KB Financial Group Korea Figure Skating Championships 2025 (January 2-5)

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KB Financial Group Korea Figure Skating Championships 2025
Uijeongbu Indoor Ice Skating Rink
2-5 January 2025

Event Schedule, Entry and Starting Order
KSU Official Announcements [Geoblocked, VPN required]
English translated thread below, courtesy of skating korea Twitter/X account (@skatingkor)


Criteria
ISU Judging System
ISU rules for the 2024/25 season apply.

Eligibility
1. Figure Skating athletes registered for the 2024/25 season
  • Singles: KSU Level 5 or higher
  • Ice Dance/Pairs: Junior-or-higher-level approved teams by the KSU
2. ISU Junior competition age-eligible skaters or older for the 2025/26 Season
(Age 13 or higher by 1 July 2025, i.e. born in 1 July 2012 or prior)

Specific Assignments
Singles:
  • ISU Senior Rules: KSU Level 5-6 Skaters
  • ISU Junior Rules: KSU Level 7-8 Skaters
Pairs
  • ISU Senior Rules: KSU Senior level-approved teams, age-eligible for ISU Senior Pairs competitions
  • ISU Junior Rules: KSU Junior level-approved teams, age-eligible for ISU Junior Pairs competitions
Ice Dance
  • ISU Senior Rules: KSU Senior level-approved teams, age-eligible for ISU Senior Ice Dance competitions
  • ISU Junior Rules: KSU Junior level-approved teams, age-eligible for ISU Junior Ice Dance competitions
2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships and World Junior Figure Skating Championships Team Selection
Selection will be based on the criteria below and the results of this event, followed by KSU review:
  • Age-eligible for ISU Senior / Junior competitions (Age 16 / 13 or higher by 1 July 2025)
  • Met ISU Technical Minimums for Worlds / Junior Worlds prior to registration for the Korea Figure Skating Championships 2025 (Refer to ISU Communication 2577)
  • The same skater/team CANNOT participate in BOTH the 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships AND the World Junior Figure Skating Championships
Number of entries for Korea
  • 2025 ISU World Figure Skating Championships: 2 Men, 3 Women, 1 Pair, 1 Ice Dance
  • 2025 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships: 3 Men, 2 Women, 1 Pair, 1 Ice Dance

2025/26 Season National Team Selection Round 2
The total scores from the 2024 Korean Figure Skating President's Cup Ranking Competition and KB Financial Group Korea Figure Skating Championships 2025 are added to determine the Korean National Team for the 2025/26 season.
  • National Team: 5 Men, 9 Women, 1 Ice Dance
  • Reserve Team: 3 Men, 9 Women
  • Youth Team: 2 Men, 8 Women
Eligibility: ISU Junior or Senior competition age-eligible skaters
(Priority given to skaters that place Top 3 in the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in the previous year, so long as the skater has participated in both the 2024 Korean Figure Skating Ranking Competition AND Korea Figure Skating Championships 2025)

Schedule and Streams
*Note: JGP-eligible Junior skaters will compete under ISU senior rules on Days 3/4, as KSU Level 7s, a prerequisite for JGP selection eligibility, enters the skater for the Senior event in the Korea Figure Skating Championships

There will be livestreams on the FIGURE KOREA YouTube account covering the event.
For Day 3, KBS2 Live will broadcast select portions of the event on 15:10 - 16:45 KST (06:10 - 07:45 UTC+0) [Geoblocked, VPN required]
For Day 4, KBS1 Live will broadcast select portions of the event on 15:30 - 17:00 KST (06:30 - 08:00 UTC+0) [Geoblocked, VPN required]
The YouTube livestream will likely end once the competition starts airing on TV due to broadcasting rights.

Day 1: Junior Short Program (2025.01.02 12:45 KST, or 03:45 UTC+0)
Day 2: Junior Free Skating (2025.01.03 11:15 KST, or 02:15 UTC+0)
Day 3*: Senior Short Program / Rhythm Dance (2025.01.04 11:45 KST, or 02:45 UTC+0)
Day 4*: Senior Free Skating / Free Dance (2025.01.04 11:40 KST, or 02:40 UTC+0)

*There may some last-minute changes to scheduling due to withdrawals

The KSU video archive blog listed below will include footages of each skater from the event

KSU Video Archive Blog
Link

Results
KSU Figure Skating (geoblocked, VPN required)
SkatingScores
 

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Day 1: Junior Short Program (2025.01.02 12:45 KST, or 03:45 UTC+0)

Entry
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Here we go with the Korean fired chicken commercial again! :) 2 posts from the President's Cup Ranking competition thread from just over 1 month ago: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...-cup-ranking-competition-nov-28-dec-1.112335/
OK, I've gotten very hungry after watching the bb.q Korean fried chicken ad over & over. :lol:
Yes you saw correctly. KB Financial Group was a sponsor for Yuna Kim since 2006 (as well as short track speed skaters Sang-hwa Lee and Suk-hee Shim later), and continued to be a sponsor for the KSU afterwards.

Also, the current president of the KSU is the chairman of Genesis BBQ Co. another sponsor for the KSU.

Hence the commercials :)
 

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Junior Men's total scores as displayed on screen:

1 Yunho (on screen) or Younho Lee 163.62 2 (52.31 SP) 1 (111.31 FS incl. video games music! enjoyed this program :)) ETA - his FS starts in the livestream replay at 49:30 OR you can watch the 3rd video on this page: https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223713500113
2 Aaron Kim 156.75 1 (54.45) 2 (102.30 FS to Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre)
3 Taehwan Kim 140.96 3 4 (94.36 FS to Coldplay's Fix You)
4 Yesung Kim 140.65 4 3 (95.23 FS to Dive by Ed Sheeran)
5 Jaewook Chung 135.14 5 5 (91.72 FS to Otoñal)
6 Yehwang Choi 106.10 6 6
7 Yechang Choi 96.26 7 7
WD Jiwoo Lee

Final results (scroll down for FS protocols): https://x.com/skatingkor/status/1875093497663152249
 
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Junior Women final top 7:

GOLD Gyuri Lee #이규리 165.60 1 1 (109.51) #6
SILVER Hyowon Lee #이효원 159.34 3 2 (107.19) #4
BRONZE Minsong Kim #김민송 155.49 2 4 (101.94) #5
Doi Cha #차도이 154.49 5 3 (102.58) #2
Hayoung Park #박하영 147.73 6 5 (95.99) #1
Subeen Jeong #정수빈 141.79 4 7 (89.67) #3
Gaeun Kim 134.87 8 6 (90.12)

Full results (scroll down fpr FS protocols): https://x.com/skatingkor/status/1875079757563678884

Final group of 6 free skates in reverse order of SP placement (start order # listed above): https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223713753232

@EdgyIceMarks feel free to post screenshots of the official full results & scores like you did for the Junior SP.

ETA from the Dance Hall thread:
Lim/Quan have a new RD [practice run through video]
 
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Day 2 Results

Junior Men

Free Skating
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Final Results
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Junior Women

Free Skating
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Final Results

Day 3 Competition Starting Order

Senior Men
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Senior Women
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*WD Yui Kim

Senior Ice Dance
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Day 3 Schedule
*Competition schedule updated then reverted back on the KSU website, will update if there are any further changes
  • Senior Men Short Program (2025.01.04 11:45-12:57 KST, or 02:45-03:57 UTC+0)
  • Senior Women Short Program (2025.01.04 13:12-16:36 KST, or 04:12-07:36 UTC+0)
  • Senior Ice Dance Rhythm Dance (2025.01.04 16:51-17:04 KST, or 07:51-08:04 UTC+0)

KSU YouTube Livestream
*The portion of the Senior Men and Women's event that is delay-broadcasted will not be livestreamed.

KBS2 Broadcast (Delayed for Group 2 Men, Live for Groups 4-5 Women)
2025.01.04 15:10-16:45 KST, or 06:10-07:45 UTC+0
[KBS2 Live Link]
*This KBS2 YouTube stream doesn't seem to be geoblocked, even though the KBS2 Live service is.

KSU video archive blog
Competition footage is uploaded on the KSU video archive blog
[Blog Link]
 
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Senior Women Short Program Scores up to Group 3

KBS2 Broadcast about to begin
(Delayed broadcast for Group 2 Men, Live broadcast for Groups 4-5 Women)

Thank you! I think the Women Groups 4-5 are also delayed - I was watching the KSF YT channel and they showed Group 4's warm up but then put up a graphic so you couldn't see the video but could hear the audio when the warm-up ended.
 

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Yeah I suspect the KBS2 Broadcast will skip over most or all of the Group 4 Women
Yes, they definitely did skip over most of them. They showed Seoyeong Wi who wound up in 4th at the end of group 4, Seoyoung Kim who was in 5th after the first 3 groups, then started with Ahsun Yun whose score was good enough for 2nd with 61.90, then Haein Lee who pushed Ahsun out of 2nd with 63.98... My guess is that Yujae Kim is in 1st, but that's just based on who was in Group 4 that they haven't shown. Yuseong Kim is now in 3rd with 63.08.
 

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70.43 for Chaeyeon Kim!

And they showed the top 3 - can confirm Yujae Kim is now in 2nd with 67.76; just Jia Shin left to skate.

ETA - clean program for Chaeyeon, btw - I'll be curious to see her protocols because I'd have expected her to be higher.

LMAO - Jia Shin also goes clean and is in 1st with 72.08...

I'm sorry, KSF, but that's a joke. You do not score your reigning World SENIOR bronze medalist with a clean program lower than your reigning World JUNIOR silver medalist.

Oh, they're showing Yujae now.
 
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It looks like the KSF YT channel has gone live again during the ice resurfacing, so I think that's where we'll find Lim/Quan's RD in a little bit.
 

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Day 3 Results

Senior Men

Short Program
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Protocols

Senior Women

Short Program
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Protocols

Senior Ice Dance

Rhythm Dance
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Protocols

Day 4 Competition Starting Order
Reverse Order of Short Program Standings
*Senior Women regrouped from 5 groups to 4 (5+6+6+6)

Day 4 Schedule
*Updated with changes made by the KSU
  • Senior Men Free Skating (2025.01.05 12:07-13:23 KST, or 03:07-04:23 UTC+0)
  • Senior Women Free Skating (2025.01.05 13:35-16:29 KST, or 04:35-07:29 UTC+0)
  • Senior Ice Dance Free Dance (2025.01.05 16:44-17:17 KST, or 07:44-08:17 UTC+0)

KSU YouTube Livestream
*The portion of the Senior Men and Women's event that is broadcasted by KBS1 will not be livestreamed by the KSU

KBS1 Broadcast
(Delayed Broadcast for Group 2 Men and Part of Group 3 Women, Live Broadcast for Group 4 Women)
2025.01.05 14:55-16:40 KST, or 05:55-07:40 UTC+0 [Schedule Updated]

KSU video archive blog
Competition footage is uploaded on the KSU video archive blog
[Blog Link]
 
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ETA - clean program for Chaeyeon, btw - I'll be curious to see her protocols because I'd have expected her to be higher.

LMAO - Jia Shin also goes clean and is in 1st with 72.08...

I'm sorry, KSF, but that's a joke. You do not score your reigning World SENIOR bronze medalist with a clean program lower than your reigning World JUNIOR silver medalist.
I haven't watched, but do you think it's unfair that Jia's in first? It seems totally plausible to me, if both were clean. Avoiding silly medals-based reputation judging is good, isn't it?
 

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KSU video archive blog
Competition footage is uploaded on the KSU video archive blog
[Blog Link]
Lim /Quan's new RD: https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223714633439

Women's SP videos on this page are the final group of 5: https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223714621632
Order is Ahsun Yun (61.90 6th; 3Lz+3T, 2A, 3F!), Haien Lee (63.98 4th; 3Lz+3Tq, 2A, 3F!<), Yuseong Kim (63.08 5th; 2A, 3Lo, 3F+3T<), Chaeyeon Kim (70.43 2nd; 2A, 3Lz+3T, 3F!q), Jia Shin (72.08 1st; 3Lz+3T, 2A, 3F!).

Penultimate SP group - Jeongyul Hwang (51.57 18th), Gunhee Kim (54.99 17th), Yujae Kim (67.76 3rd; 3A+, 3Lz+3Tq, 3Loq), Nayeon Ko (61.26 7th; 3Lz+3Tq, 2A, 3F!), Seoyoung Wi (58.57 9th; 3Lzq+3T<, 2A, 3Loq): https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223714588746

3rd to last SP group: https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223714552706
Jiyu Kim (58.26 10th), Hyorin Lee (57.15 12th), Seojin Youn (59.58 8th; 3Lzq+3T<, 2A, 3F!<), Seoyoung Kim (55.80 14th), Jiyu Huh (55.8513th).
 
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Men's SP group 1: https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223714472525
Order: Donghan Yu, Juheon Lim, Younghyun Cha, Hangil Kim, Habin Choi

Men's SP group 2: https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223714485615
Order: Hyungyeom Kim, Jaekeun Lee, Sihyeong Lee, Junhwan Cha, Minkyu Seo

Junior Men FS second group of 4 (Yesung Kim bronze-REVISED from 4th, Taehwan Kim 4th-REVISED from 3rd, Yunho Lee gold, Aaron Kim silver): https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223712462308

Junior Men REVISED final standings:
1 Yunho (on screen) or Younho Lee 163.62 2 (52.31 SP) 1 (111.31 FS)
2 Aaron Kim 156.75 1 (54.35) 2 (102.40 FS)
3 Yesung Kim 141.21 4 (45.98 SP) 3 (95.23 FS)
4 Taehwan Kim 140.96 3 4 (94.36 FS)
5 Jaewook Chung 135.14 5 5 (91.72 FS)
6 Yehwang Choi 106.43 6 6
7 Yechang Choi 96.26 7 7
Junior Men's total scores as displayed on screen:

1 Yunho (on screen) or Younho Lee 163.62 2 (52.31 SP) 1 (111.31 FS incl. video games music! enjoyed this program :)) ETA - his FS starts in the livestream replay at 49:30 OR you can watch the 3rd video on this page: https://blog.naver.com/iceball_/223713500113
2 Aaron Kim 156.75 1 (54.35) 2 (102.40 FS to Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre)
3 Taehwan Kim 140.96 3 4 (94.36 FS to Coldplay's Fix You)
4 Yesung Kim 140.65 4 3 (95.23 FS to Dive by Ed Sheeran)
5 Jaewook Chung 135.14 5 5 (91.72 FS to Otoñal)
6 Yehwang Choi 106.10 6 6
7 Yechang Choi 96.26 7 7
WD Jiwoo Lee

Final results (scroll down for FS protocols): https://x.com/skatingkor/status/1875093497663152249
ETA that Yesung Kim's 3rd place Junior Men's FS score stayed the same; it was his 4th SP score that was adjusted from 45.42 to 45.98 that gave him the bronze medal. Also, Yehwang Choi's Junior Men's SP score rose to 34.76 from 34.43.
 
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KBS broadcast started with Seojin Youn who scored 108.26 for 4th in the FS and 4th overall with 167.84.

Jiyu Huh was the last skater in Group 2 and she scored 115.87 in the FS, 171.72 overall, so it would appear that two other women in Group 3 who were behind Youn have moved ahead of her overall.

Waiting on Nayeon Ko's score during the final warm-up group.

ETA - Nayeon scored 118.14 in the FS, 179.40 overall, not sure of her placement.

Here we go with the last group!
 

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Clean? skate for Ahsun. I'm sure, based on the way the tech panel behaved yesterday, that there will be a few q or < calls, and maybe a !, but should be good enough to secure a spot on the Worlds team.

ETA 126.25 in the FS; 188.15 overall and into 1st!
 

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