South Korea's women's curling national representative Gyeonggi Provincial Office team failed to overcome the barrier of Sweden at the World Championships held at home stadium. On the 20th local time, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government team composed of Kim Eun-ji, Kim Min-ji, Kim Su-ji, Xue Ye-eun, Xue Ye-ji and others lost 5-7 to the Swedish team led by Hasselboli in a match in the 9th round of the qualifiers for the 6th day of the 2025 LGT World Women's Curling Championship held at the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Ice Rink.

On the 20th, during the match between the South Korean team and the Swedish team at the 2025 LGT World Women's Curling Championships, Kim Eun-ji, the captain of the Korean team, gave instructions to his teammates.

After this match, South Korea, with a record of 7 wins and 2 losses, is tied with Canada and Sweden for second place in the qualifiers among all 13 countries. The current top spot in the qualifiers is Switzerland, who lost to Canada for the first time on the day and have an 8-1 record.

According to the rules, at the World Championships, after the qualifiers, the top two teams go directly to the semi-finals, and the third and sixth, fourth and fifth places will compete in the six-final play-offs (PO) to compete for the remaining two semi-final spots.

On the 20th, during the match between the South Korean team and the Swedish team at the 2025 LGT World Women's Curling Championships, Sweden's Hasselboli was instructing his teammates after pitching.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Government team, ranked 10th in the world, faced Sweden, led by Hasselbory, ranked 3rd in the world, and fell behind 4-6 in the seventh game. Although the 8th game came to the back game, the situation was not satisfactory, so the blank game (the back hand team deliberately created a situation of 0 points in a single game, maintained the strategy of attacking the next game and striving for more points) to seek the next chance.

In the 9th game, the back hand needed to score more points, but the Gyeonggi Provincial Agency team only scored 1 point. Then, in the final 10th game, which entered 5-6, the opponent won 1 point and finally knelt down. South Korea will play Lithuania in the 10th round of the qualifiers at 7 p.m. local time on the same day.

On the 20th, during the match between the Korean team and the Swedish team at the 2025 LGT World Women's Curling Championships, South Korean players Kim Min-ji (left) and Kim so-ji were sweeping the ice

This is the second women's world curling championship to be held in South Korea in 16 years since the 2009 World Championships in Gangneung. Based on the results of this year's and last year's World Championships, the quota places for the 2026 Winter Olympics will be allocated.

The Gyeonggi Provincial Government team, which won the bronze medal last year, is provisionally ranked fourth in the Olympic rankings, including the host country, Italy. The Gyeonggi Provincial Agency predicts that as long as they avoid being at the bottom of the rankings at this tournament, they will ensure a straight route to the Olympic finals. But not only did they secure their right to participate in the Olympics, but the Gyeonggi Provincial Agency team also set a goal of winning the gold medal at the World Championships for the first time in the history of Korean curling.