The South Korean women's curling team missed out on a medal at the 2025 World Championships, and watched the Chinese team win bronze and win the Winter Olympics

The Gyeonggi Provincial Government team, the national representative of the Korean women's curling team, lost to China at the World Championships held at home and failed to stand on the podium. The Gyeonggi Provincial Government Agency team, composed of Kim Eun-ji, Kim Min-ji, Kim so-ji, Xue Ye-eun, and Xue Yi-ji, lost 4-9 to the Chinese team composed of Jiang Jiayi, Dong Ziqi, Han Yu, and Wang Rui in the third-place match of the 2025 LGT World Women's Curling Championship held at the Gyeonggi Provincial Uighan Ice Arena on the 23rd local time.

On the 21st, in the battle between South Korea and Italy at the 2025 Women's World Curling Championships, the South Korean team is talking. From the right are Kim Min-ji, Xue Ye-eun, Kim Eun-ji, Kim so-ji

The Gyeonggi Provincial Government team, which won the bronze medal at the World Championships last year, received support from the home fans at the tournament and set a goal of winning the gold medal at the World Championships for the first time in the history of Korean curling, but failed to win a medal in the semi-finals against Canada, third and fourth place against China.

If the Gyeonggi Provincial Government team wins a medal at this World Championships, Korean curling will make history by finishing on the podium for the first time in two consecutive World Championships. Although they did not make it, the South Korean team won the 2026 Winter Olympics with the combined results of last year's and this year's World Championships, thus achieving the fourth consecutive Winter Olympics for women's curling. The best result in the history of the Korean Women's World Curling Championships was the silver medal won by the "Team Kim" team (fourth base Kim Eun-jeong) of Gangneung City Hall in 2022.

South Korea defeated Wang Rui's China 7-2 in the women's curling final of the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games last month, regaining the Asian Winter Games championship for the first time in 18 years. In the qualifiers for this World Championships, the South Korean team defeated the Chinese team again 9-6 after overtime.

In order to secure the right to participate in the 2026 Winter Olympics, the Chinese team needs to finish third and above at this World Championships. In the face of the Chinese team under pressure, the Gyeonggi Provincial Office played the first game of the back hand into an empty game (the back hand team deliberately scored zero points, and the next game continued the strategy of the back hand to keep more points).

On the 21st, during the match between the Korean team and the Italian team at the 2025 LGT World Women's Curling Championship, Kim so-ji of the Korean team was pitching

The South Korean team, which scored 1 point each with the Chinese team in 2~5 innings, drew 2-2 and ended the first half. In the second game of the sixth game, the Korean team scored two points with the play of Kim Eun-ji, and the leading Korean team lost two points again in the seventh game, and the two teams stood on the same running line at 4-4.

In the 8th game, it was the Gyeonggi Provincial Agency's back-hand game, and Kim Su-ji's two shots missed the target point one after another, and the camp was very favorable to China. Kim Eun-ji's last ball was thinner than expected, and then it was a little more deflected, and a point was stolen by the Chinese team. In the back game of the 9th game, which was 4-5 behind, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government team was also pinned down by the Chinese team, and as a result, the Chinese team once again stole 1 point and fell behind by 2 points. In the 10th game, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government team wanted to seize the opportunity to equalize or win the defeat, but in the end, the Chinese team stole three points.

This is the first time in 14 years that the Chinese women's curling team has won a medal on the stage of the World Championships. According to the rules for the curling events at the 2026 Winter Olympics, the seven places will come from the seven teams with the highest combined points at the 2024 and 2025 World Championships, with the exception of the host country, Italy, who automatically qualify for one quota place. Despite missing the last World Championships, the Chinese team relied on the outstanding performance of this competition to get 11 points, ranking seventh with Norway (5+6 points in the two editions).

The Chinese women's curling team won bronze at the World Championships and entered the Milan Winter Olympics

The teams that have qualified for the women's curling event at the 2026 Winter Olympics are Switzerland, South Korea, Sweden, Canada, Scotland, Denmark, China and the host country, Italy.