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It's time for the latest in the world of K-sports.

From the Asian Winter Games to the LPGA and an amazing career coming to an end.

For all of that, we're joined by our sportscaster Jason Lee in the studio. Hello Jason!

Hello!

With the Asian Winter games taking place all week in Harbin, China, there's obviously a lot to cover First off, what's the latest in the medal standings?

Korea will be 2nd in the gold medal standings with (15, 16 for the time being) Korea might win an extra gold medal with 1 final event that is taking place right now which I'll get into a little more later

The Asian Winter games is usually a 3-country race in the standings between Korea, China and Japan and it's no different this year. No other country won more than 3 golds.

Korea has won a lot of gold medals, and as always, a good number of them came in Short Track Speed Skating how exactly did Korea's speed skaters do?

Korea did GREAT winning 6 of the 9 gold medals in short track speed skating.

Choi Min-Jeong won 3 of those in the women's 500, 1000 and the mixed team relay.

If there's anything disappointing, Korea didn't win any medal at all in both the men's and women's relay which is very unexpected so perhaps something to work on for Milano-Cortina next year.

Also winning gold for Korea was Kim Gilli in the women's 1500m

As well as Jang Sung-Woo in the men's 1000m and Park Ji-Won in the men's 1500m

I should also mention that Korea also did great in long track speed skating as they won 3 gold medals courtesy of Lee Na-Hyun in the women's 100m, Kim Minsun in the women's 500m as well as the Women's Team Sprint.

Also on the ice, Korea might have its next Kim Yuna, but it's someone that no one expected?

Yeah, you could say that Of course we all expected Cha Jun-Hwan to win the gold medal in men's figure skating and he certainly didn't dissappoint!

The surprise however, came in the women's event where Kim Chae-Yeon upset 3-time World Champion Kaori Sakamoto to win the gold medal.

Kim had personal best scores in both her short program and free skate after nailing each of her jumps.

Kim is just 18 years old and will be making her Olympic debut next year in Milan-Cortina so hopefully this will give her the confidence to soar and also give her some more credibility with the judges by then.

And I should also mention that Mokdong Ice Rink will be hosting the Four Continents Championship next week from February 19th to the 23rd where you can see Kim Chae-Yeon, Cha Jun-Hwan as well as many other top figure skaters from around the world.

Let's slide over from the ice to the SNOW.

Korea hasn't been as successful on the SLOPES when it comes to winter sports. How did Korean athletes do this time?

Korea did claim some gold on the slopes as Lee Seung-Hun won the men's freestyle ski halfpipe event.

Also you might remember I said Lee Chae-Un was a rising star to watch for in snowboarding.

He ended up finishing 6th in the half-pipe which he was favoured to win, but the reason is that poor weather conditions cancelled the men's final and snowboarders were ranked based on their preliminary scores.

Now Korea did still win the gold medal in the halfpipe as Kim Geon-Hui was the leader after the preliminaries so not ALL was lost and Lee Chae-Un still did win a gold medal as he won the slopestyle event.

And one more snow gold for Korea as Ekaterina Avvakumova won gold in women's biathlon.

And one of the fastest rising sports in Korea when it comes to popularity is curling how did Korea fare in Harbin?

So that is the one extra gold medal that Korea could add to their total as Korea is playing China right now in the women's curling final.

Korea did beat them in the preliminaries so is the clear favourite, but they are still playing right now.

In the men's final, Korea met the Philipines in the finals and

Meanwhile Korea settled for a silver medal in the mixed doubles after losing to Japan in the final 7-6

One more sport we wanted to talk about beyond the Asian Games something Bella likes to play

Golf! There was a Korean that won the LPGA's season opening event, right?

Yes, Kim A-Lim won the season opening Tournament of Champions.

When we last talked, I mentioned she opened with a 7-under-65 for a 4 stroke lead she then rattled off rounds of 69, 67 and 67 for a 2 stroke win over Nelly Korda.

Ko Jin-Young finished in a tie for 4th place and Ko also finished 2nd in this past weekend's tournament behind Korean-American Yealimi Noh

And one last piece of news volleyball star Kim Yeon-koung has announced she will retire. What is her legacy?

Thank you very much for all the exciting sports news Jason. Have a great weekend. Thank you Bella. We'll see you next week.