The 2022 Korean Curling Championships (branded as the 2022 KB Financial Korean Curling Championships), Korea's national curling championships, were held from June 11 to 17 at the Jincheon National Training Centre in Jincheon, South Korea. The winning teams on both the men's and women's sides became the Korean National Teams for the 2022âÂÂ23 curling season. They will represent Korea at the 2022 Pan-Continental Curling Championships and later the 2023 World Women's Curling Championship and 2023 World Men's Curling Championship if they reach qualification. Both the men's and women's events were played in a round robin format which qualified four teams for the playoffs.
Heading into the event, the men's side was headed by the champions of the 2021 Korean Curling Championships, Gyeongbuk Sports Council, which is skipped by Kim Chang-min. During their reign as national champions, the team won gold at the 2021 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships and finished in eighth place at the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship with a 6âÂÂ6 record. They also represented Korea at the 2021 Olympic Qualification Event, finishing in eighth with a 2âÂÂ6 record. Expected challengers for the 2022 national title were Gangwon Province (Jeong Yeong-seok), Gyeonggido Curling Federation (Kim Jeong-min), Seoul City Hall (Jeong Byeong-jin) and Kyungil University (Lee Jae-beom).
The 2021 national champions Gangneung City Hall (Kim Eun-jung) lead the women's field of the 2022 championship. After a silver medal finish at the 2021 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, the team reached the final of the 2022 World Women's Curling Championship where they lost to Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni. At the 2021 Olympic Qualification Event, Gangneung City Hall were successful in qualifying for the 2022 Winter Olympics as they finished the event with a 7âÂÂ3 record. At the Games, they placed eighth with a 4âÂÂ5 record. Gyeonggi Province (Gim Eun-ji) and Chuncheon City Hall (Ha Seung-youn) challenged for the 2022 title.
On the men's side, Seoul City Hall's team of Jeong Byeong-jin, Lee Jeong-jae, Kim Min-woo and Kim Tae-hwan won the title, defeating the reigning national champions Gyeongbuk Sports Council 7âÂÂ3 in the final. Seoul City Hall went 6âÂÂ1 through the round robin before winning both of their playoff matches to secure the title. The last time the team won the national title was in 2018.
The women's title was won by Chuncheon City Hall's Ha Seung-youn rink which defeated Gyeonggi Province's Gim Eun-ji 7âÂÂ4 in the final. Ha, with Kim Hye-rin, Yang Tae-i and Kim Su-jin previously won the national title with former skip Kim Min-ji, who transferred to Gim's Gyeonggi Province team in March of 2022. Chuncheon City Hall went 5âÂÂ1 in the round robin and then knocked off the reigning champions Gangneung City Hall's Kim Eun-jung team in the semifinal.
The teams are listed as follows:
Final round-robin standings
All draws are listed in Korea Standard Time ().
Saturday, June 11, 14:00
Sunday, June 12, 9:00
Sunday, June 12, 19:00
Monday, June 13, 14:00
Tuesday, June 14, 9:00
Tuesday, June 14, 19:00
Wednesday, June 15, 14:00
Thursday, June 16, 14:00
Thursday, June 16, 19:00
Friday, June 17, 14:00
The teams are listed as follows:
Final round-robin standings
All draws are listed in Korea Standard Time ().
Saturday, June 11, 9:00
Saturday, June 11, 19:00
Sunday, June 12, 14:00
Monday, June 13, 9:00
Monday, June 13, 19:00
Tuesday, June 14, 14:00
Wednesday, June 15, 9:00
Thursday, June 16, 9:00
Thursday, June 16, 19:00
Friday, June 17, 9:00