Korea Curling Federation Launches National Development Committee Targets Above Silver Medal at Milan Olympics
Aug 13, 2025
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The Korean Curling Federation held an innovation-vision declaration ceremony at the Olympic Hall in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 12th and announced its long-term development strategy and five innovation visions. Reflecting the innovation stance of the Korean Sports Council, the Federation has come up with an innovation plan with the goal of achieving sustainable growth in curling and enhancing international competitiveness.
First of all, as the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics are set to be held in February next year, we will focus on improving our national team's skills. Women's curling, who has already confirmed her trip to the Olympics, is looking for more than a silver medal at the Olympics. The goal of Korean curling is to secure Olympic tickets through the Olympic Qualifiers (OQE) in December for men's curling and mixed doubles. The federation launched the National Development Committee, which consists of four areas: psychology, physical, ice, and strategic analysis. Experts in each field, including mental health experts, sports psychology counselors, trainers, physical therapists, coaches, icemakers, medical and strategy analysis experts, plan to support technology, mental and strategy in all directions. In particular, the federation will establish an artificial intelligence-based behavioral pattern analysis and a personalized exercise database to automate training journal writing and document work to create an environment in which players can focus only on training.
The operation of the federation's secretariat has also been declared to change. Han Sang-ho, chairman of the Curling Federation, said, "I reflect on the past when I was complacent, passive, and biased toward administrative convenience." It aims to strengthen the professionalism of the federation's secretariat by job and introduce a digital administration system to establish a transparent and efficient operating system. It plans to expand cooperation with the World Curling Federation (WC) and play a leading role in the international arena by signing MOUs for each country. In particular, the federation's plan is to promote electronic bromes, which are being developed to develop floor curling (a form of curling developed to be done on land rather than ice), as a WC standard to popularize floor curling and increase the status of Korean curling, and to use sales revenue as funds for the federation.
In addition, the federation also proposed an innovation plan to create a life curling environment by cultivating professional curlers through a step-by-step fostering system and expanding the curling industry ecosystem and expanding the curling experience infrastructure by increasing connectivity with local federations.
Chairman Han said, `This five innovation vision is not a plan for short-term performance. It is a future plan that looks forward to the next 100 years. We will innovate the Korean Curling Federation with the heart of cutting out the affected area like surgery on a patient, opening a new era of curling from life to the world and the future together."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
