Kim Min-woo | |
Birth Date: | 10 January 1996[1] |
Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea |
Curling Club: | Seoul Metropolitan Government, Seoul, KOR |
Skip: | Jeong Byeong-jin |
Third: | Lee Jeong-jae |
Second: | Kim Min-woo |
Lead: | Kim Jeong-min |
Mixed Doubles Partner: | Lee Eun-chae |
World Championship Appearances: | 1 |
Pan Continental Championship Appearances: | 1 |
Kim Min-woo (; born January 10, 1996) is a South Korean curler from Namyangju.[1] Kim plays second for the Seoul Metropolitan Government team, skipped by Jeong Byeong-jin.
After serving in the Korean military,[2] Kim joined the Seoul Metropolitan Government (also known as Seoul City Hall) team, in 2022. The team won the 2022 Korean Curling Championships, giving the team the right to represent South Korea for the 2022–23 curling season.[3] [4] In their first tour event of the season, the team won the 2022 Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic.[5] The first international event the team played in was the inaugural 2022 Pan Continental Curling Championships. There, the team finished the round robin with a 6–1 record. In the playoffs, the team defeated the United States in the semifinal, but lost to Canada in the final, settling for the silver medal.[6] Their finish qualified South Korea for the 2023 World Men's Curling Championship.[7]