Kim Jin-seo

Kim Jin-seo

Kim at the 2015 Junior Worlds
Personal information
Native name 김진서
Full name Kim Jin-seo
Country represented South Korea South Korea
Born (1996-11-29) November 29, 1996
Seoul, South Korea
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in)
Coach Shin Hea-sook
Former coach Ryu Jong-hyun
Kim Hoon
Choi Hyung-kyung
Choreographer Kenji Miyamoto
Former choreographer David Wilson
Stéphane Lambiel
Shin Yea-ji
Training locations Taeneung
Began skating 2008
ISU personal best scores
Combined total 207.34
2014 Ondrej Nepela
Short program 74.43
2015 Junior Worlds
Free skate 138.11
2015 Four Continents
Medal record
Competitor for  South Korea
Figure skating: Men's singles
South Korean Championships
2012 Seoul Men's singles
2014 Goyang Men's singles
2013 Seoul Men's singles
2015 Seoul Men's singles
2016 Seoul Men's singles

Kim Jin-seo (Hangul:김진서) (born November 29, 1996) is a South Korean figure skater. He is the 2012, 2014 South Korean national senior champion and the 2012 ISU JGP Austria bronze medalist.

Career

Early career

Kim started skating at the age of 11 as a means of physical therapy for his health. Within a few months, his then teacher recognized Kim's potential and suggested skating seriously to try and make the Korean national team. He began competing in 2009. In the 2010–2011 season, he won the junior men's title at the 2011 South Korean Championships.

Junior career

2011–2012 season

In June 2011, Kim sustained an injury to his left eardrum after falling on a rainy day during an outdoor practice session. The fall resulted in 80% of his left eardrum being torn and the need for surgery to replace the lost tissues. Despite being only partially recovered from the injury, Kim participated in the qualifying event for the Junior Grand Prix Series. However, he was unable to acquire a spot for participating in the Junior Grand Prix events. A few months later, in January 2012, at the 2012 South Korean Figure Skating Championships, Kim participated in the senior men's division. He delivered two nearly-clean programmes which brought him a national title for the first time in his career with a total of 186.44.[1]

2012–2013 season

Kim won his country's JGP selection event, held in August, earning two spots for the Junior Grand Prix. He made his junior international debut at the JGP Austria, where he won the bronze medal after being placed tenth in the short and second in the free skate with a total of 175.87. At this event, he surpassed the minimum TES for the Worlds in his nearly-clean free-skate. At the JGP Croatia, Kim had a few mistakes in the short placing in eighth, but again rebounded in the free skate to place second in the free skate. With a total of 176.43, he placed in the fourth position. After two JGP events, he competed at the NRW Trophy to get the minimum TES for the short program. He skated a clean short program and qualified for the 2013 World Figure Skating Championships to be held in London, Canada.[2] In the short program, he landed a clean triple axel and triple lutz with connecting steps and stepped out of his triple toe-loop triple toe-loop combination. He placed 26th in the short and just missed qualifying for the free skate by a point and a half.

2013–2014 season

Kim started the season with the junior grand prix event in Latvia, where he placed 6th. After the event, at 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy which is the qualifying event for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Kim placed 20th in men's event. A few weeks later, Kim placed 6th in the Junior Grand Prix in Tallin with total of 184.53. At the Korean Nationals, Kim had a clean short programme and headed into free-skate as the leader. At the free-skate, he also had an almost-clean programme. With the total of 209.35, he became a two-time Korean National Champion, which meant he also qualified for the 2014 World Figure Skating Championships. At the World Championships, he had his new personal best in Short, Free-skate and Total and placed in 16th place. His total score, 202.80, at 2014 World Figure Skating Championships is first over 200 point as Korean male skater.

2014–2015 season

Kim was assigned to the 2014 NHK Trophy.[3] At the 2014 Ondrej Nepela Trophy, Kim became the first Korean male skater to break the 70-points in the short program with the score of 71.44. He placed in 9th place at both his Grand Prix assignments, At the 2015 World Junior Championships, he placed fourth in the short programs, 11th in the free skate, and ninth overall, thus securing two spots at the 2016 Junior Worlds.

2015–2016 season

Kim began his season at the 2015 Ice Star, where he won the gold medal.

Kim was assigned to the 2015 Skate Canada and the 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard in the 2015–2016 ISU Grand Prix season.

At the Skate Canada in Lethbridge, Alberta, he placed 9th overall. At the Trophée Éric Bompard in Bordeaux, France, he placed 9th in the short program before the free skate was cancelled due to the November 2015 Paris attacks.

Public life and endorsements

Kim joined 2010 Olympic ladies champion and fellow South Korean skater Kim Yuna in an ice show, the All That Skate Spring 2012, held in Seoul, South Korea on 4–6 May 2012, alongside other skaters like Shen Xue / Zhao Hongbo, Patrick Chan and Stéphane Lambiel.[4]

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2015–2016
[5][6]		 Reply 1988 OST[7]
  • "Don't Worry Dear (걱정말아요 그대)"
    by Jeon In-gwon
  • “어젯밤 이야기” (Last Night's Story)
    by by Sobangcha
    choreo. by Jinseo Kim
2014–2015
[8] 		Jazz Medley
2013–2014
[9]
2012–2013
[10]
2011–2012
  • IRIS
    choreo. by Shin Yea-ji
2010–2011
  • IRIS
    choreo. by Shin Yea-ji
2009–2010

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series (began in the 2014–15 season); JGP: Junior Grand Prix

Results[11]
International
Event 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16
Worlds 26th 16th
Four Continents 19th WD 15th TBD
GP Bompard 9th
GP Cup of China 9th
GP NHK Trophy 9th
GP Skate Canada 9th
CS Nepela Trophy 2nd
Ice Star 1st
Nebelhorn 20th
NRW Trophy 7th
Asian Trophy 2nd
International: Junior, Novice
Junior Worlds 9th
JGP Austria 3rd
JGP Croatia 4th
JGP Estonia 6th
JGP Latvia 6th
Int. Children's Games 1st N.
National
South Korean 1st J. 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 2nd
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Levels: N. = Novice; J. = Junior

Detailed results

2015–2016 season
Date Event SP FS Total
January 8–10, 2016 2016 South Korean Championships 2
68.40		 2
134.08		 2
202.48
November 13–15, 2015 2015 Trophée Éric Bompard 9
71.24		 cancelled 9
71.24
October 30 – November 1, 2015 2015 Skate Canada International 8
68.64		 10
127.20		 9
195.84
October 9–11, 2015 2015 Ice Star 1
65.26		 1
144.30		 1
209.56
2014–2015 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 2–8, 2015 2015 ISU World Junior Championships 4
74.43		 11
127.82		 9
202.25
February 9–15, 2015 2015 ISU Four Continents Championships 17
61.53		 13
138.11		 15
199.64
January 5–9, 2015 2015 South Korean Championships 1
69.27		 2
128.57		 2
197.84
November 28–30, 2014 2014 NHK Trophy 9
65.69		 9
131.51		 9
197.20
November 7–9, 2014 2014 Cup of China 9
62.46		 9
121.00		 9
183.46
October 1–5, 2014 2014 Ondrej Nepela Trophy 1
71.44		 3
135.90		 2
207.34
August 6–10, 2014 2014 Asian Figure Skating Trophy 2
69.82		 3
139.25		 2
209.07
2013–2014 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
March 24–30, 2014 2014 ISU World Championships Senior 13
69.56		 16
133.24		 16
202.80
January 3–5, 2014 2014 South Korean Championships Senior 1
72.92		 2
136.43		 1
209.35
October 9–13, 2013 2013 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Estonia Junior 10
56.25		 4
128.28		 6
184.53
September 25–28, 2013 2013 Nebelhorn Trophy Senior 30
44.92		 14
116.37		 20
161.29
August 27 – September 1, 2013 2013 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Latvia Junior 4
60.69		 6
109.28		 6
169.97
2012–2013 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
March 10–17, 2013 2013 ISU World Championships Senior 26
60.75		 –
–		 –
–
February 6–11, 2013 2013 ISU Four Continents Championships Senior 17
58.04		 19
112.97		 19
171.01
January 2–6, 2013 2013 South Korean Championships Senior 2
60.21		 2
121.13		 2
181.34
December 5–9, 2012 2012 NRW Trophy Senior 3
69.95		 7
124.03		 7
193.68
October 26–28, 2012 2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Croatia Junior 8
51.37		 3
125.06		 4
176.43
September 12–15, 2012 2012 ISU Junior Grand Prix, Austria Junior 10
49.60		 2
126.27		 3
175.87
2011–2012 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
January 4–8, 2012 2012 South Korean Championships Senior 1
62.55		 1
123.89		 1
186.44
2010–2011 season
Date Event Level SP FS Total
January 27–30, 2011 2011 International Children's Winter Games Novice 1
41.02		 1
88.01		 1
129.03
January 12–16, 2011 2011 South Korean Championships Junior 1
52.38		 1
90.18		 1
142.56

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