South Korea breezed past its Asian Winter Games gold medal target in northeast China this month with victories from ice and snow, an encouraging development for its up-and-coming athletes one year ahead of the Winter Olympics in Italy.

Korea defeated the home team China for the women's curling title at the Asian Winter Games on Friday, grabbing its 16th and final gold medal of the competition.

South Korea fell to the Philippines to take silver in men's curling at the Asian Winter Games in China on Friday. Led by skip Lee Jae-beom, South Korea suffered its first loss of the competition when the Philippines pulled out a 5-3 win in the gold medal game at Harbin Pingfang District

South Korea collected four more medals in speed skating at the Asian Winter Games in China on Tuesday to finish the competition with 12 medals overall. The 19-year-old rising star Lee Na-hyun led South Korea with four medals,