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Hwang Seon-woo, a new symbol of Korean swimming, competed in the representative selection and held the first race this year.
With his body growing and getting stronger, he pledged to win a gold medal at the Asian Games and a medal at the World Championship this year.
Correspondent Kim Hyung-yeol.
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Hwang Seon-woo, 19, who joined the business team after graduating from high school this year, started his first race in 2022 with a bigger and stronger physique than last year.
Without putting all his energy into it, he hit forward from the start of the 100m qualifier and was the first to hit the touchpad at 48.69.
His own Asian record of 1 sec 13 is short, but it is a good record for his third place in the world rankings this year.
[Hwang Seon-woo/Soo Young-guk Singer, Gangwon Provincial Office: I think it started well.
Since the Olympics, I have gained about 4 to 5 kg in weight, but my muscle mass also seems to have increased a bit, so my power feels a little stronger than last year.]
At the Tokyo Olympics last year, I broke the Asian record and the world junior record, and the short course in December Hwang Seon-woo, who surprised the world by winning the World Championships, vowed to write a new history at the Long Course World Championships in June and the Hangzhou Asian Games in September.
[Hwang Seon-woo: I want to feel the feeling of being on the podium at the short course world championships again at the (long course) world championships and the Asian Games.]
Haram Woo, a diving sign who placed 4th in the Tokyo Olympics, lightly climbed the 3m springboard before the national championship. I reached the top.
For the first medal at the World Championships and the first gold medal at the Asian Games, Haram Woo gave up the 10m platform this year and focused only on the springboard event.
(Video coverage: Lee Byung-joo, video editing: Kim Jong-tae, CG: Kang Yu-ra)