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figure skating grand prix, the king-of-the-king final, opens tonight (8th).
Shin Ji-ah and other women's singles and ice dance are aiming for medals with the largest number of participants ever.
This is reporter Ha Seong-ryong.
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Three Korean players compete in the junior final women's singles, and 14-year-old Shin Jia, who appeared like a comet this year, is attracting the most attention.
Shin Ji-ah, who reached the podium for the first time in 16 years since Yuna Kim with the silver medal at the World Championships last April, won gold and silver medals in the two Grand Prix events, placing 3rd overall and qualifying for the final where 6 players competed.
Her personal best is also the third highest, so a medal is expected 17 years after Yuna Kim's victory in 2005.
In the national selection match that ended last weekend, she reached the top by beating prominent seniors such as Kim Ye-rim and Yoo Young.
[Jia Shin/Junior National Figure Skating Representative: (In the last game) I will show you a 'clean game' by complementing the parts that were disappointing.
Fighting!]
16-year-old Kim Chae-yeon and 13-year-old youngest Kwon Min-sol, who won silver and bronze medals side by side in two Grands Prix, will also challenge for medals in the first final of her life.
Korean-Canadian Lim Hae-na and Chinese-Canadian Ye Kwan, who won the first ever bronze medal at the Grand Prix last season with the Gangnam Style program in Ice Dance, will also be on the final stage for the first time.
This season, after winning gold and silver medals with the Dance of Death program, we will challenge a new history in the King of Kings.
[Im Hae-na/Ice Dance Junior National Team: We'll win a medal and get the highest score in the finals.]
In the senior final, Kim Ye-rim is the only female single player to compete.
(Video coverage: Gong Jin-goo, Video editing: Park Chun-bae)