Badminton Doubles genealogy Seo Seung -jae and Kim Won -ho
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Kim Won -ho (left) and Seo Seung -jae, who connect the Korean badminton men’s doubles golden genealogy, are laughing at the Yongin Samsung Training Center in Gyeonggi -do, where the team’s training ground is located on the 4th. Since 2017-2018, those who have been breathing again from the beginning of this year have become the world’s strongest doubles.
Reporter Oh Jang -hwan
La Chapel Arena, where the 2024 Paris Olympic Badminton Mixed Semifinals were held. All four on the green coat were Korean players. At the time, the world’s second-largest mixed doubles, Seo Seung-jae (28, Samsung Life Insurance), Chae Yu-jeong (30, Incheon International Airport) and 8th Kim Won-ho (26, Samsung Life) and Jung Na-eun (25, Hwasun-gun) fought the finals. Kim Won -ho was ashamed, saying, “I was not like a player,” but he struck out his team’s senior and finished the final after focusing on the game, even though he was vomiting. Seo Seung -jae had to put his tongue out of his brother chasing the shuttlecock with a pale face.
● I was zealous enough to vomit… Strength to each other
On the 1st of this month, Seo Seung -jae and Kim Won -ho stood again on the court of Paris. The two won the men’s doubles gold medals by breathing at the world’s personal badminton championship with the next and reputation. The meeting of his brother, who had already threatened such a brother, who had already threatened such a brother, immediately led to the synergy of the international championship march and the world’s number one. In the 1990s, Park Joo-bong, Kim Moon-soo, Kim Dong-moon, Ha Tae-kwon, and Lee Yong-dae, and flexibility in the 2000s, followed the men’s doubles golden genealogy at the Samsung Training Center (STC) on the 4th.
Seo Seung -jae and Kim Won -ho took a breath for two years in 2017-2018, but from 2019 to the Paris Olympics, they worked with different partners. The two reunions were held a month ahead of the first international competition this year. Seo Seung -jae said, “I knew that I had a doubles with Wonho only when I saw the list of competitions.”
In terms of international competitions, the second (2025) is overwhelming compared to Seo Seung -jae and Kim Won -ho (2017-2018). The two have won six championship trophies, sweeping three of the four super -1000 super 1000 tournaments of the World Badminton Federation (BWF) this year. Kim Won -ho said, “At that time, I lacked a lot of experience in the big tournament, and I was young and immature, but I learned and grew up through the process.
Seo Seung -jae also emphasized his brother’s growth and said, “This year, the influence of ‘choice and concentration’ seems to be great.” Until last year, he played both male and mixed doubles, but from this year, he has only participated in men’s doubles. Seo Seung -jae said, “The health burden has been greatly reduced. Men’s doubles and mixed doubles are subtly different from the stroke itself, and this year, we are focusing only on the men’s clothes.
The two players who are winning will receive personal support from the badminton global brand Yonex from this year. After the Paris Olympics, the association has opened the way to enable individual support for players in the sponsorship of the Korean Badminton Association. It is a decision to improve the performance of the players, but there was also a concern that the association could reduce the budget for youth support as the existing corporate donations were distributed.
Seo Seung -jae and Kim Won -ho delivered donations to the association to support the development of youth athletes. The donation was followed by his brother, and his brother followed. Seo Seung -jae said, “I have been helping young athletes to exercise in a better environment when I grow up because I have been helped from childhood to come here.” Kim Won -ho said, “I had a heart, but my brother was able to follow me naturally.”
The two returned from France on the 2nd, and after a short break, they will be trained in Jincheon National Team Village. From September to October, the schedule is tightly organized from China Masters, Korea Open, and National Athletic Competition. The goal is to do our best without injury every game, but the world’s strongest doubles are already looking at the Aichi -Nagoya Asian Games in 2026 and the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. Seo Seung -jae said, “I want to prepare more thoroughly from the Asian Games to the Olympics as much as I focus on one event,” Kim said.
● Training immediately after the summit of the World Championship
Unfortunately, it was Seo Seung -jae’s 28th birthday. Seo Seung -jae said, “I was always sorry for the lack of time spending with my family, but today I try to eat out and eat out my wife and restaurants.” Kim Won -ho, who usually enjoys seafood, said, “I want to go to the beach and eat seafood.
Reporter Park Sung -guk
2025-09-05 page 26
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