Korea finished the Beijing Winter Olympics with two gold, five silver and two bronze medals, placing 14th in the gold-medal tally.
Most of Korea's medals came in short track speed skating, in which the country won two gold and three silver medals, despite a series of officiating controversies. The rest -- two silver and two bronze -- were added in speed skating.
Choi Min-jeong defended her title in the women's 1,500-m event following her gold-medal finish in Pyeongchang four years ago, and also won two silver medals in the 1,000-m and 3,000-m relay events. Hwang Dae-heon emerged as an ace, winning gold in the men's 1,500-m race and silver in the 5,000-m relay.
Korea again proved its status as a powerhouse in the sport by collecting five medals in total, although the short track speed skating team suffered from some internal woes just ahead of the Olympics in addition to the absence of key skaters who were unable to compete due to injuries.
Since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France, where short track speed skating was first included as an official sport, Korea has won the most gold medals with 26.
No medals were won in figure skating, but Cha Jun-hwan finished fifth in the men's singles, the best Olympic performance by a Korean male figure skater, while You Young came in sixth and Kim Ye-lim 10th in the women's singles, raising hopes for the future.
Korea's overall medal tally, however, was the lowest since the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in 2002 when it won two gold and two silver medals, and fell short of its haul at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in 2018, when medals came from diverse disciplines such as curling, skeleton and snowboarding.
Norway topped both the overall medal tally and the gold-medal count with 37 including 16 gold medals, showing off its strength as one of the Nordic countries.
