Kim and Jeong lost 8-5 to Norway’s Kristin Skaslien and Magnus Nedregotten on Sunday (Korea time) at the Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, in their ninth and final round-robin game.
They ended the tournament 3-6.
Ten teams are competing in mixed doubles, with one man and one woman per team. After a round-robin in which each team plays the others once, the top four advance to the semifinals and final to decide the medals.
Kim and Jeong opened with five straight losses before turning things around. On Saturday, they beat medal contender the United States, then followed with wins over Estonia and Canada for a three-game streak. Even so, they were already unable to catch the top four regardless of the result against Norway.
South Korea started strongly in the finale, scoring one in the first end and two in the second for a 3-0 lead. Norway pulled within 3-2 with two in the third, but South Korea added points in the fourth and fifth to go up 5-2.
The momentum shifted late. Norway used a power play in the sixth end — a rule that lets the team with last stone reposition stones to set up a big score — and tied it by scoring three to make it 5-5.
In the seventh, South Korea called for a power play but committed a hog line violation on the final stone, giving up two points and falling behind 7-5. South Korea could not recover in the eighth, allowing one more point to finish the 8-5 loss.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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