Korea Open (badminton)

The Korea Open (Korean: 코리아오픈) is an annual badminton event that is commonly held in Seoul, South Korea. The tournament used to be known as Korea Open Super Series because it became one of the BWF Super Series tournaments beginning with 2007. BWF categorised Korea Open as one of the seven BWF World Tour Super 500 events in the BWF events structure since 2018.^[1]

Korea Open

Official website
Founded	1991; 34 years ago (1991)
Editions	31 (2024)
Location	Mokpo (2024) South Korea
Venue	Mokpo Indoor Stadium (2024)
Prize money	US$420,000
Men's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	Lu Guangzu (singles) Leo Rolly Carnando Bagas Maulana (doubles)
Most singles titles	4 Peter Gade
Most doubles titles	6 Lee Yong-dae
Women's
Draw	32S / 32D
Current champions	Kim Ga-eun (singles) Jeong Na-eun Kim Hye-jeong (doubles)
Most singles titles	3 Bang Soo-hyun
Most doubles titles	4 Chung So-young Gil Young-ah Yang Wei
Mixed doubles
Draw	32
Current champions	Chen Tang Jie Toh Ee Wei
Most titles (male)	6 Kim Dong-moon
Most titles (female)	7 Ra Kyung-min
Super 500
Arctic Open Australian Open Hong Kong Open Hylo Open Indonesia Masters Japan Masters Korea Open Malaysia Masters Thailand Open
Last completed
2024 Korea Open

The tournament has been organised since 1991. However, the 1998 tournament was canceled due to the poor economic conditions in the country.^[2]

History of host cities

City[3][4][5]	Years host
Seoul	1991–1999, 2006–2015, 2017–2018
Jeju City	2000–2001
Yeosu	2002, 2023
Incheon	2003, 2005, 2019
Chungju	2004
Seongnam	2016
Suncheon	2022
Mokpo	2024

Past winners

Year	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	Mixed doubles
1991	Wu Wenkai	Huang Hua	Kim Moon-soo Park Joo-bong	Chung So-young Hwang Hye-young	Park Joo-bong Chung Myung-hee
1992		Tang Jiuhong			Thomas Lund Pernille Dupont
1993	Joko Suprianto	Bang Soo-hyun	Huang Zhanzhong Zheng Yumin	Chung So-young Gil Young-ah	Thomas Lund Catrine Bengtsson
1994	Ardy Wiranata		Peter Axelsson Pär-Gunnar Jönsson		Michael Søgaard Gillian Gowers
1995	Hariyanto Arbi	Susi Susanti	Rexy Mainaky Ricky Subagja	Gil Young-ah Jang Hye-ock	Thomas Lund Marlene Thomsen
1996	Kim Hak-kyun	Bang Soo-hyun			Park Joo-bong Ra Kyung-min
1997	Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen	Ye Zhaoying	Ha Tae-kwon Kang Kyung-jin	Ge Fei Gu Jun	Liu Yong Ge Fei
1998	No competition
1999	Fung Permadi	Zhou Mi	Eng Hian Flandy Limpele	Huang Nanyan Yang Wei	Kim Dong-moon Ra Kyung-min
2000	Peter Gade	Camilla Martin	Lee Dong-soo Yoo Yong-sung	Chung Jae-hee Ra Kyung-min
2001			Ha Tae-kwon Kim Dong-moon	Huang Nanyan Yang Wei
2002	Lin Dan	Zhang Ning		Gao Ling Huang Sui
2003	Kenneth Jonassen	Mia Audina		Ra Kyung-min Lee Kyung-won
2004	Xia Xuanze	Zhang Ning	Luluk Hadiyanto Alvent Yulianto	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen
2005	Peter Gade	Jun Jae-youn	Jens Eriksen Martin Lundgaard Hansen	Lee Hyo-jung Lee Kyung-won	Lee Jae-jin Lee Hyo-jung
2006	Bao Chunlai	Lu Lan	Tony Gunawan Candra Wijaya	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	Nova Widianto Liliyana Natsir
2007	Lin Dan	Xie Xingfang	Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae	Gao Ling Huang Sui	Zheng Bo Gao Ling
2008	Lee Hyun-il	Zhou Mi	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng	Du Jing Yu Yang	Lee Yong-dae Lee Hyo-jung
2009	Peter Gade	Tine Rasmussen	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Chien Yu-chin Cheng Wen-hsing
2010	Lee Chong Wei	Wang Shixian	Jung Jae-sung Lee Yong-dae	Cheng Shu Zhao Yunlei	He Hanbin Yu Yang
2011	Lin Dan	Wang Yihan		Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2012	Lee Chong Wei	Wang Shixian	Cai Yun Fu Haifeng	Tian Qing Zhao Yunlei	Xu Chen Ma Jin
2013		Sung Ji-hyun	Ko Sung-hyun Lee Yong-dae	Wang Xiaoli Yu Yang	Zhang Nan Zhao Yunlei
2014	Chen Long	Wang Yihan	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Bao Yixin Tang Jinhua
2015		Sung Ji-hyun	Lee Yong-dae Yoo Yeon-seong	Nitya Krishinda Maheswari Greysia Polii
2016	Qiao Bin	Akane Yamaguchi		Jung Kyung-eun Shin Seung-chan	Ko Sung-hyun Kim Ha-na
2017	Anthony Sinisuka Ginting	P. V. Sindhu	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	Huang Yaqiong Yu Xiaohan	Praveen Jordan Debby Susanto
2018	Chou Tien-chen	Nozomi Okuhara	Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe	Misaki Matsutomo Ayaka Takahashi	He Jiting Du Yue
2019	Kento Momota	He Bingjiao	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	Kim So-yeong Kong Hee-yong	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Sapsiree Taerattanachai
2020	Cancelled[note 1]
2021	Cancelled[note 2]
2022	Weng Hongyang	An Se-young	Kang Min-hyuk Seo Seung-jae	Jeong Na-eun Kim Hye-jeong	Tan Kian Meng Lai Pei Jing
2023	Anders Antonsen		Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	Feng Yanzhe Huang Dongping
2024	Lu Guangzu	Kim Ga-eun	Leo Rolly Carnando Bagas Maulana	Jeong Na-eun Kim Hye-jeong	Chen Tang Jie Toh Ee Wei

1. This tournament, originally to be played from 8 to 13 September, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.
2. This tournament, originally to be played from 31 August to 5 September, was later cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic in South Korea.^[6]

Performances by nation

As of the 2024 edition

	Nation	MS	WS	MD	WD	XD	Total
1	China	12	13	3	15	10	53
2	South Korea	2	9	14	13	12	50
3	Denmark	7	3	4		3	17
4	Indonesia	4	1	6.5	1	2	14.5
5	Japan	1	2	1	1		5
	Malaysia	3				2	5
7	Chinese Taipei	2			1		3
8	India		1	1			2
9	Sweden			1		0.5	1.5
10	Hong Kong		1				1
	Netherlands		1				1
	Thailand					1	1
13	England					0.5	0.5
	United States			0.5			0.5
	Total	31	31	31	31	31	155