On Friday, South Korea defeated Britain 9-7 in the women's curling event of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games, giving the country its first victory in the competition.

South Korea, led by skip Kim Eun-Jung, rallied from a 6-5 deficit to take a 9-6 lead in the ninth end and held on for a tight victory over Team Muirhead, the incumbent European champion, in the tenth end.

On Thursday, South Korea, the 2018 silver medalist, was defeated by Canada 12-7 in the opening round of the round-robin competition at the National Aquatics Centre.

The women's competition has ten countries, with the top four teams in each group after nine round-robin games qualifying for the semifinals.

Throughout the first eight ends of a tense battle, South Korea and Britain traded blows with one another. After four ends, South Korea has taken a 3-1 lead over Japan. In the fifth end, Britain and South Korea were deadlocked, only for South Korea to take the lead with two points in the sixth end.

Britain subsequently scored one point in the seventh end and two more points in the eighth end to take a 6-5 lead in the match.

The vital four points were secured in the ninth end, when Kim produced a flawless takeout with her final stone, despite the fact that four South Korean stones had already entered the house.

According to Kim Seon-Yeong, the team's captain, Britain's advantage may have been cemented after the skip. When Kim Eun-Jung failed to release her stone before it reached the hog line, it was considered a rare error for her. It cost South Korea a valuable stone as a result of the incident.

The team, on the other hand, stayed together for the ninth-end rally.

Although hog line infractions are rare, Kim Seon-Yeong cautioned that if you're concentrating too hard, you may wind up hanging on to the stone for an excessive amount of time. "No one was to blame for what happened. We needed to put that experience behind us and prepare for the next chapter."

Kim said that the team's collective short memory assisted them in getting over their opening-round loss to Canada.

"If we fixate on past failures, we will be unable to concentrate on the upcoming game," she explained. "We want to take what we can from losses and use it to propel us forward to the next game."

On Saturday, South Korea will take on the Russian Olympic Committee in its next match.