Kim Jin-seo
| Kim Jin-seo | |
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Kim at the 2015 Junior Worlds
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| Personal information | |
| Native name | |
| Full name | Kim Jin-seo |
| Country represented |
 South Korea
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| Born |
November 29, 1996 Seoul, South Korea |
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5 1⁄2 in) |
| Coach | Shin Hea-sook |
| Former coach | Ryu Jong-hyun Kim Hoon Choi Hyung-kyung |
| Choreographer | Kenji Miyamoto |
| Former choreographer |
David Wilson Stéphane Lambiel Shin Yea-ji |
| Training locations | Taeneung |
| Began skating | 2008 |
| ISU personal best scores | |
| Combined total | 207.34 2014 CS Nepela Trophy |
| Short program | 74.43 2015 Junior Worlds |
| Free skate | 138.11 2015 Four Continents |
Kim Jin-seo (Hangul:김진서) (born November 29, 1996) is a South Korean figure skater. He is the 2012 and 2014 South Korean national senior champion and the 2012 ISU JGP Austria bronze medalist.
Kim started skating at the age of 11 as a means of physical therapy for his health. Within a few months, his then-teacher recognized Kim's potential and suggested skating seriously to try to make the Korean national team. He began competing in 2009. In the 2010–11 season, he won the junior men's title at the 2011 South Korean Championships.
In June 2011, Kim sustained an injury to his left eardrum after falling on a rainy day during an outdoor practice session. The fall resulted in 80% of his left eardrum being torn and the need for surgery to replace the lost tissues. Despite being only partially recovered from the injury, Kim participated in the qualifying event for the ISU Junior Grand Prix (JGP) series but was unsuccessful. A few months later, in January 2012, he competed in the senior men's event at the 2012 South Korean Championships. He delivered two nearly-clean programs which brought him a national title for the first time in his career with a total of 186.44.
Kim won his country's JGP selection event, held in August, earning two spots for the Junior Grand Prix. He made his junior international debut at the JGP Austria, where he won the bronze medal after being placed tenth in the short and second in the free skate with a total of 175.87. At this event, he surpassed the minimum TES for the Worlds in his nearly-clean free-skate. At the JGP Croatia, Kim had a few mistakes in the short placing in eighth, but again rebounded in the free skate to place second in the free skate. With a total of 176.43, he placed in the fourth position. After two JGP events, he competed at the NRW Trophy to get the minimum TES for the short program. He skated a clean short program and qualified for the 2013 World Championships in London, Ontario, Canada. In the short program, he landed a clean triple axel and triple lutz with connecting steps and stepped out of his triple toe-loop triple toe-loop combination. He placed 26th in the short and just missed qualifying for the free skate by a point and a half.
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