2026 Korea Open Entry List and Players: An Se-young, Chou Tien-chen Lead Field
The 2026 Korea Open entry list and players feature several top badminton stars, including An Se-young, Akane Yamaguchi, Chou Tien-chen, Victor Lai, and the South Korean men’s doubles pair Kim Won-ho and Seo Seung-jae.
Officially known as the YEOSU VICTOR Korea Open 2026, the tournament will take place from November 3 to 8 at Jinnam Stadium in Yeosu, South Korea. The HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500 event offers a total prize fund of US$500,000.
The competition features five categories: men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles.
The official draw, published on October 27, 2026, confirms the seeded players, main-draw entries, and qualifying participants. However, player withdrawals and replacements may still occur before the tournament begins.
Korea Open 2026 Tournament Details
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Tournament | YEOSU VICTOR Korea Open 2026 |
| Dates | November 3–8, 2026 |
| Location | Yeosu, South Korea |
| Venue | Jinnam Stadium |
| Category | HSBC BWF World Tour Super 500 |
| Prize Money | US$500,000 |
| Events | MS, WS, MD, WD, XD |
| Official Website | BWF World Tour |
Men’s Singles Entry List and Players
Chinese Taipei’s Chou Tien-chen leads the men’s singles entry list as the top seed. Canada’s Victor Lai is seeded second, followed by Japan’s Kodai Naraoka and Indonesia’s Alwi Farhan.
India’s Lakshya Sen, Japan’s Koki Watanabe and Yushi Tanaka, and China’s Li Shifeng complete the eight seeded positions.
The field also features Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, H. S. Prannoy, Lee Cheuk Yiu, and former Korea Open contenders from across Asia.
Men’s Singles Seeded Players
| Seed | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chou Tien-chen | Chinese Taipei |
| 2 | Victor Lai | Canada |
| 3 | Kodai Naraoka | Japan |
| 4 | Alwi Farhan | Indonesia |
| 5 | Lakshya Sen | India |
| 6 | Koki Watanabe | Japan |
| 7 | Yushi Tanaka | Japan |
| 8 | Li Shifeng | China |
Other Men’s Singles Main-Draw Players
The following unseeded players are also included in the main draw:
- Chinese Taipei: Wang Yu-kai, Wang Tzu-wei, Lee Chia-hao, Wang Po-wei.
- Indonesia: Zaki Ubaidillah, Muhammad Yusuf, Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Prahdiska Bagas Shujiwo.
- Hong Kong: Jason Gunawan, Ng Ka Long, Lee Cheuk Yiu.
- China: Hu Zhe’an, Dong Tianyao, Zhu Xuanchen.
- Japan: Yudai Okimoto, Kenta Nishimoto.
- India: H. S. Prannoy.
- South Korea: Yoo Tae-bin.
- Canada: Brian Yang.
- Belgium: Julien Carraggi.
Four additional players will advance from the qualifying competition.
Men’s Singles Qualifying Players
The 16-player qualifying field includes:
- Richie Duta Richardo (Indonesia)
- Garret Tan (United States)
- Eogene Ewe (Malaysia)
- Park Sang-yong (South Korea)
- Cheam June Wei (Malaysia)
- Choi Ji-hoon (South Korea)
- Kantaphon Wangcharoen (Thailand)
- Kim Byung-jae (South Korea)
- Huang Ping-hsien (Chinese Taipei)
- Kim Hae-deun (South Korea)
- Timothy Lock (Canada)
- Minoru Koga (Japan)
- Riki Takei (Japan)
- Shogo Ogawa (Japan)
- Cho Hyeon-woo (South Korea)
- Jeon Hyeok-jin (South Korea)
Four players will secure places in the main draw.
Women’s Singles Entry List and Players
South Korea’s An Se-young headlines the women’s singles entry list as the No. 1 seed, although her participation remains uncertain because of physical concerns following the Denmark Open and French Open.
Japan’s Akane Yamaguchi is seeded second, while compatriots Tomoka Miyazaki, Hina Akechi, and Riko Gunji are also among the top eight seeds.
Home player Sim Yu-jin is seeded fourth, while Chinese Taipei’s Lin Hsiang-ti and Chiu Pin-chian complete the seeded positions.
Women’s Singles Seeded Players
| Seed | Player | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | An Se-young | South Korea |
| 2 | Akane Yamaguchi | Japan |
| 3 | Tomoka Miyazaki | Japan |
| 4 | Sim Yu-jin | South Korea |
| 5 | Hina Akechi | Japan |
| 6 | Lin Hsiang-ti | Chinese Taipei |
| 7 | Chiu Pin-chian | Chinese Taipei |
| 8 | Riko Gunji | Japan |
Other Women’s Singles Main-Draw Players
The unseeded players include:
- South Korea: Kim Min-ji, Park Ga-eun.
- India: Tanvi Sharma, Malvika Bansod, Anmol Kharb.
- Chinese Taipei: Chen Su-yu, Pai Yu-po, Tung Ciou-tong, Huang Ching-ping.
- Malaysia: Letshanaa Karupathevan, Wong Ling Ching.
- Japan: Manami Suizu.
- Indonesia: Thalita Ramadhani Wiryawan.
- China: Han Qianxi.
- Thailand: Tonrug Saeheng.
- Bulgaria: Kaloyana Nalbantova.
- Ukraine: Polina Buhrova.
- United States: Ishika Jaiswal.
- Canada: Rachel Chan.
- Hong Kong: Lo Sin Yan.
Four additional players will enter the main draw through qualification.
Women’s Singles Qualifying Players
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| Xu Wenjing | China |
| Lee So-yul | South Korea |
| Ni Kadek Dhinda Amartya Pratiwi | Indonesia |
| Kim Ga-ram | South Korea |
| Mutiara Ayu Puspitasari | Indonesia |
| Yevheniia Kantemyr | Ukraine |
| Chloe Hoang | Canada |
| Kim Min-sun | South Korea |
Four players will qualify for the main draw.
Men’s Doubles Entry List and Players
South Korea’s Kim Won-ho and Seo Seung-jae lead the men’s doubles entry list as the top-seeded pair.
Malaysia’s Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik are seeded second, followed by compatriots Man Wei Chong and Tee Kai Wun.
China is represented among the seeds by Chen Boyang and Liu Yi, Liang Weikeng and Hu Keyuan, and Wang Chang and Xie Haonan.
Japan’s established combination of Takuro Hoki and Yugo Kobayashi is also included among the top eight seeds.
Men’s Doubles Seeded Pairs
| Seed | Players | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kim Won-ho / Seo Seung-jae | South Korea |
| 2 | Aaron Chia / Soh Wooi Yik | Malaysia |
| 3 | Man Wei Chong / Tee Kai Wun | Malaysia |
| 4 | Chen Boyang / Liu Yi | China |
| 5 | Takuro Hoki / Yugo Kobayashi | Japan |
| 6 | Hu Keyuan / Liang Weikeng | China |
| 7 | Kakeru Kumagai / Hiroki Nishi | Japan |
| 8 | Wang Chang / Xie Haonan | China |
Other Men’s Doubles Main-Draw Pairs
The other directly entered pairs are:
- Jiří Král / Ondřej Král (Czech Republic)
- Jin Yong / Jo Song-hyeon (South Korea)
- Nur Mohd Azriyn Ayub / Tan Wee Kiong (Malaysia)
- Takumi Nomura / Yuichi Shimogami (Japan)
- Lin Chia-yen / Lin Yong-sheng (Chinese Taipei)
- Keiichiro Matsui / Kenya Mitsuhashi (Japan)
- Low Hang Yee / Ng Eng Cheong (Malaysia)
- Hung Kuei Chun / Lui Chun Wai (Hong Kong)
- Chen Zhi-ray / Lin Yu-chieh (Chinese Taipei)
- Hiroki Okamura / Kyohei Yamashita (Japan)
- Haruki Kawabe / Kenta Matsukawa (Japan)
- Kang Min-hyuk / Lee Jong-min (South Korea)
- He Jiting / Ren Xiangyu (China)
- Lin Xiangyi / Zeng Weihan (China)
- Lai Po-yu / Tsai Fu-cheng (Chinese Taipei)
- Choi Sol-gyu / Goh V Shem (South Korea/Malaysia)
- Kim Gi-jung / Kim Sa-rang (South Korea)
- Eng Keat Wesley Koh / Jia Hao Howin Wong (Singapore)
- He Zhi-wei / Huang Jui-hsuan (Chinese Taipei)
- Chia Weijie / Teo Ee Yi (Malaysia)
Four more pairs will join the main draw through qualification.
Men’s Doubles Qualifying Pairs
| Pair | Country |
|---|---|
| Takuto Goto / Tsubasa Yoshida | Japan |
| Chen Bo-yuan / Lu Ming-che | Chinese Taipei |
| Achutaditya Rao Doddavarapu / Pochana Arjun Reddy | India |
| Wang Yue Hang / Xie Zewei | England/Australia |
| Jin Sung-ik / Lee Hyeong-woo | South Korea |
| Bryan Jeremy Goonting / Muhammad Haikal | Malaysia |
| Lim Tze Jian / Wong Tien Ci | Malaysia |
| Choong Hon Jian / Wong Vin Sean | Malaysia |
Four pairs will advance to the main draw.
Women’s Doubles Entry List and Players
Japan’s Yuki Fukushima and Mayu Matsumoto lead the women’s doubles competition as the top-seeded pair.
Their compatriots Rin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi are seeded second, while Bulgaria’s Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva occupy the third-seeded position.
Japan also has several other seeded combinations, including Hinata Suzuki and Nao Yamakita, Sayaka Hirota and Ayako Sakuramoto, and Rui Hirokami and Sayaka Hobara.
Women’s Doubles Seeded Pairs
| Seed | Players | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuki Fukushima / Mayu Matsumoto | Japan |
| 2 | Rin Iwanaga / Kie Nakanishi | Japan |
| 3 | Gabriela Stoeva / Stefani Stoeva | Bulgaria |
| 4 | Hinata Suzuki / Nao Yamakita | Japan |
| 5 | Sayaka Hirota / Ayako Sakuramoto | Japan |
| 6 | Rui Hirokami / Sayaka Hobara | Japan |
| 7 | Bao Lijing / Cao Zihan | China |
| 8 | Lauren Lam / Allison Lee | United States |
Other Women’s Doubles Main-Draw Pairs
The remaining pairs listed in the official draw are:
- Ririna Hiramoto / Chiharu Shida (Japan)
- Chen Su-yu / Chen Han (Chinese Taipei)
- Chen Yan-fei / Sun Liang-ching (Chinese Taipei)
- Nanako Hara / Riko Kiyose (Japan)
- Isyana Syahira Meida / Rinjani Kwinnara Nastine (Indonesia)
- Moon In-seo / Park Seul (South Korea)
- Kim Hye-jeong / Lee Yeon-woo (South Korea)
- Polina Buhrova / Yevheniia Kantemyr (Ukraine)
- Lee Seung-hee / Park Min-ji (South Korea)
- Kim Yu-jung / Lee Yu-lim (South Korea)
- Chou Yun-an / Hsieh Pei-shan (Chinese Taipei)
- Li Yijing / Wang Yiduo (China)
- Chen Fanshutian / Luo Xumin (China)
- Luo Yi / Wang Tingge (China)
- Sonali Singh / Ritika Thaker (India)
- Laudya Chelsea Griselda / Nozomi Shimizu (Australia)
The women’s doubles draw contains 24 pairs, with the eight seeded pairs receiving first-round byes.
Mixed Doubles Entry List and Players
China’s Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin lead the mixed doubles competition as the No. 1 seeds.
They are joined by fellow Chinese pairs Guo Xinwa and Chen Fanghui, who are seeded second, and Cheng Xing and Zhang Chi, the third seeds.
Japan’s Yuta Watanabe and Maya Taguchi are seeded fourth, while South Korea’s Kim Jae-hyeon and Jang Ha-jeong complete the eight seeded positions.
Mixed Doubles Seeded Pairs
| Seed | Players | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jiang Zhenbang / Wei Yaxin | China |
| 2 | Guo Xinwa / Chen Fanghui | China |
| 3 | Cheng Xing / Zhang Chi | China |
| 4 | Yuta Watanabe / Maya Taguchi | Japan |
| 5 | Akira Koga / Natsu Saito | Japan |
| 6 | Yuichi Shimogami / Sayaka Hobara | Japan |
| 7 | Zhu Yijun / Li Qian | China |
| 8 | Kim Jae-hyeon / Jang Ha-jeong | South Korea |
Other Mixed Doubles Main-Draw Pairs
The other participating pairs include:
- Chen Bo-yuan / Chen Yan-fei (Chinese Taipei)
- Haruki Kawabe / Kokona Ishikawa (Japan)
- Tonkid Saeheng / Tonrug Saeheng (Thailand)
- Xie Zewei / Zhang Yuran (Australia)
- Jin Sung-ik / Lee Seung-hee (South Korea)
- Lee Hyeong-woo / Park Seul (South Korea)
- Chen Tang Jie / Chan Wen Tse (Malaysia)
- Andika Ramadiansyah / Nozomi Shimizu (Australia)
- M. Nawaf Khoiriyansyah / Indah Cahya Sari Jamil (Indonesia)
- Wang Yue Hang / Cho Wai Lam (England)
- He Zhi-wei / Sun Liang-ching (Chinese Taipei)
- Gao Jiaxuan / Wu Mengying (China)
- Ki Dong-ju / Jeong Na-eun (South Korea)
- Calvin Devereux / Desiree Toepffer (Germany)
- Lu Ming-che / Chou Yun-an (Chinese Taipei)
- Hyun Su-min / Moon In-seo (South Korea)
- Jafar Hidayatullah / Rinjani Kwinnara Nastine (Indonesia)
- Lee Sang-min / Park Min-ji (South Korea)
- Timothy Lock / Chloe Hoang (Canada)
- Dhruv Rawat / K. Maneesha (India)
- Evgeni Panev / Gabriela Stoeva (Bulgaria)
- Hoo Pang Ron / Lai Pei Jing (Malaysia)
- Wong Tien Ci / Lim Chiew Sien (Malaysia)
The mixed doubles main draw features 31 pairs, with the top-seeded pair receiving a first-round bye.
South Korean Players at the 2026 Korea Open
South Korea will have strong representation in front of its home supporters.
An Se-young leads the women’s singles entry list, alongside fourth seed Sim Yu-jin and unseeded players Kim Min-ji and Park Ga-eun.
In men’s singles, Yoo Tae-bin is the country’s directly entered main-draw player. Several other South Korean players will compete in qualification.
The men’s doubles field is particularly important for the host nation. Top seeds Kim Won-ho and Seo Seung-jae are joined by Jin Yong and Jo Song-hyeon, Kang Min-hyuk and Lee Jong-min, and Kim Gi-jung and Kim Sa-rang.
South Korean players are also represented in women’s doubles and mixed doubles, including Kim Hye-jeong, Jeong Na-eun, Kim Jae-hyeon, and several younger players.
Indonesian Players at the 2026 Korea Open
Indonesia will compete across all five categories, with several experienced players and emerging talents included in the official draw.
In men’s singles, fourth seed Alwi Farhan leads the Indonesian entries, joined by Anthony Sinisuka Ginting, Zaki Ubaidillah, Muhammad Yusuf, and Prahdiska Bagas Shujiwo. Richie Duta Richardo will compete in qualification.
In women’s singles, Thalita Ramadhani Wiryawan is included in the main draw, while Ni Kadek Dhinda Amartya Pratiwi and Mutiara Ayu Puspitasari enter qualification.
Indonesia’s women’s doubles representatives include Isyana Syahira Meida and Rinjani Kwinnara Nastine.
In mixed doubles, Jafar Hidayatullah and Rinjani Kwinnara Nastine are joined by M. Nawaf Khoiriyansyah and Indah Cahya Sari Jamil.
No Indonesian men’s doubles pair is listed in the official draw.
Korea Open 2026 Entry List Updates and Withdrawals
The Korea Open 2026 player list may change before the competition begins.
The official draw used for this article was published on October 27, 2026. Although the seeded players and main-draw positions have been announced, late withdrawals and replacements remain possible.
An Se-young Participation Update
As of October 31, An Se-young remains listed as the top seed in the supplied official draw. However, her participation is uncertain following physical problems during the recent European tournaments.
According to Yonhap News Agency, An said on October 27 that she would assess her physical condition before deciding whether to compete in Yeosu.
She experienced ankle problems during the Denmark Open and played with her right knee taped at the French Open.
Her participation should therefore not be considered confirmed until her final decision is known.
Other Reported Withdrawals
Several prominent players who were initially entered are missing from the October 27 draw following reported withdrawals.
In men’s singles, these include defending champion Jonatan Christie, Kunlavut Vitidsarn, and Anders Antonsen.
In women’s singles, Chinese players Wang Zhiyi, Chen Yufei, and Han Yue have also reportedly withdrawn.
These withdrawals help explain why some familiar names are absent from the final seeded positions.
The official draw supplied for this article does not separately identify wildcard allocations, so no unverified wildcard entries have been added.
Where to Find the Official Korea Open 2026 Players and Draw
The latest tournament information, including the full entry list, draws, schedules, and results, is available through the official BWF World Tour Korea Open 2026 page.
The competition begins on November 3, with the finals scheduled for Sunday, November 8, 2026.
Entry list last checked: October 31, 2026. Main-draw and qualifying information is based on the official draw printed October 27, 2026. Entries and seedings are subject to change.
