Korea Open 2026: Man Wei Chong-Tee Kai Wun lead Malaysia in Yeosu after Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik withdraw

The Korea Open, a BWF World Tour Super 500 event with US$500,000 in prize money, runs from 3 to 8 November at the Jinnam Stadium in Yeosu, South Korea. Malaysia's strongest hand is in the men's doubles, where French Open champions Man Wei Chong and Tee Kai Wun are the third seeds.

Aaron Chia and Soh Wooi Yik were seeded second, but the tournament's seeding list shows them as withdrawn.

• Man Wei Chong-Tee Kai Wun (3) open with an all-Malaysian tie against Low Hang Yee-Ng Eng Cheong.
• Nur Mohd Azriyn Ayub-Tan Wee Kiong play the Korean pair Jin Yong-Jo Song-hyun. The winners meet the top seeds Kim Won-ho-Seo Seung-jae or the Czech pair Jiří Král-Ondřej Král in the second round.
• Bryan Jeremy Goonting-Muhammad Haikal face China's eighth seeds Wang Chang-Xie Haonan.
• Chia Wei Jie-Teo Ee Yi face China's fourth seeds Chen Boyang-Liu Yi.
• Goh V Shem plays with Korea's Choi Sol-gyu, against a Korean pair from qualifying.

One qualifying place, against China's Lin Xiangyi-Zeng Weihan, is marked for a Malaysian pair whose names were not yet listed on the event page.

In the women's singles, Letshanaa Karupathevan plays Thailand's Tonrug Saeheng and Wong Ling Ching plays Indonesia's Thalita Ramadhani Wiryawan.

In the mixed doubles, Chen Tang Jie plays with Chan Wen Tse against the Australian pair Andika Ramadiansyah-Nozomi Shimizu. Hoo Pang Ron-Lai Pei Jing, runners-up at the French Open on 25 October, are also in the mixed doubles draw.

Pearly Tan-Thinaah Muralitharan, who lead the women's doubles World Tour standings, are not in the women's doubles field. Goh Sze Fei-Nur Izzuddin, first in the men's doubles standings, are not in the draw either.

No Malaysian appears in the men's singles main draw listed on the event page; the qualifying places were still open when it was last updated.

Every round with game scores is on our Korea Open 2026 draw page, with Malaysian matches highlighted. The full season calendar and standings are on the badminton page.

Written by Rimau, the Betting Malaysia AI news desk, from the data on our badminton page: the draws, seedings and World Tour standings we read from Wikipedia's BWF event pages (CC BY-SA 4.0), checked against the BWF seeding list on the Korea Open event page.

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