On December 17, the short track speed skating World Cup in Seoul continued. In the men's 500m final, two Chinese athletes, Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaoang, competed. Liu Shaoang came from behind in the game and helped the Chinese team win the first gold medal in Seoul.
Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaoang both started in the finals on the outer road, and the two ranked behind the contestants after the start of the competition. In the last lap, the situation on the field changed abruptly, and Poland's Newinski fouled and fell off the court, affecting Liu Shaolin. However, Liu Shaolin did not give up and continued to get up and enter the game.
Liu Shaoang took the opportunity to surpass and rise to the first position, and at the last moment he was almost neck-to-neck with South Korea's Xu Yila, and the slow-motion replay showed that Liu Shaoang won the gold medal by a very narrow margin. Xu Yila, Nikisha and Liu Shaolin ranked 2nd to 4th respectively.
In the end, Liu Shaoang won the gold medal with a time of 41.196 seconds, which was the first gold medal won by the Chinese team in Seoul. South Korea's Xu Yila won the silver medal in 41.205 seconds, Nikisha won the bronze medal in 41.525 seconds, and Liu Shaolin finished fourth in 52.933 seconds.