By Kang Seung-woo
Staff Reporter
South Korea's figure skating phenom Kim Yu-na will introduce her new program ``Once Upon a Dream'' to long-waiting fans.
The 17-year-old, who won the World Grand Prix Final last December in her debut year, has added the program to her current routine ``Just a Girl'' for the Hyundai Card Super Match V Superstars on Ice to be held from Sept. 14 to 16 in Seoul.
The new song, well known from the soundtrack of the musical ``Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,'' is popular, thanks to its deep lyrics and sweet melody.
``Kim, who arrives in Korea next Monday, has prepared the music for the ice show,'' her agency, IB Sports, said. ``Along with `Just a Girl,' which was shown in a gala show in Japan in July, she will perform two programs for the first time in Korea.''
The agency added: ``Kim prepared for this event thoroughly. Because she will have a stage in Korea after one year, she decided to show two new programs.''
The figure skating prodigy participated in last year's Super Match II, after topping the World Junior Championships.
During the three-day show, the South Korean plans to show each program split into the first and the second sections
Other than Kim, a host of top-level stars will rush to Korea.
Japan's Miki Ando, who beat Kim to win the gold medal at the World Championships in March, Russia's Olympic gold medal duo of Evgeni Plushenko and Alexei Yagudin, and China's Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao, who have won three world championships in pairs, are expected to excite Korean figure skating fans.
After the ice show, Kim will participate in a ceremony for the public relations ambassador of the Korean Overseas Information Service (KOIS). She then leaves for Toronto on Sept. 20.