Who Won Physical: Asia & What To Know About The Winning Team

(*SPOILER*) After 12 episodes (across four weeks) of nerve-wrecking action and challenges that saw us tired from just watching from behind the screen, Physical: Asia has ended, and the final winning team has emerged.

If you’ve followed Physical: 100, you already know the drill: 100 contenders competing in various brutal physical challenges that made us question our own fitness. But this time, the battlefield has expanded. Now, 48 competitors from eight countries — Korea, Japan, Thailand, Mongolia, Turkiye, Indonesia, Australia, and the Philippines — battle it out in national squads of six. Each squad is anchored by a national superstar who embodies the competitive spirit of their homeland. And this time, it’s an eye-watering 1 billion won (approx S$902,621.40) on the line.

So who survived and emerged victorious? Cue the drumroll… Team Korea.

Can’t say we didn’t see that coming. It’s a well-deserved, hard-won victory, but with experience from past seasons under their belt (four of the six-member team joined Physical: 100) and it being their home turf, we’d say they had an upper hand. Not gonna lie, we were also anticipating an underdog win from either Team Mongolia or Japan.

Physical: Asia’s final game

After the Castle Conquest task saw the elimination of Team Japan, it was down to South Korea and Mongolia to face off for the final showdown.

The first event, the Wall Pushing Match, involved three rounds of pushing 100 kg, 200 kg, and 300 kg moving walls into the opponent’s territory. Mongolia won the first round with a quick strategy, but Korea took the next two after Yun Sung-bin and Kim Min-jae coordinated their pushes, securing the event. Maintaining this approach, Korea also captured the third round and won the Wall Pushing Match.

As the losing team, Mongolia chose the Iron Ball Dragging Match as the next event. All six members of each team were strapped to iron balls and had to drag them forward, aiming to reach their team’s flag within three minutes. Across five rounds, an additional iron ball was introduced each time, scaled to the team’s total combined weight. (Korea’s team weighed in at 537 kg, slightly heavier than Mongolia’s 518 kg.)

Both teams cleared all five rounds, tying in the final round with only 35 seconds left at the highest weight. In the tie-breaker, they dragged the heaviest load simultaneously in a race to the flag. In a nail-biting finish, Korea reached theirs first, winning the Final Quest 2–1 without needing to play the Infinite Tail Tag Match.

And now that the dust has settled, it’s time to meet the champions who powered their way to victory.

Meet the Physical: Asia winners: Team Korea

Kim Dong-hyun, 44

Instagram: @stungunkim

The leader of Team Korea, the 44-year-old former MMA fighter was well-known in South Korea from the get-go (especially judging from the applause he received from the other contestants during his entrance in S2) for being the first Korean to fight in the UFC. After retiring from the octagon, he has appeared on various variety shows, including Amazing Saturday and The Return of Superman, and recently, comedy reality show Great Escape: The Story. When he’s not competing or on TV, he’s a family man — he’s married and a dad of three (one son and two daughters).

After getting eliminated in Season 2, he admitted that the experience left him with ‘painful memories’ that motivated him to train harder to get in better shape. And it showed in Physical: Asia, leading the team to win the Shipwreck team challenge and the 1200kg Pillar Push task. As more proof of his grit, he recently completed the Ironman triathlon, clocking 13 hours and 45 minutes.

Kim Hae-jong (Amotti), 33

Instagram: @amottivation

The ever-smiley CrossFit enthusiast won hearts and emerged as the winner of Physical: 100 Season 2 last year, and this time, the 33-year-old is back on our screens as a Physical: Asia contestant, repping Team Korea. Even before his reality-show fame, Amotti was already a familiar face online, sharing workout routines and lifestyle content on YouTube. He’s also a Lululemon ambassador signed under Bonbooent.

A graduate of Yeungnam University’s College of Physical Education, a former Marine Corps serviceman, and a competitive bodybuilder, he really is an all-rounder. And if there’s one thing the show makes clear, it’s that there’s practically nothing he can’t do — from heaving sandbags over barriers to sprinting on treadmills and powering through brutal strength challenges. Through it all, he’s kept his bright energy, which has made him a fan-favourite. Can’t stop marvelling at his achievements and can-do spirit? Us, too.

Read more about Amotti here, including his relationship status and other fun facts (including some joyful news!)

Yun Sung-bin, 31

Instagram: @top.physical

Another fan favourite is Yun Sung-bin. The former Olympic skeleton racer made history by winning the gold medal at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, the first-ever athlete from Republic of Korea to win Olympic Winter Games gold in the sliding discipline. and has been nicknamed Iron Man because he used a custom-designed Iron Man helmet during his skeleton races, which went viral and added to his appeal. He’s also highly respected (and popular) for his insane physicality. He might be a man of few words but he’s definitely won hearts (ours too).

Jang Eun-sil, 34

Instagram: @sillllling

Our #WomanCrushWednesday has to be Jang Eun-sil, right from when she starred in Physical: 100 Season 1. The professional and former national team wrestler emitted bad b*tch energy, especially when she led her all-female squad to defeat a much larger male team in the “Moving the Sandbags / Ship-Hauling Challenge. The victory shocked competitors and produced one of the most talked-about moments of the season. We love an underdog W. 💪

In Physical: Asia, she kept that same energy, taking on the totem challenge where she and teammate Kim Min-jae held up four 135-kg pillars back-to-back for 17 minutes and 33 seconds. Off-camera, she’s also built friendships with contestants from other countries, including training with fellow wrestler, Japan’s Nonoka Ozaki.

Physical: 100/Asia isn’t the only time you can catch her on screen. She’s also appeared on entertainment shows Playing Sister S2, as Disney+’s The Zone: Survival Mission (alongside Kim Dong-hyun and Single’s Inferno star, Dex)

Choi Seung-yeon, 26

Instagram: @seungyeon_choi_

Choi Seung-yeon definitely made an impression during the Hanging Endurance challenge, where she was up against Australia’s Alexandra Coveney and the Philippines’ Mark Striegl. She may not have taken the win, but her steady grit, quiet determination, and team spirit stood out.

At just 26, she’s already a standout in the CrossFit world — both as a professional athlete and as a coach at CrossFit Limelight, one of South Korea’s top gyms. She’s consistently ranked among the top three female CrossFit athletes in Asia from 2021 through 2025, cementing her reputation as one of the strongest and most versatile competitors in the region.

The CrossFitter also recently took part in the Hyrox Seoul 2025 with Amotti where the duo earned an impressive second-place finish on the podium.

Kim Min-jae, 23

@minjaebull

Min-jae might be the youngest member at just 23 years old, but he definitely proved his mettle during the totem challenge, and during the Impenetrable Fortress challenge, hauling up the hefty 50kg crates by himself into the wagon.

The ssireum (Korean wrestling) champion made his tournament debut in 2022 and won the Grand Festival that year, making him a standout early in his competitive career. He went on to bag six major titles in 2024, including his second Grand Festival championship in three years in December. According to his Physical: Asia intro, he has the most wins in his weight class among active ssireum fighters.