--- title: Olympic Ice Dancer Suffered a Serious Wardrobe Malfunction description: South Korean ice dancer Yura Min had the best response after suffering a wardrobe malfunction with her costume. canonical: https://time.com/5144356/yura-min-wardrobe-malfunction/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-12T16:16:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:50:31.694Z og:title: This Ice Dancer Masterfully Handled a Wardrobe Malfunction og:description: “I promise to sew myself in for the individual event,” Yura Min added later og:url: https://time.com/5144356/yura-min-wardrobe-malfunction/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb05e65893dc53312/6989271386f68e32476e83c8/gettyimages-916774118.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Ice Dancer Masterfully Handled a Wardrobe Malfunction twitter:description: “I promise to sew myself in for the individual event,” Yura Min added later twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb05e65893dc53312/6989271386f68e32476e83c8/gettyimages-916774118.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Olympic Ice Dancer Powered Through a Wardrobe Malfunction Like a Total Pro by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 12, 2018 4:16 PM UTC  GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 11: Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin of Korea compete in the Figure Skating Team Event - Ice Dance - Short Dance on day two of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 11, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images) GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 11: Yura Min and Alexander Gamelin of Korea compete in the Figure Skating Team Event - Ice Dance - Short Dance on day two of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 11, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by XIN LI/Getty Images)XIN LI—Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Feb 12, 2018 4:16 PM UTC Let [Olympic](http://time.com/5144266/adam-rippon-mike-pence-olympics/?xid=homepage) ice dancer Yura Min show you how to recover expertly from a wardrobe malfunction. As Min hit the ice with her partner Alexander Gamelin on Sunday, her costume became unhooked just seconds into their routine. “I was like, ‘Oh no!’” [she told _The Detroit Free Press_](https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2018/02/11/costume-malfunction-nearly-derailed-novi-residents-olympic-debut-nearly-costume-malfunction-winter-o/327002002/). “If that comes undone, the whole thing could just pop off. I was terrified the entire program.” While Min, who has dual citizenship in South Korea and the United States, could have stopped to fix the clasp, she didn’t want to lose points. “This is my first Olympics, our first program and if my top were to come down, that would have been a disaster,” she said. So she powered on and managed to avoid any more snafus by [skating](http://time.com/5143981/mirai-nagasu-olympic-team-figure-skating/?xid=homepage) with her shoulders back and head held high. Unfortunately a stiff back doesn’t make for a fluid, [graceful ice dance](http://time.com/5144173/virtue-moir-free-dance-2018-reactions/?xid=homepage) and the pair, who were competing for South Korea, placed near the bottom of the rankings, 9th out of ten competitors. Min took the wardrobe malfunction in stride, though. “I promise to sew myself in for the individual event,” [she wrote](https://twitter.com/Yuraxmin/status/962586629306122240) on Twitter on Sunday, adding a laughing emoji. “I would like to thank the audience for keeping us going until the end. Couldn’t have done it without you guys.” > [](https://twitter.com/RobTheHockeyGuy/status/962498089956225025) > [](https://twitter.com/Yuraxmin/status/962600082120962049) Min’s good-natured response should earn her points with fans, if not the [judges](http://time.com/5143796/olympics-2018-medal-count/?xid=homepage). Min may be okay with that, though. Last week she [told _The Boston Globe_](https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2018/02/09/boston-born-ice-dancer-alex-gamelin-competing-for-korea-olympics/JzmVjgRL2MzrPSAjLaqsMI/story.html) that she and her partner were at the Olympics for the experience, not the top prize. “We’re not going for a medal or anything, so there’s not that much pressure on us,” she said. “We just want to have fun.” > [](https://twitter.com/Lesdoggg/status/962503718020288514) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5144356/yura-min-wardrobe-malfunction/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5144356/yura-min-wardrobe-malfunction/"},"headline":"This Olympic Ice Dancer Powered Through a Wardrobe Malfunction Like a Total Pro","datePublished":"2018-02-12T16:16:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:50:31.694Z","description":"“I promise to sew myself in for the individual event,” South Korean ice dancer Yura Min wrote on Twitter","url":"https://time.com/5144356/yura-min-wardrobe-malfunction/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Winter Olympics","2018 Pyeongchang Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb05e65893dc53312/6989271386f68e32476e83c8/gettyimages-916774118.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb05e65893dc53312/6989271386f68e32476e83c8/gettyimages-916774118.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 2","caption":"Figure Skating - Winter Olympics Day 2","creditText":"XIN LI—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5144356/yura-min-wardrobe-malfunction/","name":"This Olympic Ice Dancer Powered Through a Wardrobe Malfunction Like a Total Pro"}}]}] ```