[Edaily Starin Reporter Gim Ga Yeong ] SBS has unveiled its broadcast team lineup for the 2026 Nagoya Asian Games, which open on the 19th of next month. Bae Seong-jae, Jeong Woo-young, and Jeon Hyun-moo will serve as commentators.

On the 13th, an SBS spokesperson stated, “Following soccer, Bae Seong-jae is set to cover a wide range of major events, including badminton featuring Ahn Se-young, swimming with Kim Woo-min, and judo. He will also host the coverage of the opening ceremony.”
In particular, the men’s soccer team—which is aiming for its fourth consecutive Asian Games title—has been drawn into a group with Qatar and Saudi Arabia in the group stage, a group dubbed the “Group of Death.” As such, Bae Seong-jae plans to cover the most intense matches right from the start of the tournament.
In addition to his main sport, baseball, Jeong Woo-young is set to captivate viewers with his commentary on fencing and basketball. He will cover not only the national baseball team—which is aiming for its second consecutive title following Hangzhou—but also fencing, a traditional “gold mine” for the Asian Games, ensuring his voice accompanies every moment when gold medals are won. Jeong Woo-young will also cover the men’s basketball team, which is led by a star-studded lineup including Lee Hyun-joong and Yeo Jun-seok as they aim for their first gold medal in 12 years.
Jeon Hyun-moo, taking on the challenge of sportscasting once again following the Paris Olympics and the CONCACAF World Cup, is ready to deliver both excitement and emotion through his coverage of the high jump—featuring Woo Sang-hyuk—and archery. Having settled for silver medals in the last two Asian Games, this is Woo Sang-hyuk’s chance to win his first Asian Games gold medal. Jeon Hyun-moo will cover the men’s high jump final, where Woo Sang-hyuk’s challenge is on the line, as well as the recurve archery events, where gold medals are concentrated toward the end of the competition.
SBS’s strategy is to maintain public interest throughout the Games by featuring Bae Seong-jae and Jeong Woo-young for prime-time coverage of major events, while also incorporating Jeon Hyun-moo into a three-person commentary team. Since each of the three commentators brings a unique style that appeals to different viewership demographics, the network expects this approach to broaden the audience base for each sport.
Following the commentators who worked together at the previous Hangzhou Asian Games—swimmer Park Tae-hwan, badminton player Lee Yong-dae, table tennis player Hyun Jung-hwa, and baseball player Lee Dae-ho—this year’s event welcomes new additions to the commentary team, including fencer Koo Bon-gil, archer Lim Dong-hyun, judoka Song Dae-nam, and taekwondo athlete Kim So-hee.
The backgrounds of these new additions are a topic of conversation in their own right. Koo Bon-gil has won three Olympic gold medals and a record six Asian Games gold medals, while Lim Dong-hyun is an archery legend with two Olympic gold medals and four Asian Games gold medals to his name. Song Dae-nam is a gold medalist from the 2012 London Olympics, and Kim So-hee is a gold medalist from the 2016 Rio Olympics. For women’s volleyball, Asian Games gold and silver medalist Han Song-i has newly joined the team, while in soccer, Park Ju-ho and Jang Ji-hyun, and in baseball, Lee Dae-ho and Lee Sun-cheol will form two-person commentary teams to enhance the depth of coverage. SBS Sports has stated its intention to secure a landslide victory in the ratings competition for this tournament.
The broadcast visuals will also be different. CG elements—such as archery heat maps, swimming distance gauges, and real-time score trackers—have been significantly enhanced to help even first-time viewers follow the action, and athlete profile cartoons will be newly presented as animations created using AI techniques in collaboration with a graphic artist.
SBS’s Nagoya Asian Games special variety show, “Nagoya Galgoya,” features the unlikely duo of casters Bae Seong-jae and Jeon Hyun-moo as they team up to document a special journey from the front lines of the Asian Games. Alongside South Korean sports legends, the show looks back on the glorious and moving moments of past Asian Games. It presents the one-and-only Asian Games reality show that captures both inside and outside the broadcast booth—including the commentary team’s authentic daily lives, the untold stories of medalists, and the intense excitement on-site—all of which couldn’t be conveyed during live broadcasts.
Meanwhile, the 2026 Nagoya Asian Games will run for 16 days, beginning with the opening ceremony on the 19th of next month and concluding on October 4. At the Hangzhou Asian Games three years ago, the South Korean national team secured 42 gold, 59 silver, and 89 bronze medals, finishing third overall. At the Hangzhou Asian Games, China (201 gold, 111 silver, 71 bronze) and Japan (52 gold, 67 silver, 69 bronze) took first and second place, respectively.