2012 Korea Open

The 2012 Korea Open was a women's professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the ninth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2012 WTA Tour. It took place in Seoul, South Korea between 17 and 23 September 2012.

Seeds

 * 1 Rankings are as of September 10, 2012

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
 * 🇰🇷 Hong Hyun-hui
 * 🇰🇷 Lee So-ra
 * 🇰🇷 Han Sung-hee

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
 * Eleni Daniilidou
 * 🇫🇷 Caroline Garcia
 * 🇺🇸 Jamie Hampton
 * 🇰🇿 Sesil Karatantcheva

Withdrawals

 * 🇰🇿 Ksenia Pervak
 * 🇺🇸 Sloane Stephens

Retirements

 * 🇷🇺 Maria Kirilenko (back injury)
 * 🇷🇺 Nadia Petrova (back injury)

Seeds

 * 1 Rankings are as of September 10, 2012

Other entrants
The following pairs received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
 * 🇰🇷 Choi Ji-hee / 🇰🇷 Jun Nam-yeon
 * 🇰🇷 Han Sung-hee / 🇰🇷 Lee So-ra

Singles
This was Wozniacki's first title of the season which ended a 13-month drought. It was also her 19th career title.
 * 🇩🇰 Caroline Wozniacki defeated 🇪🇪 Kaia Kanepi 6–1, 6–0

Doubles

 * 🇺🇸 Raquel Kops-Jones / 🇺🇸 Abigail Spears defeated 🇺🇿 Akgul Amanmuradova / 🇺🇸 Vania King 2–6, 6–2, [10–8]