2013 Korea Open Super Series Premier

The 2013 Korea Open Superseries Premier was the first super series tournament of the 2013 BWF Super Series. The tournament was held in Seoul, South Korea from January 8–13, 2013 and had a total purse of $1,000,000. A qualification was held to fill four places in all five disciplines of the main draws.

Seeds

 * 1)  Lee Chong Wei (champion)
 * 2) 🇨🇳 Chen Long (first round)
 * 3) 🇨🇳 Chen Jin (first round)
 * 4) 🇨🇳 Du Pengyu (silver Medalist)
 * 5) 🇯🇵 Kenichi Tago (first round)
 * 6)  Nguyen Tien Minh (first round)
 * 7) 🇭🇰 Hu Yun (quarterfinals)
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Sho Sasaki (withdrew)

Seeds

 * 1) 🇨🇳 Li Xuerui (first round)
 * 2) 🇨🇳 Wang Yihan (first round)
 * 3) 🇮🇳 Saina Nehwal (quarter-final)
 * 4) 🇩🇪 Juliane Schenk (second round)
 * 5) 🇨🇳 Wang Shixian (finals)
 * 6) 🇹🇭 Ratchanok Inthanon (first round)
 * 7) 🇨🇳 Jiang Yanjiao (second round)
 * 8)  Tine Baun (second round)

Seeds

 * 1)  Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen
 * 2)  Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong
 * 3) 🇨🇳 Cai Yun / Fu Haifeng
 * 4) 🇯🇵 Hiroyuki Endo / Kenichi Hayakawa
 * 5) 🇰🇷 Kim Ki-jung / Kim Sa-rang
 * 6) 🇰🇷 Ko Sung-hyun / Lee Yong-dae
 * 7) 🇨🇳 Hong Wei / Shen Ye
 * 8) 🇯🇵 Hirokatsu Hashimoto / Noriyasu Hirata

Seeds

 * 1) 🇨🇳 Wang Xiaoli / Yu Yang
 * 2)  Christinna Pedersen / Kamilla Rytter Juhl
 * 3) 🇯🇵 Misaki Matsutomo / Ayaka Takahashi
 * 4) 🇰🇷 Jung Kyung-eun / Kim Ha-na
 * 5) 🇨🇳 Bao Yixin / Tian Qing
 * 6) 🇨🇳 Cheng Shu / Zhao Yunlei
 * 7) 🇨🇳 Ma Jin / Tang Jinhua
 * 8) 🇹🇭 Duanganong Aroonkesorn / Kunchala Voravichitchaikul

Seeds

 * 1) 🇨🇳 Xu Chen / Ma Jin
 * 2)  Tantowi Ahmad / Lilyana Natsir
 * 3)  Chan Peng Soon / Goh Liu Ying
 * 4) 🇨🇳 Zhang Nan / Zhao Yunlei
 * 5) 🇹🇭 Sudket Prapakamol / Saralee Thoungthongkam
 * 6)  Joachim Fischer Nielsen / Christinna Pedersen
 * 7)  Muhammad Rijal / Debby Susanto
 * 8) 🇵🇱 Robert Mateusiak / Nadiezda Zieba