Teams from South Korea and North Korea both won their first matches of the mixed doubles table tennis event at the Paris Olympics on Saturday.

Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin sailed into the quarterfinals by defeating Dang Qiu and Nina Mittelham of Germany 4-0 (12-10, 11-9, 12-10, 11-6) in the round of 16 at South Paris Arena 4 in Paris.

Lim and Shin, seeded third, needed just 34 minutes to dispatch the Germans.

The South Koreans went down 3-0 in the opening moments before scoring the next four points. At 10-10, Shin and Lim each picked up a winner to close out the game.

Lim clinched the second game with an acrobatic forehand winner. South Korea staged another rally in the third 커뮤니티 game and knocked off the Germans 11-6 in the fourth game.

The mixed doubles was added to the Olympic program in Tokyo three years ago, and it is considered South Korea’s strongest of the five table tennis events in Paris.

South Korea’s last table tennis medal is the silver in the men’s team event in 2012.

In Sunday’s quarterfinals, Lim and Shin will face No. 7 seed Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs of Romania.