South Korea's best-ever medal haul, led by figure skater Kim Yu-Na's golden debut at the Vancouver Games, has prompted its president to promise more cash for winter sports, its Olympic chief says. It is also boosting a third straight bid by the South Korean resort of PyeongChang for the Winter Olympics, this time the 2018 edition, South Korean Olympic Committee president Park Yong-Sung said. South Korea won a record 14 medals, including six golds, six silvers and two bronzes -- all in skating events, but none on snow and in sliding events. But for the first time since South Korea got on the Winter Olympic medal board in 1992, golds were won in sports other than short-track speed skating. Apart from 19-year-old women's world figure skating champion Kim, long-track skaters won the titles -- Mo Tae-Bum in the men's 500m, Lee Seung-Hoon in the men's 10,000m and Lee Sang-Hwa in the women's 500m. 'We got a message from the president of our country (Lee Myung-Bak),' Park told selfnews. 'He promised to us, 'Okay we're doing our best and we will invest more money in winter sports,'' he added. 'We'll win the battle in Durban, South Africa,' Park quoted the state president as saying. In Durban, in July 2011, the International Olympic Committee will choose the 2018 Winter Olympic host from a shortlist of three - PyeongChang, the German city of Munich and Annecy in France. 'Asia is the only continent where winter sports are growing very fast. In other continents, winter sports are more or less stagnant,' Park said. Japan remains Asia's only nation which has hosted the Winter Olympics. Park said South Korea's curling team can qualify for the next Games in Sochi, Russia, in 2014, by investing 'more money, time and effort.' For skiing events, they must launch a junior training programme to catch up with the world, he warned. Before the Vancouver Games, 29 out of South Korea's 31 Winter Olympic medals were won by short-track skaters and two by long-track skaters in short distances. Now Park noted that long-track skaters were beginning to shine in longer distances with Lee Seung-Hoon winning the 10,000m gold and the 5,000m silver. He said the success of Kim Yu-Na, South Korea's first ever world class figure skater, would spark a boom in her sport as Pak Se-Ri did in golf by winning five majors, Park said. 'Yu-Na gives great momentum for the future of figure skating in our country.' 