It was held at the Hwasan Ice Arena in Jeonju, South Korea on January 27–30.

The competition was open to skaters from a non-European member nation of the International Skating Union.

The countries that were eligible to send skaters to the competition were Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Chinese Taipei, DPR Korea, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Mongolia, New Zealand, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Republic of Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, United States of America, and Uzbekistan.

Unlike the other three ISU championships, each nation was allowed to enter 3 skaters/couples in each event, regardless of its skaters performance in the previous year's championships.

Skaters must have reached the age of 15 by July 1, 2009 in order to compete.