Ahn Jung-hwan is a South Korean former football player and television personality. Ahn played for South Korea as a second striker and scored a total of three goals in two FIFA World Cups,including a golden goal against Italy. After his retirement as a footballer,he became a television host and a football commentator.
Won Woo-young is a South Korean sabre fencer. He won gold at the Olympics,World Championships,Asian Games and Asian Championships and is the first Asian fencer to win gold in the men's individual sabre event at the World Championships.
Olha Hennadiivna Kharlan,also known as Olga Kharlan,is a Ukrainian sabre fencer. She is a four-time individual women’s world sabre champion,and a four-time Olympic medalist. She has been ranked #1 in the world in women's sabre for five years:in 2012–14,2017–18,and 2019–21.
Oh Eun-seok is a South Korean retired sabre fencer. He is an Olympic and Asian Games gold medalist in the team event.
Jung Jin-Sun is a South Korean right-handed épée fencer,four-time team Asian champion,four-time individual Asian champion,three-time Olympian,and 2012 individual Olympic bronze medalist.
South Korea competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London,from July 27 to August 12,2012. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Olympics,having missed the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of its support for the United States boycott. The Korean Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1992. A total of 248 athletes,135 men and 113 women,competed in 22 sports.
Mojtaba Abedini Shourmasti is an Iranian 3-time Olympian sabre fencer. In 2012,he became the first Iranian fencer to compete in the Olympics. He won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Fencing Championships,becoming the first-ever Iranian fencer to win a medal at the World Fencing Championships.
Kim Jung-hwan is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer.
Gu Bon-gil is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer.
Kim Ji-yeon is a South Korean left-handed sabre fencer.
South Korea,officially the Republic of Korea,competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's seventeenth appearance at the Olympics. The Korean Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest ever delegation to the Games in Olympic history since 1984. A total of 205 athletes,103 men and 101 women,competed in 24 sports.
Eli Dershwitz is an American left-handed saber fencer,four-time individual Pan American champion,two-time Olympian,and the 2023 saber World Champion.
Park Sang-young is a South Korean right-handed épée fencer,three-time team Asian champion,2021 team Olympic bronze medalist,and 2016 individual Olympic champion.
The Order of Sport Merit is one of the Republic of Korea's Orders of Merit. It is awarded to those who have rendered outstanding meritorious services in the interest of improving citizen's physique and national status through sports.
Hwang Seon-a is a South Korean fencer. She earned a gold medal for South Korea in women's team sabre at the 2014 Asian Games along with teammates Kim Ji-yeon,Lee Ra-jin,and Yoon Ji-su. She participated in the women's sabre solo fencing event and the women's sabre team fencing event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Yoon Ji-su is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer.
Kim Jun-ho is a South Korean right-handed sabre fencer,three-time team Asian champion,three-time team world champion,and 2021 team Olympic champion.
The men's team sabre event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July 2021 at the Makuhari Messe,with 27 fencers from 9 nations competing.
Konstantin Lokhanov is a Russian sabre fencer living in San Diego,California,in the United States. Lokhanov was ranked # 1 in the world in cadet sabre in both 2014 and 2015. He was then a two-time World Junior Sabre Individual Champion,and ranked # 1 in the world for both those years. In 2021,he competed in sabre at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The following year,appalled by the Russian invasion of Ukraine,he defected to the United States. He said:"I decided I could no longer live in a country that kills innocent Ukrainians." He is a now member of USA Fencing.
Hongik University College of Education Affiliated High School,commonly known as Hongik University High School (홍대부고),is a high school for boys in Seongbuk District,Seoul,South Korea. It is part of a system of schools affiliated with Hongik University.
