Pak Yung-sun explained

Pak Yung-sun
Birth Date:	22 August 1956
Birth Place:	Sakchu County, North Pyongan
Club:	February 8 Sports Club
Show-Medals:	yes

Context:	north
Hangul:	박영순
Hanja:	朴英順
Mr:	Pak Yŏng-sun
Rr:	Bak Yeong-sun

Pak Yung-sun (; 22 August 1956  - 14 July 1987), People's Athlete and Labor Hero,^[1] was an international table tennis player from North Korea. She represented the Korean People's Army's February 8 Sports Club.^[2]

Table tennis career

From 1974 to 1981 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships.^[3]

The five World Championship medals^{[4] [5]} included two gold medals in the singles at the 1975 World Table Tennis Championships and 1977 World Table Tennis Championships.^{[6] [7]}

She is buried at the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery.^[8]

See also

• List of table tennis players
• List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

Further reading

• Book: Ham Yong-gil. Ham Jong-hyon. Table Tennis Queen in Living Memory. 2018. Foreign Languages Publishing House. Pyongyang. 978-9946-0-1758-7.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Immortal Youth . . 25 March 2016 . 18 February 2016 .
2. Book: Boggan, Tim . History of U.S. Table Tennis . VI . Chapter 33 . 2008 . 3 June 2018 . 21 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200321015016/http://www.usatt.net/articles/history08/history08_33.shtml . dead .
3. Web site: ITTF_Database - PAK Yung Sun (PRK) . . ittf.com . 17 December 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303175304/http://www.ittf.com/ittf_stats/All_events3.asp?ID=5386 . 3 March 2016 .
4. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-02-28. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
5. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
6. Book: Montague, Trevor. A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. 2004. The Bath Press. 0-316-72645-1.
7. Book: Matthews/Morrison, Peter/Ian. The Guinness Encyclopaedia of Sports Records and Results, pages 309-312. 1987. Guinness Superlatives. 0-85112-492-5. registration.
8. News: . DPRK's Sports Aces (6) - World table-tennis queen Pak Yong Sun . . Pyongyang . 3 March 2014 . 17 December 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141011173648/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2014/201403/news03/20140303-18ee.html . 11 October 2014 . dead .