Moon Dae-sung

Moon Dae-sung
Personal information
Nationality:	South Korea
Birthday:	3rd September 1976
Place of birth:	Incheon
Size:	191 cm

Korean spelling
Hangeul	문대성
Hanja	文 大成
Revised Romanization	Mun Dae-seong
McCune- Reischauer	Mun Taesŏng
See also : Korean name

Moon Dae-sung (born September 3, 1976 in Incheon ) is a South Korean Taekwondoin and politician .

Sports

Mon Dae-Sung became Taekwondo world champion in 1999 and Asian champion in 200, each in the weight class over 84 kg. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens he won the gold medal in the over 80 kg class and defeated the Greek Alexandros Nikolaidis in the final .

From August 2008-2016, Moon Dae-sung was a member of the Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

politics

In the 2012 general election , he was elected to the South Korean parliament as a member of the Saenuri party . The following week he came under fire for plagiarism in his 2007 doctoral thesis . After a two-year investigation by Kookmin University , it officially announced that Moon had fraudulently obtained his doctoral degree and seriously plagiarized it.

Web links

• Moon Dae-sung in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Philip Hersh: Second plagiarizing IOC member leaves political post , in: Chicago Tribune of April 20, 2012 (English).
2. ↑ Jung Min-ho: IOC may reopen Moon's case , in: The Korea Times of March 3, 2014 (English).

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Moon is the family name here, Dae-sung is the first name.