Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (South Korea)

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10	8th	13

South Korea took 85 athletes to the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the powerlifter Jong-Chul Park . The most successful participants in the team were the boccia player Keon-Woo Park and the marksman Ji-Seok Lee , each with two gold medals. The athlete Suk-Man Hong won the most precious metal with one gold and three bronze medals.

Medals

Medal table

Medal table South Korea
space	sport				total
1	shoot	4th	3	2	9
2	Archery	2	1	-	3
3	Boccia	2	-	1	3
4th	Table tennis	1	2	4th	7th
5	athletics	1	-	3	4th
6th	Cycling	-	1	1	3
	swim	-	1	1	2
8th	Powerlifting (bench press)	-	-	1	1
Total		10	8th	13	31

Participants by sport

Boccia

Women

• Heui-Za Park
• Bo-Mee Shin *

Men

• Ho-Won Jeong *, 1 × (Mixed Individual, Class BC3)
• Dong-Hwan Chin
• Jin-Han Kim
• Cheol-Hyeon Kwon
• Jae-Suk Park
• Keon-Woo Park *, 1 × (mixed individual, class BC3)

| * Team competitions

Mixed team class BC3 (gold )
Ho-Won Jeong Keon-Woo Park Bo-Mee Shin

Archery

Women

• Ki-Hee Kim *
• Ran-Sook Kim *
• Hwa-Sook Lee *, 1 × (recurve single standing)

Men

• Seong-Pyo An
• Tae-Sung An
• Hyun-Kwan Cho
• Sung-Kil Go
• Young-Joo Jung *
• Hong-Kyu Kim
• Hyun-Ju Kweon
• Hong-Gu Lee *
• Ouk-Soo Lee
• Young-Bae Yoon *

| * Team competitions

Women Recurve Open (Silver )	Men Recurve Open (Gold )
Ki-Hee Kim Ran-Sook Kim Hwa-Sook Lee	Young-Joo Jung Hong-Gu Lee Young-Bae Yoon

Soccer (teams of 5)

Men
Suk Hur Jun-Min Ji Woo-Hyun Jo Jae-Sik Kim Jung-Hoon Kim Kyung-Ho Kim Jin-Won Lee Yong-kyun Oh Meong-Su Park Jong-Suk Yoon

Judo

Men

• Jung-Min Park

athletics

Women

• Min-Jae Jeon

Men

• Duk-Ho Hong
• Suk-Man Hong *, 1 × (400 meters, class T53), 2 × (200 meters, 800 meters; class T53)
• Dong-Ho Jung *
• Gyu-Dae Kim *
• Yun-Oh Lee
• Se-Ho Park
• Byung-Hoon Yoo *

| * Relay competitions

Men 4 × 100 meters class T53 / 54 (bronze )
Suk-Man Hong Dong-Ho Jung Gyu-Dae Kim Byung-Hoon Yoo

Powerlifting (bench press)

Women

• An-Sun Son
• Jin-Kyoung Yun

Men

• Duk-Hwan Bong
• Keum-Jong Jung , 1 × (class up to 56 kg)
• Jong-Chul Park

Cycling

Men

• Hang-duk cho
• Yong-Sik Jin , 1 × (individual pursuit track, class CP3), 1 × (individual time trial road, class CP3)

Wheelchair fencing

Men

• Gi-Hong Kim

Wheelchair tennis

Women

• Young Suk Hong
• Myung-Hee Hwang

Men

• Ha-Gel Lee
• Sang-Ho Oh

rowing

Women

• Jong-Rye Lee

shoot

Women

• Young-Ee Bae
• Im-Yeon Kim , 1 × (50 meter sport rifle, class SH1)
• Yoo-Jeong Lee
• Yun-Ri Lee , 1 × (50 meter sport rifle, class SH1)
• Aee-Kyung Moon , 1 × (10 meter air pistol, class SH1)

Men

• Tae-Ho Han
• Sung-Won Jang
• Ji-Seok Lee , 2 × (10 meter air rifle standing + lying, class SH2)
• Ju-Hee Lee , 1 × (50 meter free pistol, class SH1), 1 × (10 meter air pistol, class SH1)
• Sea-Kyun Park , 1 × (50 meters Free Pistol, Class SH1)
• Jae-Yong Sim , 1 × (10 meter air rifle prone, class SH1)
• Ho-Gyoung You

swim

Women

• Na-Mi Choi
• Ji-Eun Kim

Men

• Kwon-Sik Lee
• Woo-Geun Lim
• Byeong-Eon Min , 1 × (50 meters back, class S3), 1 × (50 meters freestyle, class S3)
• Jong-Man Park

Table tennis

Women

• Hyun-Ja Choi
• Ji-Nam Jung
• Sung-Hye Moon , 1 × (individual, grade 4)
• Yu-Rim Na

Men

• Jae-Kwan Cho *, 1 × (individual, class 1)
• Kyoung-Sik Choi *
• Young-Ill Jeyoung
• Eun-Chang Jung *, 1 × (single, grade 4/5)
• Byoung-Young Kim *
• Jeong-Seok Kim
• Kong-Yong Kim *
• Kyung-Mook Kim *, 1 × (single, class 2)
• Young-Gun Kim
• Hae-Kon Lee *, 1 × (individual, class 1)

| * Team competitions

Men class 1/2 (bronze )	Men class 4/5 (gold )
Jae-Kwan Cho Kong-Yong Kim Kyung-Mook Kim Hae-Kon Lee	Kyoung-Sik Choi Eun-Chang Jung Byoung-Young Kim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )