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| Nationality | South Korean | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 April 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gim Sung-hee (born 3 April 1983) is a South Korean former field hockey player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics. [1]
Gim Yu-sin was a Korean military general and politician in 7th-century Silla. He led the unification of the Korean Peninsula by Silla under the reign of King Muyeol and King Munmu. He is said to have been the great-grandchild of King Guhae of Geumgwan Gaya, the last ruler of the Geumgwan Gaya state. This would have given him a very high position in the Silla bone rank system, which governed the political and military status that a person could attain.
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