Lee Joon-ik is a South Korean film director and producer. He is best known for directing and producing King and the Clown (2005), one of the highest grossing Korean films of all time. Other notable films include Sunny (2008), Hope (2013), The Throne (2015), Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet (2016), and The Book of Fish (2021).
Kim Jung-nam is a South Korean former football player and manager.
Lee Hoe-taik is a former South Korean football player and manager. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest South Korean forwards of all time. He is also one of four players inducted into the Korean FA Hall of Fame.
The Korea National Ice Hockey Championship is an annual ice hockey tournament played in South Korea. Any team from South Korea could participate, as long as it is a member of the Korea Ice Hockey Association. The inaugural edition was held in 1946.
The Kyungsung FC–Pyongyang FC rivalry, commonly known as the Kyung-Pyong Football Series, was a football rivalry in the early 20th century between Seoul and Pyongyang which are currently capital of South Korea and North Korea. The clash between Korea's two biggest cities was considered as the biggest rivalry in Korea. Seoul and Pyongyang developed historical rivalry for over a century, and their football teams were no exception.
Seo In-guk is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actor. He launched his singing career after winning the talent reality show Superstar K in 2009, and made his acting breakthrough in Reply 1997 (2012). Since then, he has starred in television series Master's Sun (2013), High School King of Savvy (2014), Hello Monster (2015), Squad 38 (2016), Shopping King Louie (2016), The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (2018), Doom At Your Service (2021), and Café Minamdang (2022).
Lee Young-min was a South Korean versatile sportsman who played in football, baseball and athletics.
Bang Hyun-joo is a South Korean sport shooter who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics and in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Sim Myeong-hui is a South Korean former sports shooter. He competed in the trap event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Park Jin-joo is a South Korean actress. She starred in television series such as Jealousy Incarnate (2016) and Something About 1 Percent (2016).
Bang Sin-hye is a South Korean hurdler. She competed in the women's 100 metres hurdles at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Lee Du-yeon is a South Korean hurdler. He competed in the men's 400 metres hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Kim Hong-il was a Korean independence activist and a general of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Korean War, who later became a diplomat and politician in South Korea. Born in North Pyongan, he did his early schooling in China and Korea, and had a brief career as a teacher before his connections with the nascent Korean independence movement led to his imprisonment. He fled into exile in China in 1918, and served in the Kuomintang's National Revolutionary Army from 1926 to 1948, following which he moved to the newly independent South Korea to join the Republic of Korea Army. He commanded South Korea's I Corps during the first year of the Korean War, and was then sent to Taipei as South Korea's ambassador to the Republic of China, which by then had retreated to Taiwan. His assignment there ultimately lasted nine years. He returned to South Korea in 1960 following the April Revolution which ended the rule of Syngman Rhee, and served briefly as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Park Chung-hee junta. He ran for the National Assembly, first unsuccessfully in 1960 and 1963, and was then elected in 1967 and became a major figure in the opposition New Democratic Party.
Hung Shih-chieh is a Taiwanese badminton player. Hung who attended Kaohsiung High School, was part of the national junior team that won the bronze medal at the 2004 Asian Junior Championships in the girls' team event. Hung later educated at the Taipei Municipal Institute of Physical Education became the runner-up at the 2007 and 2008 National College Sports Games in the women's singles event. At the international senior level, she was the women's doubles champion at the 2008 U.S. Open, and the semi-finalists in the women's singles event. She represented Chinese Taipei at the 2010 Asian Games.
Kim Yeong-gi is a South Korean basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics.
O Sun-ok is a South Korean volleyball player. She competed in the women's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Bong Chang-won is a South Korean wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle lightweight at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
The All Joseon Football Tournament was the first Korean national football competition, held annually by the Joseon Sports Council or Joseon Football Association. The tournament of the Joseon Sports Council, officially recognized as a predecessor of current Korean FA Cup, was founded in 1921 and was annually held in Gyeongseong with four divisions according to age. The Pyongyang YMCA and Kwanso Sports Council also annually held a tournament with the same name for the same period (1921–1942) in Pyongyang, but the popularly known competition is Gyeongseong's tournament.
Shin Don is a 2005-2006 South Korean television series based on the novel The Phantom Queen by Park Jong-hwa that starred Son Chang-min, Jeong Bo-seok, Seo Ji-hye, Oh Man-seok and Kang Moon-young. It aired on MBC from September 24, 2005 until May 7, 2006 every weekend at 21:40 - 22:40.
Daemyeong is a 1981 South Korean television series starring Kim Dong-hoon, Kim Heung-ki, Seo Young-jin, Won Mi-kyung, Kim Sung-won and Baek Il-sub. It aired on KBS1 from January 5, 1981 until December 28, 1981 every Mondays for 52 episodes.
