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Yoo Ok-ryul won South Korea their first medal at the World Championships in artistic gymnastics in 1991. [1] [2] In 2023 Yeo Seo-jeong became the first South Korean woman to win a World Championship medal, winning bronze on vault. [3]
| Medal | Name | Year | Event |
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 Gold | Yoo Ok-ryul |  1991 Indianapolis | Men's vault |
| Gold | Yoo Ok-ryul |  1992 Paris | Men's vault |
 Bronze | Yoo Ok-ryul |  1993 Birmingham | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Yeo Hong-chul |  1994 Brisbane | Men's vault |
 Silver | Yeo Hong-chul |  1996 San Juan | Men's vault |
| Gold | Lee Joo-hyung |  1999 Tianjin | Men's parallel bars |
| Silver | Yoo Won-chul |  2006 Aarhus | Men's parallel bars |
| Gold | Kim Dae-eun |  2007 Stuttgart | Men's parallel bars |
| Gold | Yang Hak-seon |  2011 Tokyo | Men's vault |
| Gold | Yang Hak-seon |  2013 Antwerp | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Kim Han-sol |  2017 Montreal | Men's vault |
| Bronze | Yeo Seo-jeong | 2023 Antwerp | Women's vault |
| Medal | Name | Year | Event |
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| Gold | Ryu Sung-hyun |  2019 Győr | Boys' floor exercise |
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