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- ↑ "Tak Jeong-Im Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
- ↑ "세번째 펜싱커플탄생" [Third fencing couple comes together]. Yonhap News Agency . 20 October 1992. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
- ↑ "金承杓 申成子 '백년가약'" [Kim Seung-pyo, Shin Sung-ja's 'hundred-year wedding vow']. Yonhap News Agency . 22 March 1993. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
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