Cha Hyo-sim (, born 15 July 1994) is a North Korean

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player. In July 2018, she and South Korea's

Jang Woo-jin Jang Woo-jin (born 10 September 1995) is a South Korean table tennis player. He plays for Mirae Asset Daewoo table tennis team. Career Junior Jang started playing international matches from the South Korean cadet boys' team in 2009 – Bahrain J ...

made history when they won the mixed doubles title at the 2018 Korea Open, beating China's Sun Yingsha and

Wang Chuqin Wang Chuqin ( simplified Chinese: 王楚钦; born 11 May 2000) is a Chinese table tennis player who is currently world rank number 2 in ITTF and is the top left hand player. Most recently, he was the silver medallist in Men's singles, gold medall ...

3–1 in the final before a huge crowd. It was their first tournament as partners, and the first international event won by an inter-Korean pair.

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1994 births Living people North Korean female table tennis players Universiade medalists in table tennis FISU World University Games silver medalists for North Korea Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games World Table Tennis Championships medalists Asian Games medalists in table tennis Asian Games bronze medalists for North Korea Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade 21st-century North Korean women 21st-century North Korean people {{NorthKorea-tabletennis-bio-stub