Young S. Cho (born 1 January 1934), also known as Jo Yeong-seok, is a South Korean

alpine skier Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing ( cross-country, Telemark, or ski jumping), which use skis with free-heel bindings. Whether for ...

. He competed in two events at the

1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr ...

. He attended

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in Tokyo, Japan. He participated in the university division of the 42nd (1961), 43rd (1962), and 44th (1963) Winter

Korean National Sports Festival The Korean National Sports Festival is an annual sports competition held in South Korea. For a full week each October, about 20,000 athletes representing 16 cities and provinces throughout the country compete in about 40 separate sports. The sit ...

s along with a team of fellow Koreans living in Japan. He moved to the United States in 1966, where he established a

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business. By 1975 he had become the president of the

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Korean Association. He is also a member of the

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of Denver. He is a board member of the

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. In 2021 and 2022, he organized golf tournaments to provide scholarships to children of employees at Pinehurst Country Club, where he had been a member for five decades.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jo, Yeong-seok 1934 births Living people South Korean male alpine skiers Olympic alpine skiers of South Korea Alpine skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics Waseda University alumni Sportspeople from North Gyeongsang Province 20th-century South Korean people