Hong Ok-song (born February 16, 1984) is a

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...

judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...

ka. Participating in the half-middleweight category (63 kg) at the

2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

, she finished seventh, having lost the repechage semi-final to

Driulis González Driulis González Morales (born 21 September 1973 in Guantánamo) is a Cuban judoka who has won four Olympic medals, including a gold medal in 1996. She carried the flag for her native country at the opening ceremony of the 2007 Pan American G ...

of Cuba. She won a bronze medal in the lightweight category (57 kg) at the

2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

, having defeated Khishigbatyn Erdenet-Od of Mongolia in the bronze medal match. She currently resides in

Pyongyang Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populatio ...

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1984 births Living people North Korean female judoka Judoka at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic judoka for North Korea Asian Games medalists in judo Judoka at the 2002 Asian Games Judoka at the 2006 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for North Korea Asian Games bronze medalists for North Korea Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Universiade medalists in judo FISU World University Games gold medalists for North Korea 21st-century North Korean women {{NorthKorea-judo-bio-stub