Kim Soon-ok is a female South Korean former international

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.

Table tennis career

Kin Soon-ok won four medals at the

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. She won a

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in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) at the

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with

Chung Hyun-sook Chung Hyun-Sook (born 3 January 1952) is a former table tennis player from South Korea. She won a gold medal in the Women's Team event at the World Table Tennis Championships The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions ...

Lee Ailesa Lee Ailesa (born 15 August 1954) is a former female international table tennis player from South Korea. Table tennis career She won a gold medal in the Corbillon Cup (women's Team event) at the 1973 World Table Tennis Championships with Chung ...

and Park Mi-ra for South Korea. Two years later she won a

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in the team event. During the

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she won another silver team medal and a

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in the women's doubles with

Lee Ki Won Lee Ki Won is a female South Korean former international table tennis player. Table tennis career She won three medals at the 1977 World Table Tennis Championships. She won a silver medal in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event), a bronze med ...

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Table tennis career

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