Park Hee-jun is a South Korean senior male karateka. The 24-year-old became the first South Korean to win an

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medal in

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, a non-sparring event in which practitioners demonstrate the Japanese martial art’s patterns and movements. Since karate became an Asiad medal sport, South Korea has won eight bronze medals over the last six Asian Games, all in kumite, a sparring discipline. He placed third in the

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's 2014 Jakarta tournament.

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Living people South Korean male karateka Asian Games medalists in karate Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Karateka at the 2018 Asian Games Karateka at the 2022 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Karateka at the 2020 Summer Olympics 1994 births 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-karate-bio-stub