Seo Hyang-soon (, born July 8, 1967) is a female

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

n archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

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, where she won an individual gold medal at the age of seventeen."1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Archery"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 13, 2008) She became Korea's first female gold medalist. She moved to the United States in 2004, where she teaches archery at her own archery school in

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. Her husband is Park Kyung-ho, who won a gold medal in judo at the

1986 Asian Games The 1986 Asian Games ( ko, 1986년 아시아 경기대회/1986년 아시안 게임, Cheon gubaek palsip-yuk nyeon Asia gyeonggi daehoe/Cheon gubaek palsip-yuk nyeon Asian Geim), officially known as the 10th Asian Games and the X Asiad ( ko, 제10 ...

. They have three children, their eldest daughter, Park Seong-min (박성민) is a professional golfer.

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* * * 1967 births Living people South Korean female archers Olympic archers for South Korea Archers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics 20th-century South Korean women Hyang-soon {{SouthKorea-archery-bio-stub