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Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...
: 성경화; born July 20, 1965), also spelled as Seong Gyeong-hwa, is a South Korean
team handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...
player and Olympic champion. She received a silver medal with the South Korean team 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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."1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Handball"
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Her team won the gold medals at the
1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...
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Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 ...
."1988 Summer Olympics – Seoul, South Korea – Handball"
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* * 1965 births Living people South Korean female handball players Olympic handball players of South Korea Handball players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for South Korea 20th-century South Korean women {{SouthKorea-handball-bio-stub