Kim Su Ryon is a People’s Athlete who exalted the honour of the DPRK in sports tournaments.
Kim was born the one and only daughter of a worker’s family in Pyoksong County, South Hwanghae Province, and she studied dancing at Haeju Art School. In her final year of the middle school course, however, she was attracted to Taekwon-Do, the traditional martial art of Korea.
Everyone tried to dissuade her from Taekwon-Do practising, saying she was too old to take up the new subject, but the girl did not give up.
Kim learned basic techniques of Taekwon-Do at the Haeju Schoolchildren’s Hall, and played for the South Hwanghae Provincial Taekwon-Do Team, where she polished her techniques and distinguished herself as a promising player.
She displayed her ability as a heavyweight in the national competitions, and won four gold medals in the 70kg category of the women’s individual sparring, team pattern, team sparring and team special techniques at the ninth junior Taekwon-Do world championships in 2010.
The following year she took the first place in the 75kg category of women’s individual sparring of the 17th Taekwon-Do world championships. From then on, she won consecutive victories in her weight category.
At the 18th and 19th Taekwon-Do world championships and 7th and 8th Asian Taekwon-Do championships she fully demonstrated her ability and won a total of 14 gold medals.
During the days she was assiduous in training techniques of high degrees of difficulty, such as 180-degree spin kick and jump and double punches, which she made her special techniques.
She overpowered all the rivals in the women’s individual sparring of her weight category at the 20th Taekwon-Do world championships and won a gold medal, thus becoming a four-time world champion.
She was chosen as the top ten Taekwon-Do players of the DPRK on four occasions until 2017.
Since 2021 she has worked as a researcher at the Taekwon-Do science institute under the Korean Taekwon-Do Committee.
Kim Son Gyong
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