Chung Hyun-Sook (born 3 January 1952) is a former

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 from

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. She won a gold medal in the Women's Team event at the

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in 1973. She became vice-president of the Republic of Korea Table Tennis Association in February 2013.

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