Seoul Olympic Archery Gold Medalist → Contributing to the Paris Olympics, Director Park Sung-soo dies
Aug 27, 2025
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According to the police, Park, who was staying in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, to lead the team at the 42nd University Business Competition to commemorate the Olympic championship, was found dead at his accommodation at around 9 a.m. that day. The police suspect that director Park died of a chronic disease.
Park was a star in Korean men's archery in the 1980s and 1990s. As a high school student, he was selected as a member of the national team for the 1988 Seoul Olympics. She won a silver medal in the men's individual event of the competition. In the men's team event, Jeon In-soo and Lee Han-seop collaborated for the gold medal. It was popular among female fans for its outstanding skills and good looks.
Coach Park also left a deep mark in the history of Korean archery as a leader. In 2000, he began his leadership career at Gyeyang-gu Office in Incheon. He coached the national team for the first time in 2004. At the 2012 London Olympics, he contributed to the men's individual gold medal by Oh Jin-hyuk (Hyundai Steel coach) as a coach for the men's national team. They shared the moment of winning the men's individual gold medal at the first Olympics in Korean archery history.
At the 2024 Paris Olympics last year, he contributed to five men's and women's gold medals in Korean archery as the coach of the men's national team. In particular, even when Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City Hall) won the last men's individual gold medal and completed the great achievement of the all-around championship, coach Park was leading behind Saro.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
