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10 Best Players of the DPRK in 2024
Taekwon-Doist Wang Myong Guk
  Taekwon-Doist Wang Myong Guk at the Ryongaksan Taekwon-Do Team achieved wonderful successes in the Tenth Asian Taekwon-Do Championships and the "Taekwon-Do Tournament for World Cup--2024" of the Ninth International Martial Art Games. He was selected as one of the ten best players of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 2024.



  He was born and grew up in Waudo District, the city of Nampho. He came to be a Taekwon-Do player under systematic education.
  He took part in the 20th Taekwon-Do World Championships for the first time and won two gold medals. He also carried off gold medals at the ensuing 21st and 22nd Taekwon-Do World Championships and the Ninth and Tenth Asian Taekwon-Do Championships as well.
  In particular, he bagged four gold medals in the Tenth Asian Taekwon-Do Championships and thus contributed to enabling the DPRK team to obtain the largest number of gold medals in the history of championships. In addition, he received four gold medals at the "Taekwon-Do Tournament for World Cup--2024" of the Ninth International Martial Art Games, demonstrating the honour and dignity of the home of Taekwon-Do all over the world.
  Wang Myong Guk is training hard every day with a desire to live up to the trust and expectation of the country only with gold medals.