The Most Famous
HANDBALL PLAYERS from South Korea
This page contains a list of the greatest South Korean Handball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 304 Handball Players, 2 of which were born in South Korea. This makes South Korea the birth place of the 22nd most number of Handball Players behind North Macedonia and Ukraine.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South Korean Handball Players of all time. This list of famous South Korean Handball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Yoon Kyung-shin (1973 - )
With an HPI of 38.32, Yoon Kyung-shin is the most famous South Korean Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Yoon Kyung-shin (born July 7, 1973 in Seoul) is a South Korean handball manager and former player.
2. Kang Jae-won (1965 - )
With an HPI of 35.05, Kang Jae-won is the 2nd most famous South Korean Handball Player. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.
Kang Jae-Won (born 30 November 1965) is a South Korean retired handball player and current coach for the South Korean women's national team. He was voted World Player of the Year 1989 by the International Handball Federation. Kang achieved a silver medal with the South Korean national team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as handball players born between 1965 and 1973. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living handball players include Yoon Kyung-shin and Kang Jae-won. As of April 2022, 1 new handball players have been added to Pantheon including Kang Jae-won.
