Park Hee-jun (karateka)

Park Hee-jun (born March 29, 1994) is a South Korean senior male karateka.

The 24-year-old became the first South Korean to win an Asian Games medal in kata, a non-sparring event in which practitioners demonstrate the Japanese martial art’s patterns and movements.

[1] Since karate became an Asiad medal sport, South Korea has won eight bronze medals over the last six Asian Games, all in kumite, a sparring discipline.

[2] He placed third in the Karate1 Premier League's 2014 Jakarta tournament.

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