Cho Gue-sung

Cho Gue-sung is one of those strikers who kind of sneaked up on everyone and then suddenly you're watching him bag a brace at the 2022 World Cup against Ghana and thinking, wait, who is this guy? At 188 cm he's an absolute presence in the box — physical, fearless, the kind of center-forward who makes defenders uncomfortable on set pieces and in tight spaces alike. The path he took — Anyang Technical High School, then Gwangju University, grinding up through the Korean football pyramid — feels genuinely earned rather than fast-tracked. Still only in his mid-twenties as of 2024 and playing in the Danish Superliga with Midtjylland, he's at exactly the stage where you're watching closely to see if the ceiling is higher than anyone initially thought. I think it is.

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Name (English)

Cho Gue-sung

Name (Japanese)

曺圭成

Reading

ちょ・ぎゅそん

Born

January 25, 1998 (age 28)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Tiger

Origin

Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Height

188 cm

Occupation

association football player

High school

Anyang Technical High School

University

Gwangju University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho%20Gue-sung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9B%B9%E5%9C%AD%E6%88%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69696822

Tags

• Gyeonggi Province
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.