My Take
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.
Overview
Cho Gue-sung (Korean: 조규성; born 25 January 1998) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as striker for Danish Superliga club Midtjylland and the South Korea national team.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Cho Gue-sung
- Name (Japanese)
- 曺圭成
- Reading
- 不明
- Born
- January 25, 1998 (age 28)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Tiger
- Origin
- Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 188 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Anyang Technical High School
- University
- Gwangju University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/whrbtjd/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9B%B9%E5%9C%AD%E6%88%90
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.