Chung Yoo-ra

I find Chung Yoo-ra a genuinely uncomfortable figure to write about, because her name is tied less to sport than to scandal. She was a dressage rider who took team gold at the 2014 Asian Games, but what fixed her in public memory is being the daughter of Choi Soon-sil, the woman at the heart of the 2016 South Korean political crisis that brought down President Park Geun-hye. I can't pretend the equestrian achievements stand on their own here. When I read her story, I see a young athlete whose career became inseparable from her family's abuse of power, and that overshadows everything else.

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Name (English)

Chung Yoo-ra

Name (Japanese)

鄭維羅

Reading

ちょん・ゆら

Born

October 30, 1996 (age 30)

Origin

Seoul, South Korea

Occupation

dressage rider

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rat

High school

Cheongdam High School

University

Ewha Womans University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chung%20Yoo-ra
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23994999

Tags

• dressage rider

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.