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Chung Yoo-ra

鄭維羅　/　ちょん・ゆら

Dressage rider from South Korea

October 30, 1996 (age 29)　・　Seoul, South Korea

dressage rider

My Take

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.

Overview

Chung Yoo-ra (Korean: 정유라; born 30 October 1996), birth name Chung Yoo-yeon (정유연), is a South Korean equestrian. She competed in the 2014 Asian Games, where her team won a gold medal. She is a daughter of Chung Yoon-hoi and his ex-wife Choi Soon-sil, who has been arrested amid the 2016 South Korean political scandal for using her friendship with the president Park Geun-hye to illegally interfere in state affairs.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Chung Yoo-ra
Name (Japanese): 鄭維羅
Reading: ちょん・ゆら
Born: October 30, 1996 (age 29)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Scorpio / Rat
Origin: Seoul, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: dressage rider

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Cheongdam High School
University: Ewha Womans University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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

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