Shin Yu-bin

Shin Yu-bin is the kind of athlete who makes you feel like you wasted your entire childhood — she started swinging a paddle at age four or five because her dad ran a table tennis club, and by elementary school she was already being called a prodigy and training with South Korea's national reserve team. Born in 2004, she was barely a teenager when she started competing at serious international levels, and watching her play is almost unsettling because her reflexes and footwork seem to operate on a different clock than the rest of us. She represents that next generation of Korean table tennis that keeps the country's elite legacy alive with fresh, relentless energy, and honestly, the scary part is she's still got decades of peak years ahead of her.

Name (English)

Shin Yu-bin

Name (Japanese)

申裕斌

Reading

しん・ゆびん

Born

July 5, 2004 (age 22)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Occupation

table tennis player

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shin_yubin_/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B3%E8%A3%95%E6%96%8C

Tags

• Gyeonggi Province
• table tennis 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.