My Take
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.
Overview
Shin Yu-bin (Korean: 신유빈; born 5 July 2004) is a South Korean table tennis player. Her father, a former table tennis player, operated a table tennis club, and she naturally started playing the sport around the age of four or five. She showed early promise and was regarded as a table tennis prodigy during her elementary school years, joining the national reserve team.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Shin Yu-bin
- Name (Japanese)
- 申裕斌
- Reading
- 不明
- Born
- July 5, 2004 (age 21)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Monkey
- Origin
- Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- table tennis player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shin_yubin_/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B3%E8%A3%95%E6%96%8C
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.