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Huh Soon-young

South Korean handball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ1953677 ↗
Source-derived summary

Huh Soon-Young (Korean: 허순영; born September 28, 1975 in Busan) is a South Korean handball player (line player) who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

In 1996 she was part of the South Korean team which won the silver medal. She played one match. Four years later she was part of the South Korean team which finished fourth in the 2000 Olympic tournament. She played all seven matches and scored 17 goals. In 2004, she won the silver medal with the South Korean team again. She played all seven matches and scored 21 goals.

She also won a gold medal for South Korea at the 1998 Asian Games.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Huh Soon-young” is south Korean handball player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Soon-young, South and Korean, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 1996, 2000, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-09-28. For this dossier, Soon-young, South and Korean is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “south Korean handball player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1953677. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1996, 2000 and 2004.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Huh Soon-young” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.