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Ri Un-gyong

North Korean footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ23416448 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ri Un-gyong (born 19 November 1980) is a North Korean former football midfielder who played for the North Korea women's national football team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. At the club level, she played for Wolmido.

International goals

See also

North Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics

References

External links

Ri Un-gyong – FIFA competition record (archived)

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ri Un-gyong". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ri Un-gyong” as north Korean footballer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Un-gyong, North and Korean.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 2008, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980-11-19. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Un-gyong, North and Korean providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ri Un-gyong”, the useful work is to connect “north Korean footballer” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23416448. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2008 and 2020.

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 “Ri Un-gyong” 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.