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Shin Soon-ho

South Korean tennis player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ62018210 ↗
Source-derived summary

Shin Soon-ho (born 8 November 1959) is a South Korean former tennis player.

Shin won three gold medals for South Korea at the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, which came in the women's doubles, mixed doubles and team event.

She also represented South Korea in Federation Cup tennis, in both 1982 and 1983, for a total of eight ties. In 2007 she served as South Korea's Fed Cup captain.

Editorial summary

“Shin Soon-ho” enters the record as south Korean tennis player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Shin, Soon-ho and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1959, 1982, 1983, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-11-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Shin, Soon-ho and South.
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Why this record matters

“Shin Soon-ho” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Shin, Soon-ho and South provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Jun 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q62018210. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959, 1982, 1983 and 2007.

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 “Shin Soon-ho” 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.