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Song Yong-hun

North Korean speed skater

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 10, 2024
Entity authorityQ73410102 ↗
Source-derived summary

Song Yong-hun (born 13 January 1972, Korean: 송용훈) is a North Korean speed skater. He competed in two events at the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Song Yong-hun” enters the record as north Korean speed skater. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Song, Yong-hun and North can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 1988—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Song, Yong-hun and North.
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Why this record matters

“Song Yong-hun” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Song, Yong-hun and North provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 10, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q73410102. The first chronological checks are 1972 and 1988.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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 “Song Yong-hun” 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.