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Hwang Byeong-gwan

South Korean wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ61966127 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hwang Byeong-gwan (1919 – February 1952) was a South Korean wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle welterweight at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Hwang Byeong-gwan” enters the record as south Korean wrestler. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hwang, Byeong-gwan and South 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—1919, 1952, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1919-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hwang, Byeong-gwan and South.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61966127. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1919, 1952 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hwang Byeong-gwan” 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.