
Mother: "The joyful expression on my daughter's face I've never seen before"
Kyodo News focused on the story of Hong Yu-sun, a fourth-generation Korean-Japanese player on the Korean women's basketball team who won the gold medal at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
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Hong Yu-soon, a fourth-generation Korean living in Japan, was born and raised in Japan, then joined a Korean professional team and was selected as a member of the national team.
Kyodo News introduces the story… Mother: "The joyful expression on my daughter's face I've never seen before"
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Byeong-gyu = On the 26th, Japanese media paid attention to Korean-Japanese player Hong Yu-sun of the Korean women's basketball team, who beat Japan's strong pursuit and won the gold medal at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
On the 27th, Kyodo News reported the story of Hong Yu-soon, a fourth-generation Korean living in Japan, who won a gold medal as a member of the Korean women's national basketball team in Japan, where she was born.
The news agency introduced that Hong Yu-soon was from Ikuno-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, and that she participated in the Asian Games in Japan, where she was born and raised, as a member of the Korean national team and contributed to the team's victory.
After graduating from high school in Osaka, he entered Osaka Sangyo University, but said, "I want to compete as my own nationality," so he joined a Korean professional team and won the Rookie of the Year award in the 2024-2025 season.
Hong Yu-sun smiled brightly to the news agency, saying, "I'm happy to stand on this stage (Asian Games). I'm grateful to be selected (for the Korean national team)."
The news agency reported that Hong Yoo-sun played as a substitute in the final and recorded one assist. After victory was decided, he hugged his teammates and expressed joy, saying, "His path was not wrong."
Hong Yoo-soon's mother Shimi Shim, who watched the game with her relatives in the audience, said with excitement, "It went really well. I was happy to see my daughter's happy expression that I had never seen before."

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