List of Famous people born in South Korea

Hwang Jung-woon is a South Korean badminton player. Hwang who came from Suncheon, graduated from the Dong-a University, and later joined the Samsung Electro-Mechanics team. He was part of the Korean national junior team that won the silver medal at the 2004 Asian Junior Championships in the boys' team event, also won the bronze medal in the singles event. At the same year, he also competed at the World Junior Championships, clinched the silver medal in the mixed team event and a bronze medal in the singles event. Hwang represented his country at the 2006 Asian Games, and helped the team won the men's team silver medal. He also claimed the men's singles title at the 2006 Mongolia Satellite tournament.

Park Kyung-hoon is a South Korean male badminton player. In 2017, he helped the Korean national team compete at the 2017 Sudirman Cup and won that tournament.

Min Kyu-dong is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and producer. He made his feature directorial debut in horror film Memento Mori (1999), followed by romantic comedies All for Love (2005) and All About My Wife (2012), queer films Antique (2008) and In My End Is My Beginning (2013), melodrama The Last Blossom (2011), and period drama The Treacherous (2015).

Lee Sung-Jin is a recurve archer from South Korea. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, winning in the women's team event at the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2005 she became the women's individual recurve champion at the World Archery Championships and achieved the world number one spot for female recurve archers in the World Archery Rankings. In 2016 the World Archery Federation named her as the ninth best Olympic archer in the history of the Games.

Song Min-soon is a Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea and serves on the Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification Committee (2008–present). Previously, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2006–2008) and the National Security Adviser (2006) of the Republic of Korea. As a career diplomat for over thirty years, Song has participated in numerous negotiations, including the Korean Peace Talks in Geneva (1999), the revised Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) negotiations between the United States and Korea, and the Six-Party Talks on the North Korean nuclear program as Chief Negotiator of South Korea, thus spearheading the landmark Joint Statement of September 19, 2005.

Park Kyung-mo is an archer from South Korea. He has won gold medals at the three major World Archery Federation events and is a former world number one.

Ko Gi-Hyun is a South Korean short track speed skater. Ko remains the second youngest individual gold medalist after Tara Lipinski in the history of the Olympic Winter Games, winning gold in women's 1500 m event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, at 15 years and 277 days old.

Lee Yu-rim is a South Korean badminton player who was educated at Janggok High School in Shiheung. She was a gold medallist in the girls' doubles event at the 2017 Asian Junior Championships and the World Junior Championships with Baek Ha-na. Among their key results in senior events, Lee and Baek reached the final at the 2017 Macau Open, but lost to Chinese pair Huang Yaqiong and Yu Xiaohan with the score 10–21, 17–21.

Lee Hae-chan is a South Korean politician who served as Leader of the Democratic Party of Korea from 2018 to 2020. He also served as Prime Minister of South Korea from 2004 to 2006. He is currently serving in his seventh term in the National Assembly.