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- Jang Yeong-jin (born 9 March 1993) is a South Korean para table tennis player. He competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics where he reached the gold medal match of the men's doubles MD4 event with Park Sung-joo.
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Jang Yeong-jin's remarkable story as North Korea's only openly gay defector was covered by the international media after he published his autobiography.
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Jang Yeong-jin (Korean: 장영진; born 1957/1958) is a writer and the only openly gay North Korean defector. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Apr 24, 2017 · Jang Yeong-jin defected to South Korea in 1997. He was driven to leave the North by the difficulties of living there as a gay man
Jun 5, 2015 · In an autobiographical novel and a recent interview, Jang Yeong-jin described his experiences as a gay man growing up in the totalitarian country.
Apr 25, 2017 · Jang Yeong-jin has written an autobiographical nove about his life in North Korea, called 'A Mark of Red Honour'. Source: CNN. Jang Yeong-jin only heard the word "homosexual" for the first time when he was 37 years old, and he had no concept of what it meant.
www.out.com · news-opinion · 2016/2/18North Korean Gay Defector Becomes LGBT Activist - Out Magazine
Feb 19, 2016 · For 40 years, Jang Yeong-jin did not even know gay people existed—that is just how removed North Korean society can be.
Mar 31, 2021 · VALERIA GURROLA WRITES -- Jang Yeong-jin has found love as a gay man nearly twenty-five years after his escape from North Korea. He first made international headlines in 2015 with A Mark of Red Honor's release, his memoir about living as an openly gay defector in South Korea.
