Shooter Kim Yeji and 'Gyedanppusyeo Club' CEO Park Subin
Ranked in BBC UK's '100 Women of the Year'
"Everything about Kim Yeji is Praiseworthy"
Kim Yeji, a national shooting representative who won the silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, was ranked in the 'BBC 100 Women of the Year'.
On the 3rd (local time), BBC released the list of 'BBC 100 Women of 2024' on its homepage. The Koreans included in the list were Kim and Park Subin, the CEO who founded the non-profit organization 'Gyedanppusyeo Club' to promote mobility rights for the disabled.
First, BBC described Kim as "drawing global attention this year with her achievements and charisma in the field of sports," explaining, "She won a silver medal in the women's 10m air pistol at the Olympics and set a world record in the women's 25m pistol a few months ago." It added, "Her videos spread widely on social media (SNS). Not only her skills but also her ice-cold attitude, unbreakable concentration, sci-fi inspired appearance, and custom glasses that help improve accuracy have all been praised."
BBC also reported that Kim is currently taking a short break to spend time with her six-year-old daughter. Furthermore, it introduced Kim's statement: "Through sports, we show resilience, teamwork, and determination. These values inspire broader social change beyond the playing field."
Additionally, Park, who was selected as one of the 100 Women of the Year along with Kim, has been active in creating and providing the 'Stair Conquest Map' for mobility-impaired individuals such as wheelchair and crutch users. BBC stated, "Park Subin, a wheelchair user, realized that many places she wanted to go to in Seoul were inaccessible," and "She began highlighting this issue by utilizing her skills as a former IT project manager."
After collecting information related to routes that cannot be accessed by wheelchair or require climbing stairs, she embarked on a project to create an accessibility map to help mobility-impaired people reach their destinations more easily. BBC added, "So far, more than 2,000 citizens have contributed to building the database through Gyedanppusyeo Club's events, and over 14,000 locations nationwide have been evaluated for accessibility."
Meanwhile, the list of 100 Women selected by BBC also included Zakia Khudadadi, a taekwondo athlete from Afghanistan who won a medal as part of the refugee team at the Paris Paralympics, bringing hope to refugees and disabled people worldwide for the first time. Other notable names reported to be on the list include Katalin Karik?, a professor at the University of Szeged in Hungary who contributed to the development of the COVID-19 vaccine and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine last year, U.S. Senator Susan Collins, and British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner.
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