Kim Hyuk


Kim Hyuk is a South Korean judoka. He won a gold medal in the lightweight division at the 1997 World Judo Championships in Paris. In 1994, Kim won five international competitions including Paris Open, the Asian Games in Hiroshima, Japan and the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Kim Hyuk is currently the assistant coach of the South Korean women's judo team for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

In 1999, Kim married a Japanese female judoka Yuko Emoto, the gold medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics.