Paralympic Taekwondo Player Joo Jeong-hoon "I will go to my Grandmother's Grave with my Paralympic Gold Medal"

Joo Jeong-hoon, who was disabled by his grandmother's cutting machine, said, "My grandmother passed away after the Tokyo Paralympic Games.

I will dedicate the gold medal I did not win at the Tokyo Games to my grave."

“I will definitely win a gold medal at the Paris Paralympic Games.

And I will visit my grandmother’s grave with the gold medal and the beef she loved when she was alive."

Joo Jeong-hoon (29, SK Eco Plant), a representative of the Korean Para Taekwondo men's 80kg class, met with reporters ahead of the 2024 Korean Paralympic Games national team training opening ceremony held at the Icheon Athletes' Village in Gyeonggi-do on the 25th and said this. https://www.casinosite.one

He said, "My grandmother is the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.

“He passed away a few months after this ended,” he said.

“They said he called my name before he passed away.

I will definitely win the gold medal at the Paris Paralympics that I was unable to win at the Tokyo Paralympic Games for my grandmother,

Joo Jeong-hoon said. When he thinks of his grandmother, he starts crying.

This is because she was a grandmother who lived with a sense of guilt her whole life.

Joo Jeong-hoon became disabled at the age of two.

He suffered a terrible accident when he put his right hand into a sawmill cutter at his grandmother's rural house in Haman-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do.

Afterwards, every time the grandmother, Kim Bun-seon, saw her son, his wife, and her grandson, she shed endless tears, saying that she was a sinner.

Kim Bun-seon, who lived in tears her entire life, was diagnosed with dementia in 2018.

And little by little he ceased to recognize his grandson.

Joo Jeong-hoon became a member of the national disabled Taekwondo team and won a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics held in 2021, but his grandmother was not aware of this either.

After the competition, Joo Jeong-hoon visited the nursing home where his grandmother was with his bronze medal. https://stocktwits.com/cristellecruzfour

Her grandmother still did not recognize Joo Jeong-hoon.

And a few months later, her grandmother passed away.

Joo Jeong-hoon heard that his grandmother was in critical condition and rushed to a nursing home, but was unable to save her from her deathbed.

Instead, he heard that his name was called.

Joo Jung-hoon said, "Her grandmother called my name. Her heart was broken."

He said, “A few months after my grandmother passed away, her grandfather also passed away.”

He added, “The two of them attended the funeral together, and we plan to visit them ahead of the Paris Paralympic Games.”

He said, "After the competition is over, I will take the gold medal with me.

I will also take the beef, which I always liked, with me."

Joo Jeong-hoon is a representative figure of Taekwondo for the disabled in Korea.

Joo Jeong-hoon, who first learned Taekwondo in the second grade of elementary school, walked the path of becoming an elite Taekwondo athlete, confidently competing with non-disabled athletes and raising expectations as a promising player.

He gave up his sports in his second year of high school because he was hurt by people's gaze, but started exercising again when Taekwondo was adopted as an official sport at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games.

He won a bronze medal in the men's 75kg class at the Tokyo Games, becoming the first Korean athlete to win a Taekwondo medal at the Paralympic Games.

At the 2022 Hangzhou Para Asian Games held in October last year, he became the first Korean player to win the championship. https://www.thebmc.co.uk/profile?id=63312

Joo Jeong-hoon said, "During the Tokyo Paralympic Games, I prepared alone, but now the Korean Sports Association for the Disabled has given me a lot of support. I will win this competition and have no regrets."