Kim Min-jung (badminton)

This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Kim Min-jung

2011 US Open

Personal information

Born

July 29, 1986 (age 28)
Jeju, South Korea

Korean name

김민정

金旼貞

Gim Minjeong

Kim Minjŏng

Medal record

Badminton
Competitor for South Korea
Uber Cup
Bronze	2008 Jakarta	Team
Gold	2010 Kuala Lumpur	Team

Kim Min-jung (born July 29, 1986 in Jeju, South Korea) is a badminton player representing South Korea.^[1] Her name is sometimes spelled Kim Min-jeong.

As a badminton player Kim has focused on doubles with Ha Jung-eun; together they competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the past she has been paired with Hwang Ji-man and Yoo Yeon-seong in Mixed Doubles.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Kim and her partner Ha Jung-eun, along with Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na of South Korea, Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang of China, and Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii of Indonesia were disqualified from the competition for "not using one's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport" following matches the previous evening during which they were accused of trying to lose in order to manipulate the draw.^[2] Kim and her partner Ha Jung-eun played against Indonesia's Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.^[3] It is suspected that the Koreans emulated China so to avoid playing against another Korean team in the semi-finals; the Korean head coach Sung Han-kook said "Because they don't want to play the semi-final against each other, so we did the same. We didn't want to play the South Korean team again".^[3]^[4] South Korea filed an appeal to the case, but it was rejected by the Badminton World Federation.^[2]