Kim Min-jung (badminton), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kim Min-jung (badminton)

South Korean badminton player

Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1986

Place of Birth: Jeju, Jeju Province, South Korea

Profession: badminton player

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Kim Min-jung (born July 29, 1986) is a badminton player representing South Korea.
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.
Kim and her partner Ha Jung-eun played against Indonesia's Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.
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".
South Korea filed an appeal to the case, but it was rejected by the Badminton World Federation.