Shin Dong-pa is a South Korean basketball coach, sports commentator, and former basketball player who competed at the men's basketball tournaments at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.
13 Facts About Shin Dong-pa
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Shin Dong-pa was a member of the senior South Korean national team that won the gold medal at the 1969 FIBA Asian Cup.
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Shin Dong-pa played with South Korea at the 1970 FIBA World Championship, where he finished as that tournament's top scorer.
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Shin Dong-pa is considered to be one of the best Asian basketball players of all time.
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Shin Dong-pa was born in Northern Korea, during Japanese rule, in what is Anbyon County, in North Korea's South Hamgyong Province.
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Shin Dong-pa attended Whimoon High School and Yonsei University, where he graduated in 1967.
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Shin Dong-pa played club basketball in South Korea, with Small Business Bank, from 1967 to 1974.
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Shin Dong-pa is well-known in the Philippines, because he scored 50 points for South Korea, in a game against the Philippine national basketball team, at the 1969 FIBA Asian Cup's final, which was held in Bangkok.
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Shin Dong-pa competed with the senior men's South Korean national basketball team at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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Shin Dong-pa played with South Korea at the 1970 FIBA World Championship, which was held in Yugoslavia.
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Shin Dong-pa ended up being the top scorer at the tournament, scoring an average of 32.6 points per game.
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In 1991, Shin Dong-pa began to work as the founding director of the SBS Men's Basketball Team.
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Shin Dong-pa has worked as a sports commentator for basketball games, for the Seoul Broadcasting System, and as a vice chairman of the South Korean Basketball Association.