# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ku-yong-jo
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:32:07.230Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ku-yong-jo"
name: "Ku Yong-jo"
slug: "ku-yong-jo"
description: "Ku Yong-jo was a boxer from North Korea, who won the gold medal in the bantamweight (–54 kg) division at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In the final, he defeated American boxer Charles Mooney. In 1980, he competed in the featherweight division and, after receiving a first-round bye, lost his first bout to Krzysztof Kosedowski of Poland."
tagline: "North Korean boxer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ku_Yong-jo_19800326_2.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1955-07-17"
deathDate: "2001"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.51
  momentum:             2.202380952380952
  historical:           12.20738
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83_%D0%84%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%83"
    title: "Ку Єн Джу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88_%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%BA-%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "كو يونغ-جو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Yong-jo"
    title: "Ku Yong-jo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Yong-ju"
    title: "Gu Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Yong-jo"
    title: "Ku Yong-jo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Yong-jo"
    title: "Gu Yong-jo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88_%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF-%D8%AC%D9%88"
    title: "کو یونگ-جو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Yong-ju"
    title: "Gu Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Yong-jo"
    title: "Gu Yong-jo"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%AC%EC%98%81%EC%A1%B0"
    title: "구영조"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Yong-ju"
    title: "Gu Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83_%D0%81%D0%BD_%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%83"
    title: "Ку Ён Джу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gu_Yong-Ju"
    title: "Gu Yong-Ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%B9_%E0%B8%A2%E0%B9%87%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%87-%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%88"
    title: "คู ย็อง-โจ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3118665"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump