# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pak-sung-hyok
# Generated: 2026-08-31T21:50:13.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pak-sung-hyok"
name: "Pak Sung-hyok"
slug: "pak-sung-hyok"
description: "A North Korean footballer who made the 2010 World Cup squad — part of the most isolated national team in tournament history, with only one player from a European club in an era when every other nation had many."
tagline: "North Korean footballer"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1990-05-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.582552041951375
  historical:           16.810044
  currentAttention:     26.88172043010753
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - name: "21st Century"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пак Сон Хёк"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Pak Sung-hyok was named to North Korea's 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, held from 11 June to 11 July. The tournament marked a rare global stage for North Korean football, and the squad stood out for its isolation: it was the only team with just one player from a European club, Hong Yong-jo, at a time when every other nation had multiple European-based players. The preliminary squad of 30 was announced by 11 May, then cut to 23 by 1 June. Pak's presence captured the extreme insularity of North Korean football in a World Cup where even Nigeria fielded no domestic players and teams like England, Italy, and Germany went entirely domestic by choice.