Pak Ok-song


Pak Ok-song is a North Korean judoka, who played for the extra-lightweight category. She won two medals, silver and bronze, for the 48 kg division at the Asian Championships.
Pak represented North [Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics] in Beijing, where she competed for the Judo at the [2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 48 kg|women's extra-lightweight] class. She defeated Portugal's Ana Hormigo and Kazakhstan's Kelbet Nurgazina in the preliminary rounds, before losing out the semi-final match, by an ippon and a yoko shiho gatame, to Cuba's Yanet Bermoy. Because Bermoy advanced further into the final match against Romania's Alina Dumitru, Pak automatically qualified for the bronze medal game, where she narrowly lost the medal to Argentina's Paula Pareto, who successfully scored a waza-ari and a kuchiki taoshi, at the end of the five-minute period.