‘Basketball star’ Woo Ji-won, divorce after 17 years of marriage… divorce 5 years ago

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It was belatedly revealed that Woo Ji-won (51), a former national basketball team member and broadcaster, had divorced.

According to OSEN on the 14th, Woo Ji-won and his ex-wife A divorced through mutual consent in 2019. Accordingly, the two put an end to their 17-year marriage.

Woo Ji-won and A got married in 2002 and appeared together on a TV show to reveal their married life. They have two daughters.

Woo Ji-won is a star who left his mark on the Korean basketball scene in the 1990s with his outstanding basketball skills and warm appearance. Woo Ji-won, who started his professional career with Incheon Daewoo in 1997, the first year of his professional career after graduating from Kyungbok High School and Yonsei University, played in 573 games over 13 seasons, averaging 12.8 points and 2.51 rebounds per game, excluding the 1998-1999 season when he was serving in the military. He was famous for leading the Yonsei University ‘oppa squad’ and being nicknamed the ‘crown prince of the court’.

He led the golden age of Korean basketball but retired in 2010. Since then, Woo Ji-won has been active in both broadcasting and basketball commentary. He made cameo appearances in the dramas ‘The Last Game’ (1994) and ‘Reply 1994’ (2013), and made his acting debut in the 4-part MBC TV miniseries ‘Miss Lee Knows’ in 2020. He has also appeared in entertainment programs such as ‘Our Neighborhood Arts and Physical Education’, ‘Immortal National Team’, and ‘Let’s Eat Dinner Together’. He won the Best Teamwork Award for the entertainment program ‘It’s Fortunately We Don’t Fight’ at the ‘2022 MBC Entertainment Awards’.

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