Twenty Olympic medalists, including taekwondo Olympic champion Lim Su-jeong, have passed the examination to join the police, the National Police Agency said Thursday.
They were selected out of 45 medalists in judo and taekwondo who applied for the job as police officers specializing in violent crimes, the agency said in a statement.
It is the first time since 2004 that the NPA recruited police officers specializing in martial arts.
“I look forward to work at departments catching people committing violent crimes,” said Jeong Gyeong-mi, the 2008 Olympic gold medalist in women’s judo.
They will join the Central Police Academy in Chungju, North Chungcheong Province, on Aug. 15 for a 34-week training program before being assigned to police stations for about one year.
Afterward they will join provincial police agencies dealing with organized and violent crimes. (Yonhap)
