Crime City Makeup Team Leader' Jo Eun-hye, Competes in Paralympics as Wheelchair Fencing Athlete

Spinal cord injury in 2017 while working as a film stylist.

New life in wheelchair fencing. "I will make the national anthem resonate in Paris."

Eunhye Cho (39), a national wheelchair fencing team member competing in the 2024 Paris Paralympics,

has an unusual background.

He worked as a stylist in the film industry until he suffered a fall in 2017.

His representative work is the movie The Outlaws, which was released in 2017 and attracted 6.8 million viewers.

Jo Eun-hye participated as the makeup team leader

and was in charge of the style of the main actors including Ma Dong-seok.

The looks of the actors in the movies 'Secretly Greatly' and 'Goodbye Single'

were also completed by Jo Eun-hye's fingertips. 토토사이트 추천

The life of Jo Eun-hye, a successful stylist, was completely turned upside down by a fall.

Jo Eun-hye, who suffered spinal cord damage,

was diagnosed as paralyzed from the waist down and would never walk again.

She could not go around the movie set in a wheelchair and take charge of the actors’ makeup.

That's how Jo Eun-hye's first act of life came to an end.

The second act of her life opened by chance.

Jo Eun-hye, whom we met at the Icheon Athletes' Village in Gyeonggi Province on the 15th said,

"While I was looking for a sport that suited me for rehabilitation,

I happened to see a wheelchair fencing match on TV news."

She added, "The sight of the athletes competing in white fencing suits looked cool.

I just contacted the Disabled Fencing Association and started exercising."

Cho Eun-hye, who had an extraordinary desire to win, grew quickly.

She said, "I lost the first match of the first competition I participated in after allowing a one-sided attack,

 and "I got angry, and in the second competition I participated in, I came in third.

I felt the joy of victory that I had never experienced when I was living as a non-disabled person."

Her body was covered in bruises after being hit countless times by fencing swords,

but Cho Eun-hye didn't care.

She said, "My self-esteem dropped a lot after becoming disabled,

but I recovered a lot while working as a fencing athlete,"

and "At some point, I started to have confidence and focus on my career as an athlete."

At some point, Cho Eun-hye grew into Korea's best wheelchair fencer.

She won two bronze medals at the 2022 Hangzhou Para Asian Games held last year and won three gold medals

at the 2023 National Para Games.

Now, she is looking forward to the Paralympic stage where the world's best disabled athletes will participate.

Cho Eun-hye said, “This is a life I could not have imagined before the accident,”

and “Just the fact that I am competing in the Paralympics as a national representative is overwhelming.”

She continued, “I want to make the national anthem resonate in Paris,” and vowed,

“I will prepare hard with the goal of winning a gold medal.”

Cho Eun-hye, who is ambidextrous, holds her fencing sword with her left hand.

In wheelchair fencing, where many right-handed fencers are present, left-handed fencers have an advantage.

She feels more secure at the Paris Paralympics because she will be accompanied

by national team coach Park Da-young, with whom she has worked with for over 10 years.

Cho Eun-hye said, “Coach Park Da-young is a coach who has been with me since I started exercising,”

and “She is 10 years younger than me, but she teaches me a lot.

I want to achieve good results together.”