Her Jaguar collided with a Grandeur taxi at an intersection near Ori station in Bundang, Gyeonggi Province, at around 0:50 a.m., the police said.
Hyun won the gold medal in women's doubles table tennis at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics in Seoul.
A male passenger on board the taxi, driven by a cabbie, surnamed Oh, was injured in the accident and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, police officers said.
Hyun faces having her drivers’ license revoked as her blood alcohol concentration ratio was at 0.201, they said.
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Park Sae-jin
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