Shin Dong-pa

During the 1970s and 1980s, Shin worked as a women's basketball coach and team director. In 1991, Shin began to work as the founding director of the SBS Men's Basketball Team. He also worked as a men's basketball coach.

Shin is well-known in the Philippines, because he scored 50 points for South Korea, in a game against the Philippine national basketball team, at the 1969 FIBA Asian Cup's final, which was held in Bangkok. Shin's South Korean team won that tournament. That team returned home to South Korea, to a hero's welcome, and even met the South Korean President at the time, Park Chung-hee.

Shin was born in Northern Korea, during Japanese rule, in what is now Anbyon County, in North Korea's South Hamgyong Province. He attended Whimoon High School and Yonsei University, where he graduated in 1967.

Shin played club basketball in South Korea, with Small Business Bank, from 1967 to 1974.

Shin also competed with the senior men's South Korean national basketball team at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. He also played with South Korea at the 1970 FIBA World Championship, which was held in Yugoslavia. South Korea finished in 11th place out of 13 teams at that tournament. Shin ended up being the top scorer at the tournament, scoring an average of 32.6 points per game.

Shin Dong-pa (Korean: 신동파; born September 2, 1944) is a South Korean basketball coach, sports commentator, and former basketball player who competed at the men's basketball tournaments at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was also a member of the senior South Korean national team that won the gold medal at the 1969 FIBA Asian Cup. He also played with South Korea at the 1970 FIBA World Championship, where he finished as that tournament's top scorer.