Career
Kang qualified for the women"s 200 m backstroke, as South of Korea"s youngest swimmer (aged 14), at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:17.10 from the Dong-A Swimming Championships in Ulsan. Kang failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-sixth out of 35 swimmers in the evening preliminaries.