 She went on to win a gold medal in the individual foil event at the 1990 Asian Games.Tak grew up in Busan, where she took up fencing as a first-year student at Namdo Girls' Middle School (南都여중).She continued in the sport after she went on to Yeongdo Girls' High School (영도여고), and was chosen for the South Korean national team in her second year of high school.