Ten years later, at the Pusan East Asian Games, Chu's results were 80 kilos in the snatch and 100 kilos in the clean and jerk, for a 180 total. Not only is this better than the gold medal-winning performance back in 1987, it closely approaches the number one performance of 1996--187.5 kilos.
十年後的這次東亞運，朱南美的成績是，抓舉八十公斤、挺舉一百公斤、總和一百八十公斤，不但超越當年的金牌成績，也逼近一九九六年世界女子舉重排名第一的一百八十七．五公斤。