The following is the current leaderboard for career home runs in KBO League Korean baseball.

Lee Seung-yeop is the player with most home runs in KBO history, with 467.

Lee Man-soo was the KBO's first Home Run King, retiring in 1997 with 252 career home runs. His total was surpassed by Chang Jong-hoon on May 23, 1999,[1] and Chang retained the title for ten years. In 2009, Yang Joon-hyuk hit his 341st home run, passing Chang to become Home Run King. In 2012, Lee Seung-yeop hit his 352nd home run to claim the Home Run King title,[2] which he extended to 467 before he retired. (Lee Seung-yeop hit an additional 159 home runs in Nippon Professional Baseball, for a career total of 626 homers.)

Players with 200 or more home runs

  • Stats updated at the conclusion of the 2023 regular season.[3]
Rank Player Home runs (2020 home runs in parentheses)
1 Lee Seung-yeop 467
2 Choi Jeong 458 (29)
3 Park Byung-ho 380 (18)
4 Lee Dae-ho 374
5 Choi Hyung-woo 373 (17)
6 Yang Joon-hyuk 351
7 Chang Jong-hoon 340
8 Lee Ho-joon 337
9 Lee Bum-ho 329
10 Shim Jeong-soo 328
11 Kang Min-ho 319 (16)
12 Park Kyung-oan 314
13 Song Ji-man 311
Kim Tae-kyun 311
15 Park Jae-hong 300
16 Kim Dong-joo 273
17 Park Seok-min 269 (1)
18 Ma Hae-yeong 260
19 Lee Man-soo 252
20 Na Sung-bum 251 (18)
21 Kim Ki-tai 249
22 Yang Eui-ji 245 (17)
23 Hyun-soo Kim 241 (6)
24 Kim Jae-hwan 234 (10)
25 Jang Sung-ho 221
Na Ji-wan 221
27 Park Yong-taik 213
28 Hong Sung-heon 208
29 Kim Seong-han 207
Hwang Jae-gyun 207 (16)
31 Oh Jae-il 204 (11)
32 Kim Dong-soo 202
33 Kim Jae-hyun 201
Choi Jun-seok 201

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lee, Sang-won (May 23, 1999). "Jang Jong-hoon sweeps all the offensive career categories". Yonhap News (in Korean).
  2. ↑ 레전드 [History -> Legends] (in Korean). Samsung Lions official website. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  3. ↑ Statiz
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