Park Kyung-oan

Park Kyung-oan (born July 11, 1972 in Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea) is a former South Korean baseball catcher and former Olympic bronze medalist. A four-time Golden Glove winner, Park is considered by many to be one of the best catchers in Korean baseball history. Playing for the Ssangbangwool Raiders, the Hyundai Unicorns, and the SK Wyverns during his career, his teams won five Korean Series championships.

Park Kyung-oan
SK Wyverns – No. 80
Catcher / Battery coach
Born: (1972-07-11) July 11, 1972
Jeonju, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
KBO debut
1991, for the Ssangbangwool Raiders
Last KBO appearance
2013, for the SK Wyverns
KBO statistics
Batting average.249
Home runs314
RBI995
Teams
As player

As coach

As manager

Career highlights and awards
Medals
Representing  South Korea
Men's baseball
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place2000 SydneyTeam
World Baseball Classic
Silver medal – second place 2009 Los Angeles Team
Park Kyung-oan
Hangul
박경완
Hanja
朴勍完
Revised RomanizationBak Gyeongwan
McCune–ReischauerPak Kyŏngwan
In this Korean name, the family name is Park.

Professional career

Park started out his career as a member of the Ssangbangwool Raiders, playing for that team from 1991 to 1997, almost its entire existence. Park was then traded to the Hyundai Unicorns, where he played for the next five seasons. It was there, in the year 2000, where he had arguably the best season of his career, hitting .282 with 40 home runs, and winning the KBO League Most Valuable Player Award.

Park represented the Korean national baseball team in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, leading his team to second place.

In the 2010 season, Park became the first catcher in Korean baseball history to hit 300 career home runs. Park's 166 career hit-by-pitches are second-most in KBO history, after Choi Jeong.[1]

Since 2013, Park has worked as the bench coach for the SK Wyverns.[2]

See also

References
  1. "Choi Jeong remains unfazed after 200th HBP," Korea JoongAng Daily (July 12, 2017).
  2. Yonhap. "KBO manager's collapse shows how stressful the job is," Korea JoongAng Daily (June 28, 2020).
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