List Of KBO Career Home Run Leaders
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The following is the current leaderboard for career home runs in
KBO League The KBO League (), officially the Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League, is the highest level league of baseball in South Korea. The KBO League was founded with six franchises in 1982 and is the most popular sports league in South Korea. The Kia Tigers ar ...
Korean baseball.
Lee Man-soo Lee Man-soo (, Hanja: 李萬洙; born September 9, 1958 in Cheorwon, Gangwon-do, South Korea), also spelled as Man Soo Lee, is a former Korea Professional Baseball catcher and First baseman and manager. After a distinguished career as a prof ...
was the KBO's first Home Run King, retiring in 1997 with 252 career home runs. His total was surpassed by
Chang Jong-hoon Chang Jong-hoon (born April 10, 1968) is a retired former infielder in the KBO League. He spent his entire 20-year career with Binggrae/Hanwha Eagles. He is currently a coach with the team. Chang was a two-time KBO MVP, and led the league in h ...
on May 23, 1999, and Chang retained the title for ten years. In 2009,
Yang Joon-hyuk Yang Joon-hyuk is a South Korean retired professional baseball player. A left-handed hitter and outfielder, he spent most of his career with the Samsung Lions. He is known by the nickname "Yangshin" (양신, 梁神), or "God, Yang". He retired ...
hit his 341st home run, passing Chang to become Home Run King. In 2012,
Lee Seung-yeop Lee Seung-yuop (born 18 August 1976) is a retired baseball player and the current manager of the Doosan Bears. He spent most of his career with the Samsung Lions of the KBO League. At the age of 26, he became the youngest professional baseball p ...
hit his 352nd home run to claim the Home Run King title, which he extended to 467 before he retired. (Lee Seung-yeop hit an additional 159 home runs in
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, for a career total of 626 homers.)


Players with 200 or more home runs

* ''Stats updated as of October 12th, 2022.''Statiz
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List of KBO career hits leaders The following is the current leaderboard for career hits in KBO League Korean baseball. Players with 1,700 or more hits * ''Stats updated as of October 12, 2022.'' References {{notelist See also * List of KBO career home run leaders * List ...
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List of KBO career RBI leaders The following is the current leaderboard for career runs batted in (RBIs) KBO League Korean baseball. Players with 1,000 or more RBIs * ''Stats updated as of October 12, 2022.'' See also * List of KBO career hits leaders * List of KBO car ...
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List of KBO career stolen bases leaders The following is the current leaderboard for career stolen bases in KBO League Korean baseball. The first KBO Stolen Base King was Kim Il-kwon, who stole 363 bases in a career that spanned from 1982 to 1991. His record was broken in 1997 by Lee ...
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List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders This is a list of the 300 Major League Baseball players who have hit the most home runs. In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play, without the benefit ...
* List of top Nippon Professional Baseball home run hitters


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