List of KBO career home run leaders

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

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 as of November 30, 2020.[3]
Rank Player Home runs (2020 home runs in parentheses)
1 Lee Seung-yeop 467
2 Choi Jeong 368 (33)
3 Yang Joon-hyuk 351
4 Chang Jong-hoon 340
5 Lee Ho-joon 337
6 Lee Dae-ho 332 (20)
7 Choi Hyung-woo 330 (28)
8 Lee Bum-ho 329
9 Shim Jeong-soo 328
10 Park Kyung-oan 314
11 Song Ji-man 311
Kim Tae-kyun 311 (2)
13 Park Jae-hong 300
14 Park Byung-ho 294 (21)
15 Kim Dong-joo 273
16 Kang Min-ho 272 (19)
17 Ma Hae-yeong 260
18 Lee Man-soo 252
19 Kim Ki-tai 249
Park Seok-min 249 (5)
21 Jang Sung-ho 221
Na Ji-wan 221 (17)
23 Park Yong-taik 213 (2)
24 Hong Sung-heon 208
25 Kim Seong-han 207
26 Kim Dong-soo 202
27 Kim Jae-hyeon 201
27 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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