Jae-Gyun Hwang of the Lotte Giants of the KBO has signed a minor league deal with the San Francisco Giants. Hwang was originally a third round pick in the 2006 KBO draft by the Hyundai Unicorns who folded after the 2007 season and became the Woori Heroes who became the Nexen Heroes in 2010. He was traded from Nexen to the Giants during the 2010 season. He also played for the Korean National team in the 2015 Premier 12 (and made the All World Team for the tournament).
As far as I can tell, there are about eight base set cards for Hwang among the well known KBO issues of the past few years. He had a card in the 2010
KBO "game" set and also appears in base sets of the 2014-15 Blue Edition, 2015
Season Two, 2015
Hell's Fireball, 2016
Diamond Winners and 2016
Forever Ace sets, all from Super Star Baseball (or whatever the company is actually called). He also has insert/short print cards in Super Star Baseball's 2014 Season One and Three sets and the 2014-15 Blue Edition set (in addition to the base set cards), autograph cards in the 2014 Season Three, 2014-15 Blue Edition and 2015 Season One sets and (I think) a patch card in the 2015 Season One set. You can see a list of these (including some parallels)
here.
Here's the cards I have from this list:
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| 2010 KBO "Game" set #AN-007 |
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| 2014-15 Super Star Baseball Blue Edition #SBCBE-159-GN |
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| 2014-15 Super Star Baseball Blue Edition #SBCBE-177-GN |
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| 2015 Super Star Baseball Season Two SBC1502-111-N |
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| 2015 Super Star Baseball Season Two Sticker |
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| 2015 Super Star Baseball Hell's Fireball #PA01-LO006 |
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| 2016 Super Star Baseball Diamond Winners #PA02-LO001 |
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| 2016 Super Star Baseball Forever Ace #PA03-LO004 |
I'm assuming the "D. H." is a tribute to former Lotte Giant Dae-Ho Lee, whose uniform number (#10) Hwang switched to this past season.
And I don't know why this hadn't occurred to me earlier, but I had actually seen Hwang play in Arizona last February in the game Lotte played against the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He was the one Lotte player to get a hit against Shohei Ohtani. Here's the tweet from
@MyKBO that reminded me:
You can almost see
Deanna,
@the_hereford and me behind the Fighters' dugout (the Padres' side).
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