Song Sung-Mun Of The San Diego Padres

It kind of got lost among the other signings and the holidays but the San Diego Padres signed former Kiwoom Heroes infielder Song Sung-Mun to a four year contract.  Song was originally drafted by the then-Nexen Heroes in 2015 and made his top level debut that season.  He spent a lot of the next few years on the farm team and missed the entire 2020 season fulfilling his military obligations (which pretty much involved playing for the Sangmu Phoenix, a team associated with the military that plays in the KBO Futures League, KBO's farm league.  He became a regular with the Heroes in 2021 and had the best two years of his career the last two seasons - hitting .340 with 19 home runs and 104 RBIs in 2024 and .315 with 26 home runs and 90 RBIs in 2025.  I think his only experience with the Korean National Team was during the 2024 Premier 12.

Given that there aren't anywhere near as many KBO sets as NPB sets, he doesn't have a whole lot of baseball cards.  TCDB lists only 19 cards for him but I think ten of those are parallels or autograph cards - it's hard to be sure since KBO sets can be somewhat complicated with multiple base set cards sometimes having the same number, making it hard to tell if a particular card listing is a base card or a parallel.  His earliest known cards are from the 2018 SCC sets - #SCCR-01/157 in the KBO League Regular Collection, #SCCR-02R/058 in the KBO Collection 2 Red set and ##SCC-02/171 KBO Premium Collection.  It's possible there are earlier, team-issued cards of him but they are not listed in TCDB.  Here are all the cards I have of him - it's not many as I stopped getting KBO cards after 2021 and he was not in any of the 2020 or 2021 sets:

2018 SCC KBO League Regular Collection #SCCR-01/157

2018 SCC KBO Collection 2 Red #SCCR-02R/058

2019 SCC KBO Regular Collection 1 #SCCR1-19/074

2019 SCC KBO Premium Collection 1 #SCCP1-19/084