Major League Baseball Players Born in Korea

Major League Baseball Players Born in Korea

Since the 19th Century, Major League Baseball has enjoyed a rich, diverse, world-wide set of talent not seen in any other major league sport. Every state in the United States of America, and more than forty-five countries, have had at least one player make it to the show. The table below is a comprehensive historical analysis of every major league baseball player born in Korea. Selecting a player's name will bring up their statistics page and selecting a column title (Birthplace, Debut Year, Final Year) will allow you to re-sort the data.

"For starting pitchers we have two Dominicans, one Italian, one Mexican and one Japanese. In the bullpen we have a Venezuelan, a Mexican, a guy from the United States and a guy from St. Louis." - Los Angeles Dodger / Hall of Fame Manager Tommy Lasorda (AP Wire, 08/18/1999)

Player	Born In	Date of Birth	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Born in Korea A Historical Analysis / Return To Players by Birthplace
Cha Seung Baek	Busan, South Korea	1980-05-29	2004	Active
Jung Bong	Seoul, South Korea	1980-07-15	2002	Active
Jin Ho Cho	Jun Ju City, South Korea	1975-08-16	1998	1999
Hee-Seop Choi	Chun-Nam, South Korea	1979-03-16	2002	Active
Shin-Soo Choo	Pusan, South Korea	1982-07-13	2005	Active
Byung-Hyun Kim	Kwangsan-Ku Songjungdong, South Korea	1979-01-21	1999	Active
Sun Woo Kim	Inchon, South Korea	1977-09-04	2001	Active
Dae-Sung Koo	Daejeon, South Korea	1969-08-02	2005	Active
Sang-Hoon Lee	Seoul, South Korea	1971-03-11	2000	2000
Chan Ho Park	Kongju, South Korea	1973-06-30	1994	Active
Tommy Phelps	Seoul, South Korea	1974-03-04	2003	Active
Jae Kuk Ryu	Choon Chung Do, South Korea	1983-05-30	2006	Active
Jae Seo	Kwanju,South Korea	1977-05-24	2002	Active
Player	Born In	Date of Birth	Debut Year	Final Year
Major League Baseball Players Born in Korea

Did you know that Jose Canseco was the first foreign-born (Cuba) player to reach the four-hundred home runs plateau? Did you know that Sammy Sosa was the first foreign-born (Dominican Republic) player to reach the five-hundred home runs plateau?

Baseball Almanac is aware that researching baseball players by their place of birth is common data found easily on the Internet today. We, as you are well aware, enjoy taking that extra step here and have taken that common data and added this amazing chart which will enable you to see a historical breakdown of players from any given year in history by their place of birth:

1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885

1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895

1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905

1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915

1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935

1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945

1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955

1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965

1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975

1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985

1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

2006 2007 2008 2009

If you would like to see a comprehensive list broken down by country of the first player born in a country or territory other than the United States of America, we have one in our Famous First section called Foreign Born Baseball Players.

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