Jang Sung-woo

South Korean baseball player

Baseball player

Jang Sung-woo
KT Wiz – No. 22
Catcher
Born: (1990-01-17) January 17, 1990 (age 34) Busan, South Korea
Bats: Right Throws: Right
KBO debut
June 26, 2009, for the Lotte Giants
KBO statistics (through September 12, 2023)
Batting average	.254
Home runs	85
Runs batted in	423

Teams
Lotte Giants (2009–2011, 2014) KT Wiz (2015, 2017–present)

Korean name
Hangul	장성우
Hanja	張成宇
Revised Romanization	Jang Seongu
McCune–Reischauer	Chang Sŏngu

Jang Seong-woo (Korean: 장성우; born January 17, 1990) is the catcher of KT Wiz of the KBO League.^[1] He joined Lotte Giants in 2008. After that, he belonged to Korean Police Baseball Team in 2012, and he moved to Lotte Giants again in 2014. Then he moved to KT Wiz in 2015.^[2] He won the most RBI in the North Korean league in the Yakult Seven Pro Baseball Futures League in 2013.^[3] He graduated from Kyungnam High School.^[1]

Controversy

After the 2015 season, his ex-girlfriend revealed his personal life, saying that Park Ki-ryang, a cheerleader for the Lotte Giants, was suing him and had no intention of reaching an agreement.^[4]

In the end, the club suspended him for 50 games and disciplined him for his volunteer work, making him unable to play in the early part of the 2016 season. In addition, back pain remained, so he ended the season without making it to the first division in 2016.

References

^ ^a ^b "[kt wiz] 하이파이브! 승리의 kt wiz!". www.ktwiz.co.kr (in Korean). Retrieved 2018-06-04.
^ "[체크스윙] kt의 재도약, 장성우 반등이 열쇠". OhmyStar. 2018-04-24. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
^ "장성우 :: 네이버 인물검색". people.search.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 2018-06-04.
^ "장성우-박기량, SNS 사생활 폭로 사건 고소하더니 경찰서에서 결국…". Naver News (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-06-18.