Kim Tae-gyun (baseball, born 1971)

Kim Tae-gyun, born on 19 August 1971, is a former South Korean baseball player, listed here with his birth year to tell him apart from other players of the same name. Not known for his batting, he was an excellent utility infielder and a key component of the defensive formula of the Samsung Lions in the late 1990s. He was part of the South Korean national baseball team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. In the middle of the 2002 season he was traded to the Lotte Giants, and after a career year in 2004 he signed as a free agent with the SK Wyverns, where he played until he announced his retirement in 2007. He later served as the infield instructor of the SK Wyverns reserve team.