Lee Byung-kyu

Lee Byung-kyu, born on October 25, 1974, is a retired South Korean baseball outfielder who played 17 seasons for the LG Twins of the KBO League and three seasons for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. He spent two stretches with the Twins, from 1997 to 2006 and again from 2010 to 2016, and the club retired his number 9 in a ceremony on July 9, 2017, held before and after a game against the Hanwha Eagles. On the international stage he represented South Korea at two Olympic baseball tournaments: the Korean team finished eighth at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and four years later, at the 2000 Summer Olympics, he was part of the squad that won the bronze medal.