“The person who was honest like a fastball”… Baseball life 60 years, I send Lee Kwang -hwan
(Sports Seoul | Actor Reporter) In 1994, LG Twins led the Korean Series integrated championship, and former director Lee Kwang -hwan, who remained as the legend of ‘Shin Breeze Baseball’, died on the 2nd.
76 years old. I died in the hospital in Jeju, heading to heaven.
Park Yong -jin, former friend and baseball companion of former director Lee Kwang -hwan, former LG, Samsung, Pacific Ocean, and Hanwha 2 -group coaches wrote a memorial article on SNS. “Gwanghwan, now I leave you to the sky. We first met in the same class of Daegu junior high school in 1961, and since then, we were boys who lived baseball in life.”
The two were motivated by the Army baseball team, and in high school, they confronted the Sunlin (Park Yong-jin) and Junganggo (Lee Kwang-hwan). Since then, LG and Hanwha have reunited to the first and second groups. Park recalled, “It was not even the manager that made the first and second groups almost independently.”
Former director Lee Kwang -hwan has been coached from Seibu Lions and the US St. Louis Cardinals, and has since been regarded as the first person to introduce pitcher division of division of division of division of division, starting and scientific training systems to KBO.
In 1989, he won the professional baton as OB Bears, and led four clubs, LG, Hanwha, and Woori Heroes, and won 608 wins. ‘Shin Wind Baseball’, which led LG to the integrated championship in 1994, put him on the ranks.
After resigning from the supervisory office, he was the chairman of the KBO Promotion Committee (20062007, 2013, 2013) and the KBO Baseball Academy (2010-2015).
Park Yong -jin remembered the deceased, “You always loved baseball, believed in people, and there was a romance. It was a true leader who knew how to rejoice in the success of juniors.”
“Gwanghwan, please stay in peace in the baseball field of the sky. Your life, philosophy, and smile will still be breathing on this earth. I had to meet my wife in 2018. I lived with you for a lifetime.”
Lee Kwang -hwan’s funeral will be held as a baseball seal.
To my eternal friend who left for heaven, Lee Kwang -hwan
My eternal friend, Gwanghwan.
Now we leave you to heaven and take out stories that we have never said in the deep heart. In 1961, I never forgot the day I met you in the same class in the correction of Daegu Middle School.
You were really good at playing baseball as a shortstop, and I was a national team manager, Byung -ho Ko and Seo Young -moo, and you were not a good baseball student and a baseball player who studied well.
It has been over 60 years since the boys who dreamed of a baseball ball over the years have been a colleague of the army baseball team, a high school baseball leader and a companion of the professional stage.
Gwanghwan, you are honest like a strong fastball, and you have a generous heart that respects others more than anyone else. Is it not a person who knows music, creating a reading meeting, and a romantic person, a man who lived a life of a safe enemy,
I was a second -team director and you were the first -class manager, and two meetings in LG and Hanwha were too precious. It was not possible for any supervisor to have almost independently operated the first and second groups.
In the army, we sweated in the same uniform, and in the days of high school directors, we did not lose respect and friendship in the event of each other’s bench fight. I’m Sunlin, and you’re a central high school manager, and it’s hard to play with your flashing strategy at Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium.
And on the stage of LG, Hanwha, and Pro, we wore the same uniform and faith in each other was always one and firm. You were a great theory and technique of advanced baseball, which you learned from Japan’s Seibu Lions and St. Louis Cardinals, USA.
It was like a kite lamp that I tried to combine the ideas I learned there. I changed the team creatively and sometimes I was accused of being criticized for not understanding this creativity, but over time it became right, and it was good to see that your trademark, autonomous baseball, baseball, was a habit.
You always loved baseball, believed in people, and romantic. He was a true leader who knew how to rejoice in the success of his juniors.
Now you have left for the baseball field of heaven, but your life, your philosophy, your smile will still live on this earth.
Gwanghwan, you were not the only one who left baseball in my life. In 2018, it was you who first met my wife who first left for the sky. That one changed my life, and I have lived with gratitude and gratitude for a lifetime.
You were a friend who presented a precious person to my life, and it was always the support that caused me by my side. I hope that warm heart, its deep friendship, and now we will continue again under the sky.
Gwanghwan, please watch us with a bright smile.
July 2025. Your friend, Park Yongjin Dream
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