For the first time over 40 years old! Choi Hyung-woo, a .400 hitter, is thrilled to be the first monthly MVP in 8 years...Oldest award ever + Most Honored in total

Jun 09, 2025

For the first time over 40 years old! Choi Hyung-woo, a .400 hitter, is thrilled to be the first monthly MVP in 8 years...Oldest award ever Most Honored in total
Choi Hyung-woo is congratulated by head coach Lee Bum-ho at the award ceremony for Choi Hyung-woo, who achieved his career record of 400 home runs, in a match between Hanwha and KIA at Gwangju KIA Champions Field on the 7th. Gwangju = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.07/



For the first time over 40 years old! Choi Hyung-woo, a .400 hitter, is thrilled to be the first monthly MVP in 8 years...Oldest award ever Most Honored in total
A game between the Doosan Bears and the KIA Tigers at Jamsil Stadium on the 4th. KIA Choi Hyung-woo is cheering after hitting a hit in the top of the second inning. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.06.04/
For the first time over 40 years old! Choi Hyung-woo, a .400 hitter, is thrilled to be the first monthly MVP in 8 years...Oldest award ever Most Honored in total
KBO League match between Samsung and KIA at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 24th. KIA Choi Hyung-woo hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning. Daegu=Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.05.24/
KIA Choi Hyung-woo was selected as the monthly MVP in May. It is the first monthly MVP award in eight years since May 2017.

This is Choi Hyung-woo's sixth career MVP award. He has set a record of winning the most awards, surpassing the record of winning five monthly MVP awards (as of the 2010 season) alongside Yang Hyun-jong (KIA) and Park Byung-ho (Samsung).

Choi Hyung-woo, who received a total of 37.14 points with 19 out of 35 votes (54.3%) and 121,124 (20%) out of 605,631 fan votes, was selected as the monthly MVP in May, beating Hanwha Ponce, who scored a total of 27.99 points with three press corps votes and 287,062 fan votes.




During the month of May, Choi Hyung-woo was listed at the top of various batting indicators. He ranked first with a batting average of 0.407, a slugging percentage of 0.721 and an on-base percentage of 0.505. The OPS, which added slugging percentage and on-base percentage, also ranked first overwhelmingly with 1.226. He also tied for third with 35 hits and fifth with 23 RBIs.

He also recorded 10 multi-hit games in 25 games, and had hits in 16 consecutive games from Gwangju Lotte on May 13 to Suwon KT on May 30. The season's performance is also ranked third in the league with a season batting average of 0.335, as of June 8, so he can aim for the third KBO batting average in his career.

With this award, Choi Hyung-woo also broke the record of the oldest person by winning the first monthly MVP award over the age of 40. As of June 9, Choi Hyung-woo, who is 41 years, 5 months and 24 days old, became the oldest monthly MVP, surpassing the previous record of 39 years, 3 months and 26 days (as of June 3, 2015) held by current NC manager Lee Ho-joon.




Choi Hyung-woo, who was selected as MVP in May, will receive 3 million won in prize money and a trophy. In addition, a donation of 2 million won will be delivered to Jeonju High School through the sponsorship of Shinhan Bank for the development of youth baseball.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.