Former coach Lee Kwang-hwan, who led LG's Shinbam baseball team in 1994, dies
Jul 02, 2025
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KBO announced on the 2nd that `KBO Senior Advisor Lee Kwang-hwan died on July 2nd.'
Former coach Lee Kwang-hwan, a graduate of Chung-Ang High School and Korea University, was an unemployed baseball player and took the leadership path starting with Chung-Ang High School's baseball team. After coaching, he took over as OB Bears manager in 1989, becoming the first head coach of the team.
He later took over as LG Twins manager in 1992, and in 1994, he created a sensation in LG with autonomous baseball and won the Korean Series that year.
Lee, who left LG in 1996, returned to LG as LG manager in 2004 after serving as Hanwha Eagles in 2001-2002, and later served as LG's second-tier manager. And in 2008, he led the team as the first coach of our Heroes. Former manager Lee has achieved a total of 608 wins in the KBO League.
Former head coach Lee Kwang-hwan, who last left the Heroes professional field, served as the head of Seoul National University's baseball department from 2010 to 2020, worked to expand the base of baseball and foster youth baseball as the chairman of the KBO Development Committee (2006-2007, 2013-2019), and served as the head of the KBO Baseball Academy (2010-2015), contributing to fostering professional baseball leaders.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
