Kwak Tae-hwi

Kwak Tae-hwi is the kind of footballer I find easy to admire. Standing at 189 centimetres, he was a commanding centre-back for the South Korea national team, and the detail that really stays with me is that he was blind in his left eye from childhood yet still reached the international level. That alone reframes how I read his career: every clearance and aerial duel carried a degree of difficulty most defenders never face. A Chung-Ang University product from Chilgok in North Gyeongsang, he strikes me as a player whose grit mattered as much as his physical presence at the back.

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Name (English)

Kwak Tae-hwi

Name (Japanese)

郭泰輝

Reading

かく・てひ

Born

July 8, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Chilgok County, North Gyeongsang, South Korea

Height

189 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rooster

University

Chung-Ang University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwak%20Tae-hwi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%AD%E6%B3%B0%E8%BC%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q483471

Tags

• North Gyeongsang
• association football player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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