Kwon Hyeok-kyu

Kwon Hyeok-kyu represents the steady, unglamorous engine that every successful team needs. As a defensive midfielder for Karlsruher SC and the South Korea national team, he does the work that rarely makes highlight reels but always shows up in the result. I find that profile underrated in a football culture obsessed with goals and flair. Coming up through Busan and earning a move into German football, he's quietly built the kind of disciplined, position-aware game that travels well across leagues. To me he's exactly the sort of player coaches trust and fans only fully appreciate once he's missing from the lineup.

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Name (English)

Kwon Hyeok-kyu

Name (Japanese)

權赫奎

Reading

くぉん・ひょくぎゅ

Born

March 13, 2001 (age 25)

Origin

Busan, South Korea

Height

190 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Snake

High school

Gaesung High School

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kwon_hk01/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwon%20Hyeok-kyu
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AC%8A%E8%B5%AB%E5%A5%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q77862076

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.