Lee Jae-sung

Lee Jae-sung is the kind of player who quietly makes everyone around him better, and I think that's genuinely rare. Growing up in Ulsan and going all the way through Korea University before carving out a Bundesliga career at Mainz 05 tells you a lot about the guy — disciplined, smart, built for the long game. He can play as an attacking midfielder or out wide, and he does both without complaint, which coaches absolutely love. What gets me is how consistently he shows up for the South Korea national team in the big moments — not always with the highlight-reel goal, but with the press, the pass, the run that breaks the line. He's the kind of footballer that analytically minded fans have known about for years while casual observers are only catching up now.

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Name (English)

Lee Jae-sung

Name (Japanese)

李在成

Reading

い・じぇそん

Born

August 10, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Ulsan, South Gyeongsang, South Korea

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Monkey

University

Korea University

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jaesung17/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Jae-sung
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%9C%A8%E6%88%90
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16234741

Tags

• South Gyeongsang
• association football player

Last updated

October 18, 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.