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My Take
Park Chan-yong is the sort of footballer I quietly root for. Born in 1996 and playing for the storied Pohang Steelers, he came up the unglamorous way, through a vocational high school and Daegu University rather than an early academy spotlight. The K League is a brutally competitive environment, and simply surviving at a club with Pohang's pedigree earns my respect. I have always been drawn to dependable, structure-first players who hold a team together rather than the flashy scorers who grab headlines. Park reads to me as exactly that kind of grafter, and I find that quietly admirable.
Overview
Park Chan-yong (Korean: 박찬용; born January 27, 1996) is a South Korean football player. He plays for Pohang Steelers.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Park Chan-yong
- Name (Japanese)
- 朴璨鎔
- Reading
- ぱく・ちゃにょん
- Born
- January 27, 1996 (age 30)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aquarius / Rat
- Origin
- South Korea, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Daedong Taxation High School
- University
- Daegu University
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chanyongpaku/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%B4%E7%92%A8%E9%8E%94
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.