Sun-woo Kim

Sun-woo Kim is one of those names that means more if you followed early-2000s baseball closely. A right-handed pitcher out of Incheon and Korea University, he made the jump to Major League Baseball with the Red Sox and bounced through the Expos, Nationals, Rockies and Reds before returning home to the Korea Baseball Organization. What strikes me is how much travel and adjustment that resume hides. Being a Korean arm in the big leagues in that era meant carrying expectations from two countries at once. I respect that he went the distance abroad and then kept pitching at home rather than calling it early.

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Name (English)

Sun-woo Kim

Name (Japanese)

金善宇

Reading

きむ・そんう

Born

September 4, 1977 (age 49)

Origin

Incheon, South Korea

Height

182 cm

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

University

Korea University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-woo%20Kim
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E5%96%84%E5%AE%87
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q626590

Tags

• baseball 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.