Kim Myung-jun
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| Date of birth | 21 March 2006 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Icheon, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Jong Genk | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 89 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Pohang Steelers | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Pohang Steelers | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Jong Genk | 21 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2023 | South Korea U17 | 23 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | South Korea U20 | 5 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20 April 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 25 September 2024 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Kim Myung-jun (Korean: 김명준; born 21 March 2006) is a South Korean professional footballer who plays as a striker for Challenger Pro League club Jong Genk.
On 11 October 2023, he was named by English newspaper The Guardian as one of the best players born in 2006 worldwide.[1]
Club career
[edit]After playing for academies of Pohang Steelers, Kim joined Jong Genk, the reserve team of Belgian Pro League club Genk, in January 2025.[2]
International career
[edit]Kim represented South Korea at the 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup, scoring two goals in the group stage of the tournament.[3]
Honours
[edit]South Korea U17
- AFC U-17 Asian Cup runner-up: 2023
References
[edit]- ↑ Christenson, Marcus; Bloor, Steven; Blight, Garry (11 October 2023). "Next Generation 2023: 60 of the best young talents in world football". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
- ↑ "South Korean youth international Myung-jun Kim (18) joins Jong Genk". K.R.C. Genk. 23 January 2025. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
- ↑ Kim Myung-jun at Soccerway
External links
[edit]- Kim Myung-jun at KFA (in Korean)
- Kim Myung-jun at Soccerway
Categories:
- Living people
- 2006 births
- South Korean men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- South Korea men's youth international footballers
- 2023 AFC U-17 Asian Cup players
- 2023 FIFA U-17 World Cup players
- 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup players
- Pohang Steelers players
- K League 1 players
- Jong Genk players
- Challenger Pro League players
- South Korean expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
- South Korean expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
- 21st-century South Korean sportsmen