"Incheon Baseball Housekeeper" will leave in 22 years
"Incheon Baseball Housekeeper" will leave in 22 years
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Min Kyung-sam (61), CEO of SSG Landers, who experienced winning the Korean Series as a player, general manager and president, will leave the professional baseball field.안전놀이터
Shinsegae Group, the parent company of SSG, appointed Kim Jae-sup, the head of planning and management at E-Mart, as the CEO of SSG in its regular executive appointment on the 30th.
Shinsegae replaced head coach Kim Won-hyung, who had two years left on his contract, when SSG, which won the 2022 regular league and Korean Series, fell to third place in the regular league in 2023 and was eliminated after losing three to NC (fourth place) in the semi-playoff. SSG, which started under Lee Soo-yong's coach this year, finished the season in sixth place by giving up fifth place after a "tie breaker" with KT. When the team failed to advance to the postseason for the first time in three years, it even changed its CEO to renovate.
"The number of home spectators exceeded 1 million for the second consecutive year, and KBO surpassed 10 million for the first time this year," former CEO Min Kyung-sam said by phone on the 30th. "I was happy to be the representative of the baseball team at such a time."
Since his debut as a professional player in 1986 with the MBC Blue Dragon (currently LG) team, he played for the same team until 1992. In 1990, he became a member of LG's Korean Series championship team. After retirement, he supported his team win in 1994 as an LG manager. Having started his career as the front desk manager in 2002 after serving as the head of SK's operations team, he contributed to the team's win in 2007 and 2008 as the head of SK's operations team, and led the team's overall championship as the head of SK's operations team in 2010.
After the end of the 2016 season, he left SK and served as vice chairman of the KBO (Korea Baseball Organization) Development Committee and reward and punishment committee member, and served as SK CEO in 2020. He became the second baseball team CEO in history after former Samsung Lions CEO Kim Eung-yong. As the last CEO of SK, he served as the founding CEO of SSG in 2021 and led the team to victory in 2022.
"I won three times at the SK Wyverns, and won the championship in two years after being acquired by SSG. I feel great about it," Min said. "My performance as a player was not that impressive, but when I was a runner, I was given the nickname 'Lucky Man' because I got a good score. It was a lucky streak even at the front desk. I just want to thank him." Min said, "I was a baseball player before I became a manager. I will root for the 10 million viewers to continue."