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Bulkkot Baseball - KREAN LAB (Klean Wrap) - Zainichi Korean - Lee Hee-gon

Zainichi Korean - Kim Sung-keun

Klean Wrap is a household goods manufacturing company established in Busan in 1983 by Chairman Jeon Byeong-su, a Zainichi Korean businessman, with the aim of 'creating a company that will contribute to Korea'. Chairman Jeon, a Zainichi Korean, established Klean Wrap in 1983 with the determination to manage a company in Korea and contribute even a little to the national economic growth. The following year, it pioneered the domestic vinyl manufacturing industry by introducing innovative products such as the first polyethylene (PE) non-toxic wrap in Korea.

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The Lee Hee-gon Korea-Japan Exchange Foundation, established in 2008, strives for the development of exchange and cooperative relations between the two countries through academic/cultural/economic exchange support projects, scholarship programs, etc., between Korea and Japan.

Zainichi Koreans have been operating ethnic financial institutions such as Shogin Credit Union (Shogin) and Chogin Credit Union (Chogin), and many accounts using common names, borrowed names, and false names were created and misused in these financial institutions. In connection with the embezzlement case of Shinkin Kansai Kogyo, Lee Hee-gon, who was the chairman at the time, withdrew deposits from the accounts opened under the name 'Lee Hee-gon' and the common name 'Yoshio Hirata' that he had with Kansai Kogyo and city banks immediately before the bankruptcy of Kansai Kogyo, and deposited them into Shinhan Bank, which he was also chairman of at the time, and sent about 3 billion yen to Korea. It is said that the purpose was to hide assets to avoid seizure of personal assets[59].In addition, Lee Hee-gon remained in the position of honorary chairman of Shinhan Bank and permanent advisor to the Korean Residents Union in Japan (Mindan). Also, in Shinhan Bank, the borrowed name accounts of Zainichi Koreans became a problem during the internal strife in 2010[61][62]. In Chogin, which is affiliated with the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chosun Soren), a large number of false and fictitious accounts were created in connection with the bankruptcy from the late 1990s, and it was revealed that they were used for sending money to North Korea and as funds for political activities in Japan[63][64]. In 2006, the Supreme Court ruled that the public funds would cover the tax evasion of 4.18 billion yen for a Zainichi Korean man who ran a pachinko parlor and had deposited tax evasion funds in a fictitious name account at Chogin Tokyo[65].As such, the easy change of common names combined with ethnic financial institutions accepting borrowed names, fictitious names, and fictitious accounts has become a hotbed of crimes such as tax evasion and illegal remittances. On the other hand, it is said that only the Japanese affiliated with the Zainichi society, such as the yakuza, could open such accounts at ethnic financial institutions[66].

Kim Sung-keun (김성근, Kim Seong-geun, October 30, 1941[Note 2] -) is a professional baseball manager and coach from Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan[Note 3].

After being active as a pitcher in amateur baseball in Korea[4], he served as a manager for 7 KBO teams, and his total of 1234 wins as a manager until 2014 is the second highest record in Korean professional baseball history, following Kim Eung-ryong's 1567 wins (24 years, 1290 losses, 68 draws). The common name is 'Noya-gami', which means the god of baseball[6].

Japanese name is Seikon Kanabayashi (金林 星根)

Birth - Amateur Baseball Era
Born in Kyoto as a second-generation Zainichi Korean[6][Note 5]. His registered domicile is in Jinyang-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, and he first visited Korea as a member of the 4th Zainichi Korean Students Baseball Team in 1959[6]. After graduating, he went to Korea in 1960[4] and was scouted by Dong-A University after visiting amateur teams in Japan, but dropped out[Note 6] and devoted himself to amateur baseball. In 1961, he joined the amateur team of the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Transportation as a full-fledged left-handed pitcher[6]. The decisive foundation for his leap was the camp conducted by the Nankai Hawks of the same year as a test player[9], where he learned training methods from Kazuhiro Tsuruoka, the director, the players of the golden age of Nankai, and Tokusaburo Matsuba[9]. He was first selected for the Korean national team at the 4th Asian Baseball Championship of the same year[8][Note 7], and led them to the runner-up. He achieved a no-hitter in the Incheon City Hall game of the Presidential Cup Autumn League on November 13, 1963, allowing only one walk. He showed incredible performance, such as winning 20 games and losing 5 in the amateur baseball league in 1964, but he suffered a shoulder injury from excessive pitching and retired in 1969.

Japanese Professional Baseball Era
In 2005, he became the team coordinator (coach treatment[4][6]) of the Chiba Lotte Marines, a team affiliated with the Pacific League[Note 8], and as the coach in charge of Lee Seung-yeop, who was struggling to adapt to Japanese baseball, he supported his revival from behind the scenes[6][Note 9]. He also took charge of the batting instruction of Toshiaki Imae[2] and Tomoya Satozaki[2]. He had the ability to identify technical problems caused by small changes in the form of the players since his time in Korea, and he was recognized for that ability by Lee Seung-yeop and other young players from Lotte, such as Naohisa Omatsu, and they also started asking him for one-point advice. After the 2005 season, the Lotte club aimed to keep Lee Seung-yeop, while highly evaluating Kim's coaching ability, and made him a 1st and 2nd team touring coach in 2006[10][2][6], becoming the first NPB official coach from KBO[6]. He retired at the end of the 2006 season with the expiration of his contract[Note 10].

After Returning to Japanese Professional Baseball
On January 19, 2018, it was announced that he would become a coaching advisor for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, a team affiliated with the Pacific League in Japan[3].

In 2022, he was registered as a coach as a 'Special Advisor to the Manager' and was given the number 71. He retired at the end of the same year[16].

Brief History
1982-1983 OB Bears Pitching Coach[5]
1984-1988 OB Bears Manager[5]
1989-1990 Taepyeongyang Dolphins Manager[5]
1991-1992 Samsung Lions Manager[5]
1994 Haitai Tigers Pitching Instructor[5]
1995 Haitai Tigers Second Team Manager[5]
1996-July 1997 Ssangbangwool Raiders Manager[5]
2000 Samsung Lions Second Team Manager[5]
2001 LG Twins Second Team Manager, First Team Head Coach, Acting Manager[Note 11]
2002 LG Twins Manager[5]
2005 Chiba Lotte Marines Team Coordinator[5] (Coach Treatment)[Note 12]
2006 Chiba Lotte Marines 1st and 2nd Team Touring Coach[10][20]
2007-August 2011 SK Wyverns Manager
2012-2014 Goyang Wonders Manager
2015-May 2017 Hanwha Eagles Manager
2022 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Special Advisor to the Manager