Checklist Translations: 1991 Lotte Gum Baseball Kings

      Taking a break from the Taiwanese sets, we venture over to South Korea and find this small set for the Korea Baseball Organization from the Lotte Gum company.  In 1991, Lotte Gum (롯데 껌) produced this 50-card "Baseball Kings" (야구 왕) set, featuring 10 cards per team, in packs of 2 cards and a piece of bubble gum for 200 won.  Packs can be found in red/orange, green, blue, purple and yellow.  Oddly some of the packs have images from MLB on the back.


Each pack contained cards from a single team:

Green (Cal Ripken, Jr./Mickey Tettleton/Gregg Olson on the box): Pacific Dolphins
Purple (generic batter on box): OB Bears
Blue (generic pitcher on box): Lotte Giants
Red/Orange (Mark Lemke? on the box): Binggrae Eagles
Yellow (Roberto Clemente on the box): Ssangbangwool Raiders

 

    The cards are fairly reminiscent of Calbee designs, but with a facsimile autograph on the front and the expected stats and biographical information on the back.  Despite the gum being packaged in its own plastic wrapper, a lot of the images I found of cards looked stained like this.  Not sure if this is from the gum, or just general poor handling by the owner.

    You can see some very good scans at this Korean blog, but the actual post isn't all that useful:

http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=a1231724&logNo=120160119737

    As I scoured the web to compile the checklist, I even found this Korean television commercial for the set on another blog:

http://www.adic.co.kr/gate/video/show.hjsp?id=W1339906&type=T

     Here is the checklist.  Much like names in Chinese, I've also found the English versions of Korean names to be somewhat fluid as the years go by, so the names below may not always be consistent with what you may find in your own searches, depending on the age of the resource you find.  At least the Korean version hasn't changed.  As usual, I've listed the names western-style as they can be found in the SportsCardForum.com Inventory Manager and at TradingCardDB.com.

Number	Korean	Name	Team
1	정명원	Myeong-Won Jeong	Pacific Dolphins
2	김동기	Dong-Ki Kim	Pacific Dolphins
3	원원근	Won-geun Won	Pacific Dolphins
4	이희성	Hei-Seong Lee	Pacific Dolphins
5	양상문	Sang-Mun Yang	Pacific Dolphins
6	김경기	Kyeong-Ki Kim	Pacific Dolphins
7	이선웅	Seon-Ung Lee	Pacific Dolphins
8	최창호	Chang-Ho Choi	Pacific Dolphins
9	박정현	Jeong-Hyeon Park	Pacific Dolphins
10	염경엽	Kyeong-Yeob Yeom	Pacific Dolphins
11	김상호	Sang-Ho Kim	OB Bears
12	박노준	No-Jun Park	OB Bears
13	김형석	Hyeong-Seok Kim	OB Bears
14	김광수	Kwang-Soo Kim	OB Bears
15	박철순	Cheol-Sun Park	OB Bears
16	구동우	Dong-Woo Goo	OB Bears
17	김동현	Hyeon-Dong Kim	OB Bears
18	김경문	Kyung-Moon Kim	OB Bears
19	김광림	Kwang-Rim Kim	OB Bears
20	김명수	Myeong-Soo Kim	OB Bears
21	이강돈	Kang-Don Lee	Binggrae Eagles
22	한희민	Hyi-Min Han	Binggrae Eagles
23	유승안	Seung-An Yu	Binggrae Eagles
24	이상군	Sang-Kun Lee	Binggrae Eagles
25	장종훈	Jong-Hoon Jang	Binggrae Eagles
26	용덕한	Yong-Deok Han	Binggrae Eagles
27	송전우	Jin-Woo Song	Binggrae Eagles
28	강석천	Seok-Cheon Kang	Binggrae Eagles
29	김상국	Sang-Gug Kim	Binggrae Eagles
30	이정훈	Jeong-Hun Lee	Binggrae Eagles
31	김청수	Cheong-Soo Kim	Lotte Giants
32	김응국	Yeung-Kuk Kim	Lotte Giants
33	장효조	Hyo-Jo Jang	Lotte Giants
34	윤학길	Hag-Gil Yun	Lotte Giants
35	박동희	Dong-Hyi Park	Lotte Giants
36	오대석	Dae-Seok Oh	Lotte Giants
37	한영준	Young-Jun Han	Lotte Giants
38	박정태	Jeong-Tae Park	Lotte Giants
39	김민호	Min-Ho Kim	Lotte Giants
40	전준호	Jun-Ho Jeon	Lotte Giants
41	조규제	Kyu-Jea Cho	Ssangbangwool Raiders
42	조용호	Yong-Ho Cho	Ssangbangwool Raiders
43	김기태	Ki-Tae Kim	Ssangbangwool Raiders
44	김만후	Man-Hu Kim	Ssangbangwool Raiders
45	김호근	Ho-Guen Kim	Ssangbangwool Raiders
46	송인호	In-Ho Song	Ssangbangwool Raiders
47	김평호	Pyeong-Ho Kim	Ssangbangwool Raiders
48	박상기	Sang-Ki Park	Ssangbangwool Raiders
49	김 호	Ho Kim	Ssangbangwool Raiders
50	윤 혁	Hyoek Yun	Ssangbangwool Raiders