Lee Yong-jun

Lee Yong-jun
Date of birth	4th February 1985
place of birth	Seoul , South Korea
size	177 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2001-2003	Kyung Bok High School
2003-2006	Yonsei University
2006-2011	High1
2011-2013	Anyang Halla
2013-2014	Daemyung Sangmu
2014-2016	Anyang Halla
since 2017	Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs

Korean spelling
Hangeul	이용준
Revised Romanization	I Yong-jun
McCune- Reischauer	I Yongjun
See also : Korean name

Lee Yong-jun (born February 4, 1985 in Seoul ) is a South Korean ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs in the Southern Professional Hockey League since 2017 .

Career

Lee Yong-jun began his career as a hockey player on the Kyung Bok High School team . From 2003 to 2006 he played for the team at Yonsei University , with which he won the 2004 South Korean Cup . In 2006 he moved to High1 (then still Kangwon Land ) in the Asia League Ice Hockey . With the team succeeded in 2007 and 2008 victory in the South Korean cup competition. In 2011 he left the Chuncheon team and joined Anyang Halla for two years . He spent the 2013/14 season with Daemyung Sangmu , the newly formed third South Korean team in the Asia League Ice Hockey. After only a year he returned to Halla in Anyang . Since 2017 he has played with the Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs in the Southern Professional Hockey League , a minor league in the southern United States.

International

For South Korea, Lee Yong-jun took part in the U18 World Cup in 2002 , which the South Koreans won undisputed with four double-digit wins in four games, in Division III and a year later in Division II, when promotion was also unbeaten, as well as U20 World Championships in 2004 and 2005 in Division II.

At the 2006 World Cup of Division II, Lee made his debut in the South Korean men's team . A year later he rose with the team at the home tournament in Seoul in Division I. In 2008 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , when he led his team onto the ice as captain, and in 2015 , when he was voted the best striker of the tournament, he represented South Korea in Division I. After relegation in the meantime, he was in 2009 for the East Asians once again in Division II on the ice.

At the Winter Asian Games in 2007 and 2011 , he was able to win the bronze medal with South Korea behind Japan and Kazakhstan .

Achievements and Awards

• 2002 Promotion to Division II at the U18 World Cup of Division III
• 2003 Promotion to Division I at the U18 World Cup, Division II, Group A.
• 2004 South Korean cup winner with Yonsei University
• 2007 bronze medal at the Winter Asian Games
• 2007 Promotion to Division I at the World Championship Division II, Group B
• 2007 South Korean cup winner with High1
• 2008 South Korean cup winner with High1
• 2009 Promotion to Division I at the World Cup Division II, Group B
• 2011 bronze medal at the Winter Asian Games
• 2012 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the World Championship Division I, Group B
• 2015 Promotion to Division I, Group A, at the World Championship of Division I, Group B
• 2015 Best Forward of the World Championship Division I, Group B

Asia League statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	10	272	49	152	201	290
Playoffs	7th	23	6th	7th	13	34

(Status: end of the 2015/16 season)

Web links

• Lee Yong-jun at eliteprospects.com (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Yong-jun is the first name.