No. 10–Suwon KT Sonicboom | |||||||||||||||
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Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||
League | Korean Basketball League | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
Born | Busan, South Korea | May 9, 1993||||||||||||||
Nationality | South Korean | ||||||||||||||
Listed height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 85 kg (187 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||||
High school | Kyungbock High School | ||||||||||||||
College | Korea University | ||||||||||||||
KBL draft | 2015: 1st round, 1st overall pick | ||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2015–present | ||||||||||||||
Career history | |||||||||||||||
2015–2023 | Anyang KGC | ||||||||||||||
2017–2019 | → Sangmu (military service) | ||||||||||||||
2023–present | Suwon KT Sonicboom | ||||||||||||||
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Korean name | |
Hangul | 문성곤 |
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Hanja | 文星坤 |
Revised Romanization | Mun Seong-gon |
McCune–Reischauer | Mun Sŏnggon |
Moon Seong-gon (born 9 May 1993) is a South Korean professional basketball player. He currently plays Suwon KT Sonicboom in the Korean Basketball League and the South Korean national team.
A native of Busan,Moon began playing basketball in elementary school. [1] [2] He moved to Seoul for middle school and attended Kyungbock High School,one of Seoul's most notable basketball schools. [3] While at Kyungbock,he and his juniors Choi Jun-yong and future Korea University teammate Lee Jong-hyun were dubbed the "Kyungbock Trio" by rival high school teams for their well-rounded offensive capabilities. [4] [1]
Moon played for Korea University,where he stood out for his shooting and defensive skills and earned his first call-up to the senior national team. During his senior year,he led the team to win a clean sweep of the U League regular season title,the championship title and the MBC Cup and was named U League regular season MVP. [5]
Moon was the first overall pick of the 2015 KBL rookie draft and was drafted by Anyang KGC. [5] [6] Although one of the draft class's biggest prospects,there were doubts over whether he would be able to break into a squad which already consisted of established veterans such as Kim Tae-sul,Yang Hee-jong,Lee Jung-hyun and Oh Se-keun,all of whom have represented the national team and had been playing together as a team for several seasons already. He made his debut on 31 October 2015 against Seoul SK Knights and was mostly a substitute player,averaging around seven minutes per game the entire season. [6] His second season was no different,although he played more games and Anyang KGC won both the regular season and the KBL Championship. [7]
Frustrated with the lack of playing time,he enlisted for mandatory military service in May 2017 and was assigned to the Sangmu team after completing basic training. [8] He was discharged in January 2019.
Since returning to Anyang KGC,Moon was given more playing time and became one of the mainstays of the team. Together with Yang,the duo gained a reputation as Anyang KGC's main defensive players,winning three KBL Defensive Player of the Year awards between them and being voted into the KBL Defensive Best 5 multiple times. Moon won the KBL Defensive Player of the Year for the first time in 2020,having averaged 2.1 steals per game and ranked first among domestic players. [9] [10] [7]
During the 2020-21 season,Moon averaged 1.8 steals and 0.7 blocks per game. His defensive skills were notably highlighted in the play-off semi-finals against Busan KT Sonicboom,in which he and Yang were able to hold back a team which had some of the league's most prolific young offensive players. [11] He won the KBL Defensive Player of the Year award for the second consecutive year. [12] [13]
Moon participated in the 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship. [14] He was first called up to the senior national team in 2013 by Yoo Jae-hak and made the final tournament squad for the FIBA Asia Championship that year. [1] He has been called up to the national team on multiple occasions but never made the final 12-man squad for any major tournaments since the 2015 FIBA Asia Championship as Moon Tae-jong,Choi Jun-yong and Yang Hee-jong were preferred in the small forward position.
Moon is married to skating coach and retired figure skater Kwak Min-jeong. [15] [16] Kwak had met Moon by coincidence as she was based in Anyang as a coach. They made their relationship public in 2020 and married in May 2021. [17]
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