# Choi Jeong, 'No. 1 in KBO career home runs', is close to achieving 4,000 bases and 1,500 RBIs
Choi Jeong rewrites KBO history
[Choi Jeong](https://www.totosite.one) (SSG Landers), who is breaking the record for the most home runs (469, as of the 8th) in the Korean Professional Baseball KBO League, is approaching 4,000 bases and 1,500 RBIs.
Choi Jeong-eun is recording 3,993 bases and 1,485 RBI as of the 8th.
If he adds 7 bases, he will become the third player in [KBO](https://network-946571.mn.co/posts/54356370) history to reach the 4,000 base mark, following Lee Seung-yeop (4,077 bases), current manager of the Doosan Bears, and Choi Hyung-woo (4,033 bases, as of the 8th), who plays for the KIA Tigers.
Choi Jeong-eun recorded his first base hit on May 14, 2005, when he entered the professional ranks, hitting a hit against the Hanwha Eagles in Daejeon.
From 2006 to last year, he recorded triple-digit bases for 18 consecutive seasons.
In the 2017 season, he hit a personal high of 294 bases, and on April 8 of that year, in the Incheon NC Dinos game, he hit 4 home runs and recorded 16 bases, tying the record for most bases in a game in the KBO League. [파워볼사이트](https://www.outlookindia.com/outlook-spotlight/2024-powerball-site-recommended-ranking-safe-powerball-real-time-game-site-top15-news-334143)
If Choi Jeong-eun scores 15 more RBIs, he will set a record of 1,500 RBIs.
1,500 RBI is a record held by only one person, KIA [Choi Hyeong-woo](https://network-946571.mn.co/posts/54356454) (1,575 RBI).
Coach Lee Seung-yeop, who played in Japan for eight seasons, retired with 1,498 RBIs in the KBO League, short of reaching 1,500 RBIs.
Choi Jeong scored more than 50 RBIs for 17 consecutive seasons from 2007 to last year. He also achieved more than 100 RBI three times: in the 2016 (106 RBI), 2017 (113 RBI), and 2021 seasons (100 RBI).
[KBO plans](https://network-946571.mn.co/posts/54356577) to award a commemorative award to Choi Jeong when he reaches 4,000 bases and 1,500 RBIs. [한국야동](https://www.19guide03.com)