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Korean national soccer team striker Hong Hyun-suk (25) who played for Belgium's pro soccer Hent moved to the German Bundesliga Mainz 05, and has advanced to the four major leagues in Europe. He is also expected to share a chance to play with Lee Jae-seong, a senior member of the Korean national soccer team.


Mainz announced the recruitment of Hong Hyun-seok on the 29th along with a picture parodying the drama "Squid Game" on the club's official SNS.


Hong was originally expected to move to Trabzonspor in Turkey where Lee Eul-yong played. However, as the transfer was delayed, Mainz, a pro-Korean club, reached out and headed to the Bundesliga, a higher stage.

Starting with Cha Du-ri, Mainz has had many Korean players, including Park Joo-ho, Koo Ja-cheol, and Ji Dong-won.

Hong Hyun-seok, who has been active since August 2022 with Hent, Belgium's top team, after going through Germany and Austria since his youth. In the meantime, he has become a player who is expected to be in the future due to the gold medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games and the selection of the national team.

It seems that the needs of the club who wants to collect the transfer fee by selling the player a year before the end of the contract with Hent and the player who wants to move to a team with better conditions at this opportunity have met each other.

Hong Hyun-seok will share the same rice with Lee Jae-sung, a "national team senior" who plays as a main player in Mainz.

Mainz remained dramatically at the risk of relegation from the second division last season, and in the Bundesliga opener this season, Jung Woo-young drew 1-1 with Union Berlin, who is on loan.