Song Dong-hwan (; born February 4, 1980, in

Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ...

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) is a retired professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

player. Nicknamed "Asian Rocket", he won the scoring title with 31 goals in the 2005-2006 regular season for

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. Song was the first Korean player to do so. Song spent his entire professional career in

. Song was originally drafted by 'Dong-Won Dreams' (the club operation folded in 1998 from IMF Asia crises) 1st overall. He won the Rookie of the year trophy, Best6, 10-10 club. After the Dong-Won Dreams closed their operation, he signed with

Anyang Halla HL Anyang () is a professional ice hockey team based in Anyang (South Korea), Anyang in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It is one of the founding and current members of the Asia League Ice Hockey (ALIH). Formed in 1994, it is the oldest profess ...

in 2003, where he played 3 seasons from 2003 to 2006 before taking a leave of absence from hockey to serve his 2-year mandatory service in the South Korean military. Song returned to hockey in 2008 to play for Anyang Halla for another 3 seasons. Song played a lone season for the Japanese team Nikko Icebucks in 2011-12 before playing his final 4 seasons for Japanese team

High1 High1 () was an ice hockey team based in Seoul, South Korea. Formed in 2004, the team was initially made up of players from the defunct Korean Ice Hockey League who didn't immediately move to Anyang Halla from the Hyundai and Dongwon teams as we ...

from 2012 through 2016. He started playing hockey when he was grade 4, the former Korea University forward won the scoring title and was voted as MVP for 99-00' Korean League. He also led the team to the championship title for 01-02' season.

Career highlights

During a 1998 junior international game against Thailand, Song scored a record 31 goals in Korea's 92-0 victory. This feat was commemorated by the

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in Toronto, where his game jersey was displayed. 99-00' season MVP, Point leader 01-02' Won the Championship title with Korea University 02-03' signed with Dong Won Club, MVP, Best 6 03-04' Signed with Anyang Halla, played in Asia League All Star game (4 Goals), MVP 05-06' 38 games, 31G 31A 62 pts 2006 won the AL scoring

Career statistics

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Song, Dong-Hwan 1980 births Living people Ice hockey people from Seoul South Korean ice hockey right wingers HL Anyang players High1 players Nikkō Ice Bucks players Ice hockey players at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Ice hockey players at the 2011 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 2011 Asian Winter Games Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Asian Games medalists in ice hockey Competitors at the 2001 Winter Universiade