✔ This video is part of the <Documentary View - Where Did All Those Baseball Players Go> broadcast on October 10, 2019. A retired baseball player must find his second life alone. Kim In-seong, who works as an electrical maintenance worker at a steel factory, is a former baseball player at Gwangju Ilgo High School. It has already been 4 years since he changed his job to become an electrician. What happened to In-seong, who was active as a baseball player from high school until after graduating from college? Kim In-seong trained harder than anyone else to advance to a bigger professional stage at Goyang Wonders, the first independent baseball team in Korea. However, what came to him was not an opportunity, but an injury. Having lived his whole life watching baseball, retirement due to an injury was a huge wound to In-seong. The emotional wound after quitting baseball was greater than expected. For 3 months, he lived in seclusion in his room, refusing to see his family or friends. However, In-seong, who could no longer live like this, left baseball, which he thought was his whole life, behind and began to find a new path. Let’s go into the story of In-seong’s second life, which was full of talk and trouble. Every athlete dreams of becoming a professional, but the reality is... Only 3-4% of elementary, middle, and high school athletes nationwide can get the chance to become a professional. Even for Son Myeong-gi, who dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player at Gwangju Ilgo 12 years ago, the wall to become a professional was high. He kept knocking on the door of professional baseball, but he was ultimately unable to achieve his dream. After that, he worked as a coach at a high school to train juniors and put them on the professional stage. The dream of his juniors is to become a professional, but Myeong-gi, who had to give up his dream once, knows that it is not easy. That is why he does not spare encouragement and advice to his juniors based on his own experience. Although Myeong-gi was unable to walk the path of professional baseball, he is one of those who is pursuing a path related to baseball. This also means that he cannot give up his dream of baseball. Mr. Myung-gi now hopes that his juniors will achieve the dreams he could not achieve, and he runs around the playground with his children today. Baseball, which was his whole life, is now a memory. Mr. Yang Yeong-ung is a former Gwangju Ilgo baseball player who touches a whole chicken instead of a baseball ball. Now, he is not a high school baseball prospect but a chicken restaurant owner. Even though he was considered a baseball prospect since childhood due to his good physique and skills, Mr. Yeong-ung could not avoid injuries. He suffered countless injuries and eventually ended his career as a baseball player. After that, Mr. Yeong-ung, who had been wandering without finding another path, suddenly dreamed of succeeding in the food service industry. He received advice from his aunt who runs a whole chicken restaurant in another region, and that is how his whole chicken was born. However, Mr. Yeong-ung is a rookie owner who still has a lot to learn, having only opened a whole chicken restaurant three months ago. Now that he has taken off his baseball uniform and put on an apron, how will his second life unfold? The lives of three people who will be redrawn as second lives other than baseball players are not over until they are over, just like the famous saying, “It’s not over until it’s over.” Their lives are not over until they are over! #Documentary Viewpoint #Baseball Prospects #Pro World Ya Sun-seo-gu #Second Life #Athlete