My parents don't know the English-speaking story of pitcher Kwak Do-gyu who was born in 2004

Left-hander Kwak Do-gyu (20, Kia Tigers) was born in 2004. After graduating from Gongjeon High School, he joined KIA last year. He is a must-win pitcher this year, his second year as a pitcher. "He is a left-hander, but he expected that he would be able to take responsibility for more than one inning regardless of left or right-handed batters," said manager Lee Bum-ho from the spring camp. In fact, Kwak is blocking KIA's waist with all weather conditions along with his older brothers. In 19 games, he pitched 15 innings and posted one win and five holds an earned run average of 2.40.

Kwak has become more famous because of his interviews. I haven't interviewed him much before, but I was fascinated by a few interviews on TV, where I only picked out the sound that I heard filled my heart with outstanding speech. I suddenly met him at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field last weekend to dig into Kwak Do-kyu's "substantive nature," who was good at baseball and spoke well.

"I heard you study a lot. Is it true?" Kwak Do-gyu said, "Nothing is burdensome on the sound, but the image (which came out of nowhere) is burdensome. These days, I feel like I need to study well and show off my new vocabulary in every interview." "I only read one page a day. It's a book about mental health, and I think I become calm when I read just one page before I enter the game, so I made that habit into a routine. I studied English steadily last year, but I am not doing it this year because I am lazy."

Come to think of it, rumors are widely circulated that Kwak Do-gyu is good at English. Witnesses from KIA players and team staff say that he naturally communicates with foreign players and lives in the local area well in Australia's off-season training. He didn't live abroad, but he studied and talked for a year "last year" naturally? What happened.

"I studied really hard when I was a high school senior. Actually, my parents don't know. You might be surprised if you watch it, so I tried not to tell you at an interview forever," Kwak said.

Kwak Do-gyu, who suffered a slump in his third year of public high school, suddenly did not have confidence in his future. He thought that he should prepare in case he did not receive a professional nomination, so he prepared hard other than exercising to come up with an alternative. That was studying English.

Kwak Do-gyu said, "I really wanted to succeed in baseball, which I love, but when I went up to the third grade, my skills and mind were in a slump. I thought that I might not be able to become a professional player at this rate. If I did not receive the nomination, I was not confident to see my parents. Then, I had to make money, but since I knew nothing how to do it, I agonized over how to do it and prepared for the working holiday. I had extensive plans for how to go to Australia and start with the visa preparation. That's why I started studying English," he said. "I have told foreign players that I studied English because I wanted to learn baseball from them. Rather, I studied English first because I had to make money in other ways if things don't go well in my life."

Throughout my third year, I studied hard with an English learning application every day. I studied hard in Australia to earn money and survive, so I fiercely dug up conversations, not grammar and reading comprehension. While preparing for the second path by studying English, I did not give up baseball. Even if I was on vacation during the camp, I said that I had to exercise at home, and I stayed at my accommodation alone to exercise and study English during the remaining time. It was because I felt like I would weaken my mind after seeing my mother.

Fortunately, no injuries were reported. Nothing happened. Kwak got out of the slump by adjusting the angle of his arm, and as his skills improved again, he was drafted by Kia as the fifth round (42nd overall). "It was not so much a happy or happy moment, but rather a relief that I survived," Kwak said about the moment when he was drafted.

In February, Kia left for its spring camp in Canberra, Australia. Kwak said, "I had a lot of thoughts about going to the spring camp in Australia, where I thought I would go to the worst-case scenario, as I was evaluated as a promising player. When I think about it now, it is funny to think that I was just sensitive when I was a senior in high school." Kwak Do-gyu, a senior in high school, is now a pitcher for the first division of KIA.

Kwak Do-gyu writes in a baseball journal. He wrote down what he felt while training and playing games every day for six years since he was a first grader in middle school. He still writes in a baseball journal. Unlike when he was in school, he writes in a casual manner that no one recognizes now.

"It doesn't seem to have much meaning to rewatch the baseball diary. I just don't use bad emotions as much as I can, and even if it is distorted a little, I liked today's pitching," Kwak said. "Just spouting out bad emotions can make me feel psychologically comfortable," said Sean Anderson, who played with me last year. That's why I just use my spelling and spacing out awkwardly. I place a lot of meaning on expressing my feelings and feelings in doodles. These days, I seem to use a lot of information about how I focused without being suppressed by situations during games. "Even when I'm tired, I have a habit of organizing my days with that, and I think I'm getting ready for my next game."

The role model that Kwak wants to learn is not far away. He said he wants to learn everything about Lee Eui-ri (22), a senior player in the Kia Tigers who is two years younger than him. During the training together with his team at the Driveline Center in Seattle for one month from mid-December last year, he saw and learned many things.

Kwak Do-gyu said, "Since there are matches every day, it may be canceled due to rain or the interval between pitches can vary, but I think the most difficult thing is to keep your routine while adjusting it according to the circumstances. When I saw him last year, no matter what situation he was in, he had a fixed exercise to do, and he kept it. I thought I should learn that, but luckily, I went to Seattle with him, so I followed him around," adding, "I don't think I've ever seen anyone do something harder than him." He makes a year's worth of schedule in advance on a spreadsheet with a tablet PC and organizes things every day. Now I'm doing that, too. Just thinking that he just needs to do it like him gives me energy," he said.

BY: 토토사이트링크