Kang Kyung-min, the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Women's Handball 2022-2023 regular season, is moving to the SK Sugar Gliders.
The center back, who played for the Gwangju Urban Corporation until last season, became a free agent (FA) and will don the SK jersey on Sunday.
Kang is an iconic figure in Korean women's handball, having been named regular season MVP three times in the last four years, including the 2019-2020, 2020-2021, and 2022-2023 seasons.
In each of the seasons she was named MVP, she was also the league's top scorer.
Ahead of the Shinhan SOL Pay 2023-2024 Handball H League, which kicks off on Nov. 11, the women's division is seeing a flurry of transfers.
In addition to the transfer of Kang Kyung-min, national team core power Lee Im-kyung, who played for Busan Facilities Corporation, will move to Gyeongnam Development Corporation.
Im is a center back who was one of the leading scorers alongside Ryu Eun-hee (Gyori, Hungary) at the Asian Games in Hangzhou last month.
Samcheok City Hall, last season's Korea League champions, are pushing to sign Kim Sun-hwa, who played for Daegu City Hall.
If Kim chooses to join Samcheok, she will be reunited with her older sister Kim On-ah, who also plays for Samcheok.
Kim On-ah and Kim Sun-hwa played together for Incheon City Hall until last year.
Kim Won-na, who played for SK, is reportedly most likely to wear a Seoul City Hall uniform.
In addition, Gyeongnam Development Corporation will also take Kim A-young from Daegu City Hall, while Samcheok City Hall's Kang Eun-seo will move to Incheon City Hall for the 2023-2024 season.
In the 2023-2024 season, the H League Women's Division will only play against SK-Busan Facilities Corporation on the 11th and Seoul City Hall-Daegu City Hall on the 12th before taking a break for the World Championship.
The women's schedule will then resume in January 2024, and the transferred players will be eligible to play in the January 2024 games. 19가이드03