Overview
Son Heung-min is the highest-scoring Asian player in Premier League history and shared the 2021–22 Golden Boot with Mohamed Salah, scoring 23 goals without a single penalty. He captained Tottenham to the 2025 Europa League, the club's first trophy in seventeen years, and left immediately afterwards.
His solo goal against Burnley in 2019, running some seventy metres past seven players, won the Puskás Award. Olympic and Asian Games gold in 2018 exempted him from South Korea's compulsory military service. He joined LAFC in 2025 in the largest transfer in MLS history.
Clubs
International record: 134 caps and 53 goals for Korea Republic.
Honours
Major team and individual honours.
World Cup Appearances
Son Heung-min appeared at four FIFA World Cups.
Other Korea Republic Internationals
Other players profiled for this national team.