Hyeok-kyu Kwon

Hyeok-kyu Kwon has made eight appearances for Karlsruher in the 2025-2026 2. Bundesliga, with five starts and three substitute outings. He has not scored, which is broadly in line with a central defensive midfield role, but three yellow cards point to a player being asked to engage without the ball. The numbers suggest involvement rather than certainty – useful enough to start more often than not, but not yet an automatic fixture.

The career record supplied is limited, but the trajectory is clear enough: Kwon has already been attached to Busan I'Park, Celtic, St Mirren, Hibernian, Nantes and Karlsruher by age 25. Since the 2023 move from Korea Republic to Celtic, the pattern has been one of movement rather than consolidation – loans in Scotland, a permanent switch to Nantes, then another move to Germany.

Kwon’s transfer history reads as a player Celtic backed with upside, paying €860,000 to sign him from Busan I'Park in 2023, but he never appears to have settled into a clear first-team pathway. Loans to St Mirren and Hibernian were followed by a €220,000 move to Nantes, then an undisclosed switch to Karlsruher. The sequence suggests a step out of Celtic’s squad picture and into a search for regular senior minutes.