Hyunjun Yang, born on 25 May 2002 (age 24), is a South Korean right winger who wears number 13 for Celtic. He came through at Gangwon FC and had his clearest early impact there in 2022, scoring eight league goals in 36 appearances.
Celtic signed him from Gangwon in July 2023 for around £2m. Since then, his career has been shaped far more by Glasgow than by anything that came before it. Across four league seasons at Celtic he has made 81 appearances and scored 14 goals, a useful return for a wide player still developing the harder edges of his game.
His time at Celtic has already brought substance as well as minutes. Yang has won two Premiership titles, in 2024/25 and 2025/26, along with the 2024/25 League Cup and a Scottish Cup. That is not a bad platform for a player who arrived from the K League still having to prove how quickly he could adapt.
In 2026/27, he has remained part of the squad picture, with appearances in the league, Scottish Cup and Champions League qualifiers taking him to nine Celtic outings across all competitions so far. He has also been involved with Korea Republic, appearing in World Cup and Asian qualifying fixtures during the same period.
His current market value is around £4.5m, according to Transfermarkt. Yang is still in the phase where promise has to become regular authority, but Celtic is already the main chapter of his career.
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