He participated in the AFC Youth Championship in 1978, where South Korea U-20 team was the joint winner with the Iraq U-20 team. In the following year, he was a member of the South Korea U-20 team that competed in the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship in Japan.
He was a founding member of K-League, and he scored the league's first goal on May 8, 1983 against Hallelujah FC. In his first season, he was the best scorer by scoring 9 goals.
At the end of the 1986 season, he moved to Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso. At Lucky-Goldstar, he scored his last K-League goal and K-League's 1,000th goal. The following season he went to Matzda FC in Japan's regional league with Kang Shin-woo. One year later, he retired from professional football.