Fans take in a Korea Baseball Organization regular-season game between the home team Kia Tigers and the LG Twins at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field in Gwangju, 270 kilometers south of Seoul, in this Aug. 24, 2025, file photo. (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league broke its single-season attendance record Friday, with more than three weeks still left on the campaign.
The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced the total attendance for the season reached 10,901,173 after three games played Friday drew 52,119 fans.
The previous record of 10,887,705 was set only last year.
In 2025, the KBO cleared every million milestone in record speed, and topped the 10 million mark on Aug. 23, after 587 games, 84 games ahead of last year’s pace.
The KBO topped the previous single-season sellout record of 224 on July 25. With one more sellout Friday, the league now has 295 this year.
On Friday, the game between the Kiwoom Heroes and the Samsung Lions at Daegu Samsung Lions Park in the southeastern city of Daegu drew a sellout crowd of 24,000. It was the Lions’ 47th sellout this season, the second most in the league behind only the Hanwha Eagles’ record total of 55.
The Lotte Giants and the SSG Landers squared off at Incheon SSG Landers Field in Incheon, some 30 kilometers west of the capital, with 21,529 fans watching.
In Changwon, some 300 km southeast of Seoul, the NC Dinos took on the Doosan Bears with 6,590 fans on hand at Changwon NC Park.
The game between the Kia Tigers and the KT Wiz at Gwangju-Kia Champions Field in the southwestern city of Gwangju was rained out.
The regular season is scheduled to end Sept. 30.
(Yonhap)
