SEOUL, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s professional baseball league announced Wednesday that it will hand out masks to fans to protect them against dust that continues to blanket the nation. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said it will distribute 75,000 masks to each of the league’s 10 clubs. A KBO official said the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — All it took was one bullpen session. Former high school two-way star Kang Baek-ho, who won South Korean baseball’s top rookie award last year as a slugging outfielder, has decided not to pursue pitching as a pro, his club KT Wiz announced Friday. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) club [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball club Kiwoom Heroes on Friday stripped their general manager, Im Eun-ju, of her duty amid controversy over her past misconduct as a football executive, only 10 days after making her the first female GM in league history. The Seoul-based Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) team said Kim [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The popular portal website Naver Corp. revealed yesterday that it will be implementing a new function on its website that allows users to replay home runs during Korean Series baseball matches airing live. The function is based on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The technology automatically recognizes home run sequences [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A task force composed of officials from the Military Manpower Administration and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism with the goal of improving the process of military service exemptions for artists and athletes was launched on October 1. Controversy surrounding the current system was sparked during the 2018 [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A new, all-Korean team set to join the Australian Baseball League (ABL) this year held the first day of open tryouts on Monday, extending lifelines to castoffs ranging from failed former pros to undrafted high school graduates. The yet-to-be-named club, which will be based in Geelong, 75 kilometers southwest [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — There was such a striking contrast. South Korean men’s football team and baseball team both won gold medals at the 18th Asian Games in Indonesia on Sept. 1. But you couldn’t tell it by the way they were received by fans, both during their run to the top and [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball on Thursday decided to adopt the no-pitch intentional walk starting in the upcoming season. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said the automatic intentional walk — whereby managers hoping to put a batter on base intentionally simply have to let the umpire know without making pitchers throw [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The head of the country’s top baseball league was named the new president of the national professional sports association on Tuesday. Chung Un-chan, commissioner of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), was appointed the second president of the Korea Professional Sports Association (KPSA). The KPSA was formed in November 2015, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Where Kim Ki-hoon and his friends go to play golf, the grass is always green and the weather is always perfect, unless the players do not want them that way. That is why the group of four prefers indoor, simulated screen golf clubs to actual courses, especially during the [...]