SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Women’s archery team for the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics showed up for practice Sunday, but not at their usual archery center. Instead, team members appeared at a domed baseball stadium. The three members of the Olympics team – Jang Hye-jin, Ki Bo-bae, Choi Mi-sun – arrived at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - South Korean free agent outfielder Kim Hyun-soo has received offers from “multiple” Major League Baseball (MLB) clubs, an informed industry source told Yonhap News Agency on Friday. The source said that Kim has “concrete offers” on the table from the big league clubs but declined to identify the teams, citing [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Major League Baseball pitcher Park Chan-ho has provided equipment and a free lesson to a youth club in Vietnam, informed sources said Monday. Park, a goodwill ambassador for the Economic Development Cooperation Fund, met with the Hanoi-based club Hanoi Capitals last Friday, and offered them gloves and cleats, [...]
DAEGU, Jun. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A shepherd will catch the first pitch at a pro baseball game between Samsung and Hanhwa on June 11. Named ‘Top’, the three-year-old Belgian shepherd competed against a four-year-old Golden retriever before being selected. On June 11, Top will catch the first pitch, which will be thrown by a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean baseball club Samsung Lions on Tuesday denied a U.S. report that contained larger salary figures for a foreign player than what they announced last weekend, as the effects of abolishing the salary cap on imports came under scrutiny barely a year after the change. The Lions, the [...]