SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Baseball has the most loyal fanbase among the four professional sports in South Korea, according to a report released by a local sports organization on Thursday. The Korea Professional Sports Association (KPSA) said that baseball fans in South Korea on average have supported their respective pro clubs for an [...]
INCHEON, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2017 Korean Baseball Organization season began on Friday at the Incheon SK Happy Dream Park, highlighted by the latest 5G technology and virtual and augmented reality. Before the game between the SK Wyverns and the KT Wiz, visitors had the chance to experience free VR rides in front [...]
URUMA, Japan, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – With less than a month to go before the first pitch is thrown, South Korea opened its training camp for the World Baseball Classic in Uruma, Okinawa. During the team’s ten-day training camp in Japan, it will play practice games against two Nippon Professional Baseball clubs – the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Orioles players showed up to practice Thursday before their last Red Sox game, but not in their own t-shirts, instead wearing Hangul (Korean alphabet) jerseys of Hyun-soo Kim, the team’s left fielder. The American club also announced that it will be distributing the free jerseys to all fans attending [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has been selected to host the first-round games of the international baseball competition next year. The organizers of the World Baseball Classic (WBC) announced on Tuesday that early rounds of its baseball tournament in the Asian region will be staged at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul and [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean baseball pitcher voluntarily reported that he had engaged in match-fixing schemes in 2014, the governing body of the country’s professional baseball said Sunday. Yoo Chang-sik, a left-handed pitcher for the Kia Tigers, confessed to his team on Saturday that he had deliberately walked a batter in [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting in 2017, all sales of beverages in disposable cups will be banned from baseball stadiums in Korea. The Ministry of Environment and the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) will sign an agreement called ‘Recycling of Resources to Establish Clean Baseball Stadiums’, and will be promoting the effort in order [...]
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, [...]