SEOUL, June 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Min-seo, a 16-year-old South Korean baseball player, was featured on an ESPN telecast of a Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) game on Sunday, expressing her hopes of meeting a fellow trailblazer calling the action in the United States. Park, who in 2016 became the first elementary school girl to [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2020 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season continues with a series of crowdless games as the coronavirus outbreak rages on. With the outbreak showing no signs of abating anytime soon, crowdless games are expected to continue for the time being. Crowdless stadiums deprive the players of cheers and shouts [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball’s minor league will start using “robot umpires” in August, a league official said Thursday. The official with the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said about 20 games in the Futures League will have the automated ball-strike system in place this season, and it will be used for [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecommunication firms said Saturday they have released various services and content related to the country’s professional baseball league as they try to attract baseball fans at home amid the coronavirus pandemic. The new Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season started May 5 after South Korea managed to flatten [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — International exposure will grow even more now for South Korean baseball. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Friday that, in addition to the United States and Japan, its games will be broadcast in 130 countries, including Canada, Mexico and the Netherlands. The rest of Europe, parts of Asia, the [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Eduardo Perez, a former major leaguer now working as a color commentator for ESPN, does not usually need a lot of sleep. But this spring, his sleeping schedule has been, in his own words, “obliterated,” because of his new assignment of calling live South Korean baseball games for the [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — After coming home from a hectic day at work, Patty Noakes likes to wind down by watching baseball on ESPN. But it is not just any baseball she is watching on the U.S. cable station these days. ESPN will be carrying six Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) games per week [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With the major league season not off the ground yet, the 2018 American League MVP Mookie Betts will continue to expand his role as a new global ambassador for South Korean baseball. Betts’ agency, VC Sports Group, announced Thursday that the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder has launched a digital [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league has hit a home run with its television and online ratings on the first day of the new season. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Wednesday that the five Opening Day games from the previous day had an average rating of 1.47 percent on [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Journalists from nearly 20 international media outlets flocked to baseball stadiums across South Korea on Tuesday, trying to get a glimpse into the nation emerging from the global coronavirus pandemic, with the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) launching its 2020 season. The regular season began across five ballparks Tuesday, the [...]