SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. sports cable giant ESPN will broadcast South Korean baseball games to its American audience, starting with the first day of the season on Tuesday. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Monday that ESPN has struck a deal with Eclat, the Korean company with international distribution rights to [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s leading mobile carrier, announced Friday that it will introduce a new 5GX Baseball Streaming Service using the over-the-top (OTT) service platform Wavve. The new 5GX service offers multiple points of view and allows users to watch a game from a maximum of 12 different [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Of the many signs that life in South Korea is returning to normal amid the global coronavirus pandemic, the start of a new baseball season may be among the clearest. After all, if it is safe for grownups to take their bats and gloves and play a game for [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league, for which the regular season is set to open on Tuesday, has become of the talk of town, drawing attention from sports officials and fans around the world, including Spain’s La Liga as well as Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and the U.S. sports [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — On many levels, the 2020 South Korean professional baseball season will be unlike any of the 38 that came before it. Because of the coronavirus outbreak earlier in the spring, the start of the new Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season was pushed back from March 28 to May 5, [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball club is holding a special event where the team collects autographs from all team members for its fans. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, contact between players and fans has been banned. The Lotte Giants, in response, created the event for fans to be able to obtain [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league, preparing for a new ‘crowdless’ season this year, is also coming up with plans for a phase-by-phase entry of fans aligned with the evolution of the coronavirus outbreak. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) secretariat and heads of the 10 teams held a board meeting [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. sports media giant ESPN was seeking free rights to broadcast South Korean professional baseball games, leading to a stalemate in its negotiations with its counterpart in Seoul, informed sources told Yonhap News Agency on Thursday. According to sources with knowledge of the talks, ESPN wanted to acquire rights [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Forget the crack of the bat — even the sound of the bat dropping to the ground has hardly seemed louder in a baseball game. The LG Twins and the Doosan Bears opened their Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) preseason in Seoul on Tuesday, without the presence of their typically [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — When baseball teams play games without fans in the stands, do they need cheerleaders? To which the SK Wyverns say, “Why not?” The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) is hoping to have the season start in early May, a little over a month after the original Opening Day of March [...]