SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — There’s no crying in baseball. And once the South Korean baseball league begins its regular season, there’ll be no spitting either. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) unveiled a manual for its 10 clubs on the coronavirus pandemic, including do’s and don’ts at the ballpark during the upcoming preseason and [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. sports broadcasting giant ESPN has approached the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) about possibly airing South Korean baseball games to the American audience, informed sources told Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday. The sources added that ESPN, for the time being, is showing only some passing interest, and nothing [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — It’s almost as if they’re operating in different countries. On one end, the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) is targeting an early May start to its regular season, after it was postponed from its original March 28 Opening Day because of the coronavirus outbreak. At the other end, the Korea [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — With each passing day, the South Korean baseball league is growing hopeful that it can still play a full, 144-game season, despite the wrench thrown by the coronavirus outbreak earlier in the year. The 2020 regular season for the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) would have begun on March 28 [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hey look, there’s baseball going on in South Korea. And even if you don’t live here, you can stream these games live and watch on demand. The global outbreak of the novel coronavirus has deprived baseball fans around the world of a chance to enjoy their annual ritual — [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With the nation struggling to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, playing baseball may seem like a trivial pursuit. But Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) clubs still have a job to do, and they’re trying to approach it in a cool, calm and collected manner, despite so much uncertainty [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean professional baseball league decided to push back the start of the regular season indefinitely on Tuesday, amid concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus. Following a meeting with club presidents, the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said the 2020 season will begin sometime in April, instead [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus continues to spread, teams from the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) are returning to South Korea following a series of overseas training programs. Members of the LG Twins baseball team gathered at LG Champion’s Park in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province on Monday for this winter’s third training camp [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league canceled all of its preseason games on Thursday in response to the recent surge in novel coronavirus infections across the country. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced that all 50 preseason games, scheduled to run from March 14 to 24, will be wiped out, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An automated ball-strike system will be introduced at in the Futures League, the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO)’s equivalent of the minor league. The KBO decided to develop and test the system over the next 20 games in the Futures League, and is currently looking for a subcontractor to oversee [...]