SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Since the release of the anime movie “The First Slam Dunk”, basketball has been gaining popularity among people of nearly all ages in South Korea. The success of the movie has led to a steady increase in the number of basketball clubs at universities and the availability of basketball [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of basketball merchandise have surged ever since “The First Slam Dunk,” a Japanese animated film based on the cartoon popular in the 1990s, hit the theaters. South Korean online shopping mall SSG.com saw its basketball-related sales from Jan. 11-18 jumped by 26 percent from last year for the [...]
ROME, Italy, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — ITA Airways is the Official Carrier of the Italian National Basketball Teams and will be flying them on their national and international trips with its aircrafts sporting new blue livery over the next three years. This important agreement between the Italian Basketball Federation and ITA Airways confirms the [...]
GENEVA and ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — FIBA 3×3, the successful discipline that celebrated its Olympic debut at Tokyo 2020 this summer, has become the latest sport to sign up for Sportradar Integrity Services’ Universal Fraud Detection System (UFDS). Sportradar Integrity Services is a unit of Sportradar (NASDAQ: SRAD) (“Sportradar” or “the Company”), a leading global sports technology company. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Unlike other professional sports, the Korean Basketball League (KBL) held its draft ceremony earlier this week with both players and team managers in attendance. The 2020 KBL draft took place at Jamsil Students’ Gymnasium in Seoul on Monday. KBL teams took turns selecting players in the afternoon following tryouts [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — With social distancing rules during the coronavirus pandemic eased across the nation, the top baseball league here will reopen stadium gates on Tuesday. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) made the announcement on Sunday, hours after the government decided to lower the level of social distancing restrictions from Level 2 [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Football and women’s basketball have a high percentage of family spectators, while men’s basketball and baseball are particularly popular among couples. According to a survey of 34,978 spectators of five professional sports and nine leagues by the Korean Professional Sports Association, the number of family visitors to football matches [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean men’s pro basketball season came to an abrupt end on Tuesday, with the coronavirus outbreak forcing a premature finish for the first time in the league’s 23-year history. The Korean Basketball League (KBL) announced Tuesday that the rest of its regular season and playoffs will be [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — There will be no more women’s pro basketball played in South Korea this spring in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The Women’s Korean Basketball League (WKBL) decided on Friday to scrap the rest of the regular season, which had been on hold since March 10, and to also [...]
SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean professional men’s basketball league will come to a screeching halt in the latest fallout from the spread of the novel coronavirus. The Korean Basketball League (KBL) announced Saturday that its regular season will be suspended indefinitely starting Sunday. Three games for Saturday were played as scheduled. [...]