SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball club Kiwoom Heroes on Friday stripped their general manager, Im Eun-ju, of her duty amid controversy over her past misconduct as a football executive, only 10 days after making her the first female GM in league history. The Seoul-based Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) team said Kim [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Former FIFA referee Im Eun-ju made South Korean baseball history Tuesday by becoming the first female general manager of a Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) club. The Seoul-based Kiwoom Heroes also gave Im, 52, the title of team president in a move that was unprecedented on multiple levels. Im, who [...]
GWANGJU, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – A new, all-Korean team set to join the Australian Baseball League (ABL) this year held the first day of open tryouts on Monday, extending lifelines to castoffs ranging from failed former pros to undrafted high school graduates. The yet-to-be-named club, which will be based in Geelong, 75 kilometers southwest [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s megacity will try to turn the roads into air purifiers by developing a coating of photocatalytic substances that would absorb and cleanse hazardous exhaust emitted by vehicles. Photocatalysis describes the process of absorption of light and the breaking down of various chemical substances that are harmful to [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The arrival of baseball season has South Korean mobile carriers SK Telecom, KT and LG Uplus gearing up their marketing efforts employing cutting edge technology such as IoT, fifth-generation wireless networks (5G) and augmented reality to win the hearts of fans. With cumulative attendance figures of over 8 million [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball pitcher Kim Kwang-hyun has cut off his long locks for cancer-stricken children. The SK Wyverns in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said Monday that the left-hander got a haircut for a good cause following his start Sunday. He will donate his hair to make wigs for [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The KBO’s KT Wiz has come to an agreement with parent company KT to install a “Giga IoT Air Map” platform that would lower fine dust concentrations by injecting water into the air. The Air Map will be integrated into the operations of Suwon’s KT Wiz Park for the [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball on Thursday decided to adopt the no-pitch intentional walk starting in the upcoming season. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said the automatic intentional walk — whereby managers hoping to put a batter on base intentionally simply have to let the umpire know without making pitchers throw [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Before he left for the United States to join the Baltimore Orioles in winter of 2015, South Korean outfielder Kim Hyun-soo said he was determined to finish his playing career in the majors — so much that he said he’d consider himself “a failure” if he ever returned to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball club LG Twins said Wednesday they’ve failed to come to terms on a new deal with the American pitcher David Huff. Huff has pitched for the Seoul-based Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) club for the past two seasons, but the Twins said the two sides couldn’t [...]