SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Professional baseball umpires have commenced their winter training to acquaint themselves with the pitch clock and Automatic Ball-Strike System (ABS), set to debut in the upcoming 2024 season. Often referred to as a “robot umpire,” ABS automatically assesses whether a pitch qualifies as a ball or a strike and promptly [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league will present its top individual trophies, including one for the most valuable player (MVP), next Monday in Seoul. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said Thursday that its annual KBO Awards ceremony will take place in the capital city at 2 p.m. in a Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league said Wednesday it will launch a voice narration service catering to visually impaired baseball fans. The service will be available at three baseball stadiums in Seoul, Busan and Gwangju — namely Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Sajik Baseball Stadium and Gwangju-Kia Champions Field — and will [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league said Thursday it has topped 1 million in attendance after 101 games this season, the fifth-fastest rate in the current 10-team setting. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced that its 10 teams combined to surpass the 1 million mark after the previous night’s games. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball club Kiwoom Heroes said Monday they will post reigning league MVP Lee Jung-hoo after the 2023 season, thereby granting Lee’s wish to take his talent to Major League Baseball (MLB). Lee first expressed his intent to play in the big leagues on Dec. 19. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league is trying to schedule regular season games in the United States at the start of the 2024 season, its commissioner said Thursday, disclosing the specific target dates for those games for the first time. Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) Commissioner Heo Koo-youn traveled to New [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Starting this weekend, fans attending South Korean professional baseball games and football games will be able to party like it’s 2019 again. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Friday the two-year ban on vocal cheering at ballparks will be lifted, effective immediately. The Korea Professional Football League (K League) [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s professional baseball league said Tuesday it will ask the sports ministry to lift the ban on cheering at ballparks as part of eased coronavirus restrictions, on the grounds that the activity poses few infection risks. Representatives from the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) and its 10 clubs will [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Baseball is back in South Korea, and so are fans in the stands. The 2022 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season opened on Saturday with all 10 clubs in action at five stadiums across the country. And all ballparks swung their gates open to welcome fans at full capacity, the [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of professional baseball in South Korea is in decline, especially among people in their 20s, the exact demographic that teams are trying to attract, a national poll showed Wednesday. Gallup Korea released results of its survey of 1,004 South Koreans aged 18 or older from March 15-17. [...]