SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The government announced Thursday it will form a task force on handling corruption in sports in light of a widening match-fixing scandal in professional baseball. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said its senior sports policy officials met with leaders of five pro sports federations Thursday to discuss [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean baseball pitcher voluntarily reported that he had engaged in match-fixing schemes in 2014, the governing body of the country’s professional baseball said Sunday. Yoo Chang-sik, a left-handed pitcher for the Kia Tigers, confessed to his team on Saturday that he had deliberately walked a batter in [...]
Eric Thames of the NC Dinos celebrates a victory with his teammates in Seoul on July 10, 2015. (Image: Yonhap) SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As the first half of the 2015 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season drew to a close Thursday night, two of the league’s premier sluggers, Park Byung-ho of the Nexen Heroes and [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Wyverns finally gave the “conditional approval on MLB posting” to Kwang-hyun Kim (26) who obtained FA status by completing his seventh KBO (the Korea Baseball Organization) season this year. SK Wyverns Baseball Club decided to allow Kwang-hyun Kim, who became qualified to play overseas after winning the gold medal at [...]