SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The NC Dinos will play an upcoming series of home games at an opponent’s stadium amid ongoing safety checks at their own ballpark in light of a fan’s death. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced Friday that the three-game set between the Dinos and the Lotte Giants, scheduled to [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — When the search term “Yonsei” suddenly trended on the CU convenience store chain’s mobile app on March 18, it wasn’t customers looking for the dairy company’s milk. Instead, Doosan Bears baseball fans were hunting for a new cream-filled pastry collaboration between CU, Yonsei Dairy, and their beloved team. The [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Kia Tigers will eye their second straight South Korean baseball title as the 2025 season of changes opens Saturday with five games across the country. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) will have its earliest start to a season this weekend, with the Tigers hosting the NC Dinos at [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — For the new Kiwoom Heroes pitcher Kenny Rosenberg, getting the first Opening Day nod in his first Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season is an “exciting” opportunity, but also one that comes with an added sense of responsibility. As the only foreign pitcher for the Heroes — they are the [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean baseball league announced Wednesday it set a new attendance record in the preseason this month, the latest sign of the sport’s massive popularity. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) said the 42 preseason games, played from March 8 to Tuesday, drew 321,763 fans, for a record 7,661 [...]
SEOUL, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Yasiel Puig, former National League All-Star back for a second tour of duty with the Kiwoom Heroes in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), has not played for a week in the ongoing preseason due to some muscle spasms. With the regular season just five days, though, the Heroes’ manager, [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Throughout his professional career that has spanned over a decade, Jake Cave has played for coaches who had once been great players. Now in his first season with the Doosan Bears in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), the American outfielder will be playing for a manager who still owns the Korean [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — With about 300 games spread over six partial Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) seasons under his belt, Doosan Bears shortstop Park Jun-young is trying to lock down an everyday job at age 27. Park was the Bears’ Opening Day shortstop last year but never established himself the rest of the [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Four games into the preseason in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), Doosan Bears manager Lee Seung-yuop isn’t happy with what he has seen from his young pitchers, the team’s 3-1-0 (wins-losses-ties) record notwithstanding. “They’re improving bit by bit, but they have to be better,” Lee told reporters at Jamsil [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The prelude to the 2025 regular season in South Korean baseball will begin Saturday, with the pitch clock, the most prominent new feature of the year, set to take effect. All 10 teams in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) are scheduled to play 10 preseason games each from Saturday [...]