SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) is set to implement a substitute foreign player system beginning next season. This new system will permit teams to designate an injured foreign player for medical treatment lasting longer than six weeks and replace them with a substitute foreign player until the injured player is [...]
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, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea Baseball Organization has announced plans to introduce a sports agent system from next year, which will see agents contact baseball teams on behalf of players to negotiate salaries and marketing activities. The organization representing South Korea’s professional baseball players made the announcement during its third board of directors [...]