SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — With a ticket to the next round in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) postseason at stake, a pair of homegrown right-handers will square off in a rematch Friday evening. In Game 5 of the best-of-five first round, the home team LG Twins will start Im Chan-kyu at Jamsil Baseball [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Having lost his father during the 2021 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) season, LG Twins pitcher Im Chan-kyu thinks he knows what his grieving teammate, You Young-chan, is going through. And that makes Im appreciate the fellow pitcher that much more for what he was able to do Sunday. You, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The LG Twins and the Doosan Bears will temporarily relocate to the main Olympic stadium in southern Seoul while their current baseball stadium undergoes reconstruction, Seoul officials said Tuesday. As part of Seoul’s broader construction plan to transform the Jamsil area into a major sports and entertainment district, the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the first two months of his first season in South Korea, left-handed pitcher Dietrich Enns went from winning his Opening Day start for the defending champions LG Twins to having his manager declaring that his job was in jeopardy. Along the way, though, the 33-year-old American has been trying to [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Casey Kelly hasn’t been pitching for the LG Twins for as long as he has, and as well as he has, by staying the same. He understands that when there are only nine opposing teams over a 144-game season, he simply can’t afford to go after hitters the same [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Over the course of his managerial career in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO), LG Twins skipper Youm Kyoung-youb has sent a few players over to Major League Baseball (MLB), where they had varying degrees of success. The latest Youm disciple to take his talent to MLB is relief pitcher [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Group is gearing up to launch a massive promotional event to celebrate the first Korean Series victory of its professional baseball team, the LG Twins, in 29 years. Consumers, particularly those with high expectations for home electronics from LG Electronics, are eagerly anticipating the celebration. As per LG Group’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The LG Twins have secured the regular season crown in the KBO League, marking their first pennant win in 29 years. Since their last championship in 1994, the Twins have ranked second several times but mostly remained a middle to lower-tier team. After finishing as runners-up in the KBO pennant [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Roberto Ramos, a foreign player for South Korean baseball club LG Twins, held his wedding at the Mexican Embassy in South Korea, attracting media attention. Mexican Ambassador to South Korea Bruno Figueroa Fischer presided over the wedding. Ramos and his bride, Elsa Moreno Sanchez, were seen smiling as they [...]
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 [...]