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The South Korean national baseball team (Korean: 대한민국 야구 국가대표팀), also known as the Blue Wave (Korean: 푸른물결), is the national baseball team of South Korea. It has participated in every edition of the World Baseball Classic (WBC), reaching the finals in 2009 , and won the WBSC Premier12 in 2015 .
The KBO League (Korean: KBO 리그) is the highest level league of baseball in South Korea, contested by ten teams. The KBO League was founded with six franchises in 1982 and is the most popular sports league in South Korea. [2] The Kia Tigers are the most successful team, having won 12 of the 43 championships.
In December 2023, it was announced that the 2024 season would be Choo Shin-soo's final season in professional baseball. Choo, who spent 15 years in Major League Baseball from 2005 to 2020, played in Seattle, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Texas. He turned 42 on July 13. Due to a shoulder injury, he was limited to playing only 77 of the 144 games ...
The KBO is a 10-team league. Each team plays 144 games, facing the other nine teams 16 times apiece. Games are declared ties after 12 innings (15 in the postseason), and those contests have no bearing on a team’s winning percentage.
The South Korea men's national basketball team (Korean: 대한민국 농구 국가대표팀) represents South Korea in international basketball competitions. They are administered by the Korea Basketball Association. Based on the number of overall medals won, South Korea is a major force among the national teams of FIBA Asia.
Baseball is believed to have been introduced to Korea in 1905 by American missionaries during the Korean Empire, after which it gradually attained prominence. [1] [2] After the division of the Korean Peninsula into North Korea and South Korea in 1945 and the further destabilisation of the Korean War from 1950–53, baseball has become one of the most popular sports in South Korea.
In South Korea, the opener means something else: the world’s top league has finally come to the baseball-loving Asian nation. South Korea’s 42-year-old domestic league is most known for its ...
The current annual numbering originates from the 1920 All-Korea Baseball Series and the formation of the Korean Sports Festival (조선체육회).The Japanese colonial government held a multi-sport competition in 1925, but the Korean Sports Festival first became a national multi-sport competition in 1934, with baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field, and basketball.