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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.
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 2023 World Baseball Classic championship was the final of the 2023 World Baseball Classic, the fifth edition of the World Baseball Classic, a men's international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) in partnership with World Baseball Classic Inc. (WBCI).
The 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball tournament and the fifth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. It began on March 8, 2023, and ran until March 21. It began on March 8, 2023, and ran until March 21.
Former logo of the BFA, now known as WBSC Asia. The birth of Baseball Federation of Asia goes back to 1954 when the 2nd Asian Games was held in Manila, Philippines.. The four countries of Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines organized a committee aiming at establishing the Baseball Federation of Asia and 7 May of the same year witnessed the commencement of BFA.
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 ...
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The economy of South Korea is a highly developed mixed economy. [19] [20] [21] By nominal GDP, the economy was worth ₩2.61 quadrillion (US$1.87 trillion).It has the 4th largest economy in Asia and the 12th largest in the world as of 2025. [3]