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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.
Several Korean players have also successfully transitioned from the KBO to American Major League Baseball, starting in 1994 with pitcher Chan Ho Park. (Prior to Park, the South Korea-born Mexican pitcher Ernesto Carlos [born as Lee Won-Kuk ] was signed to an American minor league contract with the San Francisco Giants ' organization in 1968 ...
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 Korea Baseball Organization (KBO; Korean: 한국야구위원회) is the governing body for the professional leagues of baseball in South Korea.The KBO was founded in 1981 and has governed two leagues: the KBO League (KBO 리그) and KBO Futures League (KBO 퓨처스리그 (farm league) since 1982.
Park represented the Korean national baseball team in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, leading his team to second place. In the 2010 season, Park became the first catcher in Korean baseball history to hit 300 career home runs. [citation needed] Park's 166 career hit-by-pitches are second-most in KBO history, after Choi Jeong. [1]
Park Jung-bae (Korean: 박정배; Hanja: 朴廷培, born April 1, 1982) was a South Korean professional baseball pitcher for the SK Wyverns of the KBO League. External links [ edit ]
Park joined his second 30–30 club in 1998 when he hit 30 home runs and stole a career-high 43 bases. After the season, Park was selected for the South Korea national baseball team and led his team to their first Asian Games gold medal in the baseball tournament, batting .455 with 3 home runs and 12 RBI.
The Gocheok Sky Dome (Korean: 고척스카이돔) [2] is a domed baseball stadium in Gocheok-dong, Seoul, South Korea.It is the home ballpark of KBO club Kiwoom Heroes. [3] The stadium is primarily used for baseball and has a capacity for 16,744 spectators for baseball games. [1]