Baseball
Baseball is very popular in South Korea. The league known as the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) was founded with 6 teams in 1982 and now has 8. Teams are named after the businesses that own them. The current teams are: Doosan Bears, Hanhwa Eagles, Kia Tigers, Lotte Giants, LG Twins, Samsung Lions, SK Wyverns, Seoul Heroes. Each team plays 126 games and the season ends with the championship known as the Korean Series. The season is roughly the same as here, about April-October. We hope to be in Korea during those months to catch a game!
Korea also enters a national team into the World Baseball Classic , which is going on now. It's been an exciting series so far for Korea. They beat China, Chinese Taipei and Taiwan. They played their rivals Japan twice. The first time, Japan crushed them but in the final game Korea won in a 1-0 victory. The games resume for Korea this weekend, March 15. Check out the World Baseball Classic website for the schedule. The picture below is from a game won against Japan in 2006.
4 comments:
We'd love to catch a game while we are there - that would be so much fun! Great info...
I love all of these lessons!
I was wondering if we could get a lesson on how much Korean's Love video games? And, about how much they love Star wars?
I really enjoy and appreciate your lessons...
Tracy
Their flag looks very much like the Pepsi logo!
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