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The KBO 2020 Shinhan Bank (SOL) League started today (5th). A total of 20 foreign journalists visited Jamsil Stadium and Incheon SK Happy Dream Stadium.
In most countries, pressing the ‘stop’ button for sports, and from mid-March to mid-March, the country that had suffered the most damage from Corona19 is because it is the ‘global news’ street.
Journalist Victoria Kim of the Los Angeles Times said: “The United States is not hosting a sporting event after the 19th Crown. Korea wanted to see what kind of process starts the regular season of professional sports and how the league is progressing.” Revealed
“Baseball is a very popular sport in the United States. Of course, interest in Korean professional baseball has grown in the United States,” he added.
Journalist Victoria Kim, a Korean correspondent for the LA Times for almost a year, said: “I have seen a Korean baseball game as a” spectator. ” It is definitely a different feeling when I report on Corona 19 on a Korean baseball field. “
He also asked, “Korean baseball is famous for its ‘culture of joy’, but how is it encouraged during the neglected period?”
On the same day, the local LG Twins team, which faced Doosan Bears at Jamsil Stadium, led the ‘Animation Team’.
The cheerleaders cheered on fans who watched a baseball broadcast on television, etc., wearing a mask.
For foreign journalists, it was as exciting a scene as the traditional culture of Korean baseball.
Japanese Ambassador Takuro Amagasaki of Nippon TV Seoul said: “We have not decided on the opening day of Japanese professional baseball, but we want to know how Korea begins to play baseball.” I want “.
Journalist Amagasaki also said: “Korean baseball can also be seen through SPOZONE in Japan. News that Japanese baseball fans will be welcome.”
At the ballpark, Al Jazeera, the mainstream media in the arid baseball country of the Middle East, attended a national media interview led by Yeom Kyung-yeop, SK Wyverns.
Reporter Rock McBride, correspondent for Al Jazeera, asked Director Yeom: “Impression of great interest from many people around the world.”
Director Yeom Kyung-yeop said: “I am delighted that the KBO League has received great interest.”
(Photo = Yonhap News)
