The Korea Herald

KBO creates 'fantasy' award

Mar 31, 2011

South Korea’s top professional baseball league said Wednesday it will launch a new award this season based on “fantasy baseball” points using real-life statistics for pitchers and position players. The Korea Baseball Organization announced the creation of the “Cass Point” award, named after a popular local beer. Oriental Brewery Co., which produces Cass beer, is the official sponsor of the award...
Dreams of October

Mar 29, 2011

KBO champions SK Wyverns to face strong challenge in their bid to repeat The SK Wyverns, which have won three of the past four championships in South Korean baseball, are once again considered a strong favorite. Led by the disciplinarian of a manager, Kim Sung-keun, they are a team built on pitching, defense and just enough hitting to put runs on the board. Though they haven’t made much improve...
Witness: Bonds blamed injury on steroids

Mar 29, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ― Barry Bonds’ former mistress testified Monday that he blamed a 1999 elbow injury on steroid use, and that the body and behavior of baseball’s home run king changed during their nine-year relationship. Called by prosecutors to the witness stand, Kimberly Bell choked up as she recalled Bonds once threatening “to cut my head off and leave me in a ditch,” an outburst prosecutors...
Motorola to launch its first tablet in S. Korea

Mar 29, 2011

Motorola Mobility Inc. said Tuesday that the company will roll out its first tablet computer in South Korea in April, heralding stiffer competition among tablet makers. The Xoom tablet computer, built on the latest version of Google Inc.'s Android platform called Honeycomb, will be launched through SK Telecom Co., the country's top mobile operator, the company's Korea unit president said in a pr...
NCsoft gets final approval as owner of expansion baseball team

Mar 29, 2011

NCsoft, a local online game company, received its final stamp of approval Tuesday to launch a new professional baseball team in South Korea. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) announced that NCsoft met the required support from owners of the league's eight existing teams. The league office said seven owners approved the expansion, and the company needed two-thirds of support. After the compa...
S. Korea's professional baseball starts its 30th season this weekend

Mar 29, 2011

Baseball, South Korea's most popular professional sport, will launch its 30th season this weekend, with all eight clubs in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) in action across the nation. The 2011 KBO season starts Saturday with four games starting at 2 p.m. in four cities. The defending champion SK Wyverns will open at home against the Nexen Heroes in Incheon, west of Seoul. The Kia Tigers wi...
Homer-happy Royals blast past Mariners 9-8

Mar 25, 2011

PEORIA, Arizona (AP) ― Melky Cabrera, Alex Gordon and Lance Zawadzki each hit two-run homers and the Kansas City Royals broke a four-game spring training losing streak with a 9-8 win over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday. The Royals trailed 4-0 before scoring nine straight runs, including five in the sixth. Pedro Feliz added a pair of RBI doubles and Bruce Chen gave up four runs on five hits in ...
Park struggles to adapt

Mar 14, 2011

It must have been a touchy week for Park Chan-ho, who is preparing for his debut season in the top Japanese baseball league. The veteran pitcher seems out of form, struggling to adapt to his new circumstances. The former major leaguer now plays in Japan after signing a one-year deal with the Orix Buffaloes of the Japanese Pacific League. Park is among the most highly paid players on the team, ...
Officials agree to provide extra players

Mar 9, 2011

The eight existing teams in the top-division South Korean professional baseball league decided on Tuesday to supply an expansion team with extra rookies and foreign players to help smooth its entry into the league. During their six-hour meeting over the future of the new club, to be run by local online game company NCsoft, the eight team presidents of the Korea Baseball Organization agreed that ...
Korean baseball teams set sights on record crowds

Mar 9, 2011

With about a month left until the start of the new season, teams in South Korea’s first-division professional baseball league said Wednesday they are hoping to draw a record number of fans in 2011. According to the Korea Baseball Organization, the combined number of fans that the eight teams hope to attract this season amounts to 6.63 million, surpassing the single-season record of 5.92 million ...
Choo deals with elbow soreness

Feb 28, 2011

GOODYEAR, Arizona (AP) ― Choo Shin-soo’s elbow is a little sore. Suddenly, the Cleveland Indians have another concern in their outfield. The club’s star right fielder was kept out of Cleveland’s starting lineup for the spring training opener against Cincinnati on Sunday to rest his left elbow, which flared up in recent days. Choo had Tommy John ligament-replacement surgery on the same elbow in 2...
Career revival

Feb 23, 2011

Kim Byung-hyun looks to regain pitching prowess in Japan After toiling in a baseball netherworld for almost three years, Kim Byung-hyun, a former Major League Baseball All-Star from South Korea, is trying to get back on his feet in Japan. Kim, 32, signed with the Rakuten Golden Eagles in the Nippon Professional Baseball last month, and as the team was preparing for the upcoming season here in O...
Yoon highlights Korea’s role in G20 accord

Feb 21, 2011

The Korean delegation played a key role in Paris hammering out the Group of 20’s agreement on economic indicators to address the global trade imbalance, Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun said. Finance ministers and central bank governors of the world’s 20 major economies agreed to narrow the list of economic indicators to detect signs of imbalances in their first meeting of the year over the week...
Online game company tabbed as owner of new baseball team

Feb 8, 2011

A South Korean online game company has been tabbed as the owner of a new local professional baseball team. The Korea Baseball Organization on Tuesday gave the green light to NCsoft Corps., the game developer, to begin work on founding the ninth club in the top-division baseball league in South Korea. The expansion team will be based in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, about 400 kilometers so...
Park Chan-ho eyes success in Japan

Jan 31, 2011

Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Park Chan-ho said he has plenty to learn as he prepares to relaunch his career at Japan’s Orix Buffaloes. “It is a big adventure to play baseball in Japan and it is a big chance as well. I’m very excited,” the 37-year-old South Korean veteran told a news conference in Osaka. “After I played against Japan at the World Baseball Classic, I have become increasingl...