Theme: Sports Watching
Korea has a professional baseball league which was established in 1982. It consists of 8 teams and two of them are based at Seoul. They share same stadium, Jamsil Stadium, as home field. The system of the pennant race is a little complicated. The pennant race consists of 133 games. After the season, 3rd place and 4th place teams hold semi postseason matches. The team which won the first two games out of 3 games can get through to postseason matches. 2nd place team and the winner of semi postseason matches hold postseason matches and the team which won the first three games out of 5 games advance to the Korean series. 1st place team and the winner of postseason matches hold Korean series and the team which won the first four games out of 7 games becomes the champion of Korean league.
By the way, I heard an interesting episode about the birth of the baseball league. When Korean baseball league started, Chun Doo Hwan had been in a power as the president of South Korea. His regime was called a government under a military dictatorship and so many people hold antigovernment demonstrations very often. Chun Doo Hwan tried to establish a professional sport to resist criticism of his regime. That was the reason why Korean professional baseball was established. Of course I’m not sure if this story is true or not, but many Koreans believe it.
Equipment: Opera glasses are very useful to watch baseball games because baseball fields are very big. If you want to try to get a ball, you should prepare for a glove to catch it. Do you have favorite players? You should have a magic maker. With luck, you will be able to get autographs from them.
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on Jan 6, 2005
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