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The Choi Dong-won Award is baseball award in South Korea, bestowed upon the top starting pitcher in the KBO League each year.
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The Choi Dong-won Award is baseball award in South Korea, bestowed upon the top starting pitcher in the KBO League each year.
| Year | Pitcher | Team | Innings | W-L | Saves [C] | ERA | K's | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Yang Hyeon-jong | Kia Tigers | 171+1⁄3 | 16-8 | 0 | 4.25 | 165 | |
| 2015 | Yoo Hee-kwan | Doosan Bears | 189+2⁄3 | 18-5 | 0 | 3.94 | 126 | |
| 2016 | Chang Won-Jun | Doosan Bears | 168 | 15-6 | 0 | 3.32 | 137 | |
| 2017 | Yang Hyeon-jong | Kia Tigers | 193+1⁄3 | 20-6 | 0 | 3.44 | 158 | |
| 2018 | Josh Lindblom | Doosan Bears | 168+2⁄3 | 15-4 | 0 | 2.88 | 157 | |
| 2019 | Josh Lindblom | Doosan Bears | 194+2⁄3 | 20-3 | 0 | 2.50 | 189 | |
| 2020 | Raúl Alcántara | Doosan Bears | 198+2⁄3 | 20-2 | 0 | 2.54 | 182 | |
| 2021 | Ariel Miranda | Doosan Bears | 173+2⁄3 | 14-5 | 0 | 2.33 | 225 | [1] |
| 2022 | Kwang-hyun Kim | SSG Landers | 173+1⁄3 | 13-3 | 0 | 2.13 | 153 | |
| 2023 | Erick Fedde | NC Dinos | 180+1⁄3 | 20-6 | 0 | 2.00 | 209 | [2] |
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The KBO League, officially the Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League, is the highest level league of baseball in South Korea. The KBO League was founded with six franchises in 1982 and is the most popular sports league in South Korea. The Kia Tigers are the most successful team, having won 11 of the 40 championships.
Choi is a Korean family surname. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were around 2.3 million people by this name in South Korea or roughly 4.7% of the population. In English-speaking countries, it is most often anglicized Choi, and sometimes also Chey, Choe or Chwe. Ethnic Koreans in the former USSR prefer the form Tsoi (Tsoy) especially as a transcription of the Cyrillic Цой.
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Choi Dong-hoon is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He ranks as one of the most consistently successful directors working in contemporary Korean cinema, with all five of his films becoming commercial hits -- The Big Swindle attracted 2.12 million viewers, Tazza: The High Rollers at 6.84 million, Jeon Woo-chi: The Taoist Wizard at 6.13 million, The Thieves at 12.9 million, and Assassination at 12.7 million.
Choi Jin-sil was a South Korean actress. She was considered one of the best actresses in South Korea, nicknamed "The Nation's Actress" for playing leading roles in some of the highest-rated Korean dramas of all time such as Jealousy (1992), Stormy Season (1993), Star in My Heart (1997), You and I (1997) and My Rosy Life (2005). Widely considered the most popular actress of her time, she led the entertainment industry in terms of commercial success across advertising, broadcasting, and film. She played leading roles in 18 films and 20 television dramas, appeared in hundreds of advertisements, and won several awards. She was 39 when she died by suicide by hanging on October 2, 2008, at her home in Seoul.
Korea National University of Arts is a national university in Seoul, South Korea. Korea National University of Arts was established in 1993 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Korea as the only national university of arts with an aim to serve as a leading institution which cultivates artists. It has 26 departments in six schools: Schools of Music, Drama, Film, TV & Multimedia, Dance, Visual Arts, and Korean Traditional Arts.
The 1982 Amateur World Series was the 27th Amateur World Series (AWS), an international men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation. The tournament took place, for the only time, in South Korea, from 4 September to 14 September, and was won by South Korea in its first AWS victory.
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Perfect Game is a 2011 South Korean film based on the true story of rivals Sun Dong-yeol of the Haitai Tigers and Choi Dong-won of the Lotte Giants, the top pitchers in the Korea Baseball Organization league during the 1980s. The rivalry between the two was further heated up by regionalism at the time with Sun representing the Jeolla Province and Choi, the Gyeongsang Province.
My Rosy Life is a 2005 South Korean television drama series starring Choi Jin-sil, Son Hyun-joo, and Lee Tae-ran. It aired on KBS2 from August 24 to November 10, 2005 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 24 episodes.
Eyes of Dawn is a South Korean television series starring Choi Jae-sung, Chae Shi-ra and Park Sang-won. Directed by Kim Jong-hak and written by Song Ji-na based on the 10-volume novel of the same name by Kim Seong-jong, the story spans the years from the Japanese colonial period to World War II, Korea's liberation and the Korean War.
Assassination is a 2015 South Korean period action spy film co-written and directed by Choi Dong-hoon. The film, mainly set in 1930s Seoul and Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of Korea, depicts a group of Korean resistance fighters' plan to assassinate a highly ranked Japanese officer.
Prison Playbook is a 2017 South Korean television series directed by Shin Won-ho and starring Park Hae-soo and Jung Kyung-ho. The series marks Park Hae-soo's first-ever lead role. It aired from November 22, 2017, to January 18, 2018, on tvN's Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:10 (KST) time slot for 16 episodes.
The 2018 Korean Series is the championship series of the 2018 KBO League season. The Doosan Bears, as the regular season champions, automatically advanced to the Korean Series, where they faced the SK Wyverns. The series ran from November 4 to November 12.
When the Camellia Blooms is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Gong Hyo-jin, Kang Ha-neul, and Kim Ji-seok. It aired on KBS2's Wednesdays and Thursdays at 22:00 (KST) time slot from September 18 to November 21, 2019. Each episode was released on Netflix in South Korea and most Asia-Pacific and English speaking countries after their television broadcast.
Baseball Girl is a 2019 South Korean drama sports film written and directed by Choi Yoon-tae, starring Lee Joo-young, Lee Joon-hyuk, Yeom Hye-ran, Song Young-kyu and Kwak Dong-yeon. It was released in theaters on June 18, 2020.