The Lotte Giants are a professional baseball team based in the southeastern city of Busan,South Korea,and one of the original franchises of the KBO League. The Lotte Giants are owned by Lotte Corporation,which also owns the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball.
The KBO League,officially as Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League for sponsorship,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 out of the 38 championships.
Lee Byung-hun is a South Korean actor and singer. He has received critical acclaim for his work in a wide range of genres,most notably Joint Security Area (2000);A Bittersweet Life (2005);The Good,the Bad,the Weird (2008);the television series Iris (2009);I Saw the Devil (2010);and Masquerade (2012). His critically acclaimed film Inside Men (2015) won him the Best Actor prize in three prestigious award ceremonies:52nd Baeksang Art Awards,37th Blue Dragon Awards and 53rd Grand Bell Awards. Lee has five films—Joint Security Area,The Good,the Bad,the Weird,Masquerade,Inside Men and Master—on the list of highest-grossing films in South Korea. Lee was Gallup Korea's Actor of the Year in the Film division in 2012 and in the Television division in 2018. In 2021,he had a recurring role in the Netflix survival drama series Squid Game.
Jeron Kennis Royster is a former Major League Baseball player and coach. He was a third baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers,Atlanta Braves,San Diego Padres,Chicago White Sox,and the New York Yankees. He was manager of the Milwaukee Brewers and the Lotte Giants in the Korea Baseball Organization. He is the cousin of former left fielder Greg Vaughn.
Jung Soo-Keun is a retired South Korean baseball player who played for the Doosan Bears and Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization. Jung won four consecutive stolen bases titles (1998-2001) in the KBO league. Over his career he compiled 474 stolen bases,a .280 batting average and 866 runs in 1544 games. His 474 stolen bases rank 4th behind Jeon Jun-Ho,Lee Jong-Beom,and Lee Dae-hyung.
Changcheon-dong is a dong,neighbourhood of Seodaemun-gu in Seoul,South Korea. The sole Mormon Temple in South Korea is located here.
Kim Min-jae is a coach for the Doosan Bears in the Korea Baseball Organization. Previously,Kim was a shortstop for the Lotte Giants,SK Wyverns and Hanwha Eagles. He batted and threw right-handed.
Kang Min-ho is a South Korean catcher who plays for the Samsung Lions in the Korea Baseball Organization. He previously played with the Lotte Giants. At the conclusion of the 2017 season,he left the Giants to join the Samsung Lions.
An Chi-hong is a South Korean infielder who plays for the Lotte Giants of the KBO League. He bats and throws right-handed.
Baseball is believed to have been introduced to Korea in 1905 by American missionaries during the Korean Empire,after which it gradually attained prominence. After the division of the Korean Peninsula into North Korea,backed by the Soviet Union and then-nascent People's Republic of China and South Korea,backed by the United States,in 1945 in the aftermath of World War II and the further destabilisation of the Korean War from 1950–53,baseball has become one of the most popular sports in South Korea. North Korea,under a communist regime,does not have the same level of investment in baseball as South Korea. There are 10 professional teams in South Korea's KBO League. Baseball season runs from March to October.
KBO Futures League or Korea Baseball Futures League is South Korea's second level of baseball,below the KBO League. It serves as a farm league with the purpose to develop professional players on-demand to play in the KBO League. The league consists of two divisions —the Southern League and the Northern League. These leagues are governed by the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO). The league plays an 80-game season.
Korean Police Baseball Team was a South Korean amateur baseball team that existed from 2005 to 2019,and competed in the KBO Futures League from 2006 through 2019. Their home stadium was Byeokje Baseball Stadium in Goyang. The team was controlled by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency,which itself is a division of the National Police Agency.
Byung-ho Park is a South Korean professional baseball designated hitter and first baseman for the Kiwoom Heroes of the KBO League. He previously played for the LG Twins,and Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). In the KBO,Park had two consecutive seasons with 50 home runs (2014–2015) and was the home run title winner for four consecutive seasons (2012–2015). He holds the KBO record for runs batted in during a single season,with 146 RBI in 2015.
Masquerade is a 2012 South Korean period drama film starring Lee Byung-hun in dual role as the bizarre King Gwanghae and the humble acrobat Ha-sun,who stands in for the monarch when he faces the threat of being poisoned.
Chang Won-jun is a South Korean starting pitcher for the Doosan Bears of the KBO League. He joined the Lotte Giants in the first draft in 2004. He played in the Lotte Giants from 2004 to 2014. On November 26,2014,he declared it to be in the free agent market on the expiration of its preferential negotiation. After that,he signed an agreement with Doosan Bears on November 29,2014.
The 2016 KBO League season was the 35th season in the history of the Korea Professional Baseball League.
Kang Young-sik is a South Korean professional baseball pitcher currently playing for the Lotte Giants of the KBO League.
Yang Jong-min is a South Korean infielder who currently plays for the LG Twins of the KBO League. He joined the Lotte Giants in the draft in 2009. He played in the Lotte Giants from 2009 to 2013. He transferred baseball team from Lotte Giants to Doosan Bears in 2014.
Baek Min-gi is a South Korean outfielder for the Doosan Bears of the KBO League. He graduated from Chung-Ang University. He joined the Lotte Giants in the draft in 2013. He played in the Lotte Giants from 2013 to 2015. In 2017,he was named and traded as a compensation player for Min Byung-hun,who moved from Doosan Bears to Lotte Giants through the FA.
Concrete Utopia is an upcoming South Korean disaster-thriller film directed by Um Tae-hwa and starring Lee Byung-hun,Park Seo-joon and Park Bo-young. The film is based on second part of webtoon Pleasant Bullying by Kim Sung-nik which is about an earthquake destruction and its aftermath. Principal photography began on April 16,2021.
