Baseball Game in Seoul

Baseball is huge in Korea.  I didn’t even realize until I arrived in Seoul that South Korea won the gold medal for baseball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.  The stadium was located only a couple hundred meters away from the subway station. Really nice outdoor field…..

Tickets were only 4,000 Korean won, which is about $3.00 American.  Food and beverages were reasonably priced, just the same as a cheap restaurant in Korea, unlike the US where you get robbed at sporting events.  Another feature I appreciated was the decent audio. They had powerful loudspeakers throughout the stadium. The Korean baseball experience is part baseball game, music concert, comedy show, dance, and game-show all for less $5 US . It was definately one of the better values I’ve come across in Korea. Lots of video’s below…..

Probably the most entertaining baseball game I have ever been to. The place was erupting as Sam and I walked into the stadium. The footage above is what I saw within 5 seconds of walking in.  Korean baseball games are awesome.

I sat on the Doosan Bears side of the stadium, which happened to be the more enthusiastic crowd. The fans were really into the game, and went absolutely berserk when the Bears hit a triple run home run as you can see the clip above.

The Korean cheerleaders were really entertaining. I don’t know how they did it, but they were dancing away for just about half the game. It was  also drizzling a bit, but they seemed unaffected by the cold and the rain.

The video above was one of the more entertaining routines on the stage. When he wasn’t dancing, the male cheerleader above was basically the conductor of the whole Doosan Bears side of the stadium. He yelled, sang, danced, and blew his whistle throughout the game. The ladies went completely nuts for him. He is what girls here in Korea have described to me as ‘Korean style’ and what Korean girls find as the ideal look. Girls here don’t like big muscles and do not tolerate aggressive behavior from guys.

This is the conductor/male cheerleader you saw in the videos above with me in the photo above….

The video above was taken just after the guy cheerleader threw big packs of balloons out to the crowd to blow up and wave on his command.

After only a few minutes, the balloons are popped everywhere or bounced around in the crowd.  In the video above, I told Sam to ‘pop it’ but as you can hear in the clip, he replied as if I had asked him to pop my zit.

Here’s a longer clip of the team’s playing baseball. I actually snuck down to the floor of the stadium and caught some decent footage.

My new friend in Korea giving me a hug….