I wasn’t aware of this until I saw the Korea Times story linked on Baseball Think Factory, but there was some controversy at the Doosan/Lotte game in Busan Friday night. I was in Incheon at the SK/Woori game and didn’t see anything but a single highlight of the game ending home run on the news.
Apparently [...]

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Sorry, but this sounds ridiculous.
Cameron Hughes is his team’s biggest fan. Depending on his mood, he might pull off one of the multiple team jerseys he wears and spin it wildly in the air, scream at the top of his lungs, and exhort fellow supporters to do the same. Or he might pull an old [...]

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If you live in Korea you can watch tongiht’s  KBS follow-up to last month’s program exposing the disturbing tendency of women’s basketball coaches raping their players. If you don’t live in Korea you can just sit back and wretch while you read this.
From a Korea Beat translationof a Sports Chosun article:

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This is one of those reports, kind of like the recent series of articles about the Washington Huskies football team that makes me want to vomit. The Korean sports world is on fire as of late due to a recent news program reporting that the sexual abuse and harassment of female competitors by their male [...]

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PT from an article in Nikkan Sports:
A 16-year-old male gamer infatuated with the gothic dress worn by the fictional princess in an online role-playing game has been arrested for hacking into the game company’s servers and scamming a boatload of virtual money.
The game, called Mabinogi, is inspired by Celtic mythology, of South Korean orgin, but [...]

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