'The 11th baseball team was born?' Dom Stadium in Chungbuk → Roadmap to attract professional baseball teams opened
'The 11th baseball team was born?' Dom Stadium in Chungbuk → Roadmap to attract professional baseball teams opened
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Chungcheongbuk-do has built a multi-purpose dome stadium and started to consider the possibility of attracting professional baseball teams.
North Chungcheong Province Governor Kim Young-hwan met with Park No-joon, president of Wooseok University, at the North Chungcheong Provincial Office on the 5th to discuss in-depth the possibility of building a multi-purpose dome stadium in the province and attracting professional baseball teams.스포츠토토
President Park Roh-joon has played for the Haitai Tigers (currently KIA Tigers), OB Bears (currently Doosan Bears), and Ssangbangwool Raiders in the KBO League after serving at Korea University, and is a leading expert in baseball who has served as a KBO commentator and general manager of Woori Heroes (currently Kiwoom Heroes).
He is currently serving as president of Wooseok University and has continued his activities for sports development.
At the meeting, Governor Kim said, "We want to build a multi-purpose dome stadium as a complex cultural facility worthy of Chungbuk's status," and stressed, "The province has a willingness to support the budget and will strive to be used not only for baseball but also for various purposes such as soccer, concerts, and exhibitions."
In response, President Park said, "I visited all domed stadiums in person during the U.S. coaching training, and I know better than anyone else about domed stadiums in Korea as my opinions were reflected in the design process of Gocheok Sky Dome."
The two sides agreed to work closely on the roadmap for the establishment of the Chungbuk baseball team and the expansion of baseball infrastructure, and decided to continue negotiations to ensure that the dome stadium as a sports and cultural complex could be a turning point in regional development.
Previously, the province held discussions with various baseball elders, including former Hanwha Eagles coach Kim Eung-yong, on building a baseball stadium and attracting professional baseball teams.
The province's move is a stepping stone to replace the aging Cheongju baseball stadium and create a new sports complex along with attracting professional baseball teams to revitalize the city, including the influx of population.
In particular, it has a lot of baseball fans and thick sports fans in the province, which seems to have considered direct and indirect economic effects by attracting professional baseball teams. Based in Cheongju-si, province, professional soccer K League 2 Cheongju FC and Women's Professional Basketball (WKBL) Cheongju KB Stars are operated.
In particular, the Hanwha Eagles used Cheongju Baseball Stadium as their "second home stadium" until last year, with around 10 games held every year, but this year, they did not organize a single regular league game, which is considered one of the reasons.
Cheongju-si requested Hanwha to allocate six regular league home games earlier this year, but the club decided not to use Cheongju Baseball Stadium in consideration of the risk of injury to players, poor performance, and convenience of fans.
Cheongju Baseball Stadium, which has been around for nearly 50 years, has spent nearly 12 billion won over the past decade to point out that it is still old and inconvenient even in improving facilities such as replacing artificial turf, expanding outfield fences, and expanding dugouts.
With the key to securing the site and budget for building a dome stadium, President Park said, "Securing the budget for building a dome stadium can be found through specialized companies specializing in sports marketing and overseas cases, and there is sufficient possibility," adding, "We need sports and cultural complex facilities that can also be used as baseball stadiums, soccer fields and concert halls such as Japan's Sapporo Dome."