{"id":6607,"date":"2020-05-20T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=6607"},"modified":"2026-04-24T05:05:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:05:25","slug":"kbo-fans-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/kbo-fans-south-korea","title":{"rendered":"KBO considers fan return next month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Korean Baseball Organisation (KBO) may allow fans to return to stadiums as early as June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>South Korea.- The Korean Baseball Organisation (KBO) is considering whether to allow fans to return to stadiums as early as next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The league will monitor the gradual reopening of schools in South Korea and if successful, will allow fans inside stadiums once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KBO Secretary-General, Ryu Dae-hwan, said: &#8220;For now, we&#8217;ll have to see until next week how schools fare with their students back.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original plan was to allow fans back inside the grounds as early as May, but a spike in Covid-19 cases in South Korea prevented the league from doing so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sports-betting-baseball-south-korea\">bettors around the world are enjoying the KBO&#8217;s recent surge in popularity<\/a><\/em><\/strong> due to being broadcast on ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Korean Baseball Organisation (KBO) may allow fans to return to stadiums as early as June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Korean Baseball Organisation (KBO) is evaluating a June timeline for fan re-entry into stadiums, contingent on the successful reopening of schools in South Korea. This follows a previous delay in May due to a COVID-19 resurgence. The KBO has recently experienced a global surge in popularity among bettors, amplified by its broadcast on ESPN.","focusai_entities":"Korean Baseball Organisation, KBO, Ryu Dae-hwan, ESPN","focusai_location":"South Korea","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.7), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"KBO Betting Handle","query":"What is the projected impact on global sports betting handle for the KBO, specifically for regulated markets, if fan attendance is reinstated, considering the current surge in popularity driven by ESPN broadcasts?"},{"label":"Media Rights Strategy","query":"How might the KBO's demonstrated global appeal and betting market engagement, amplified by ESPN, influence its future media rights valuation and strategic partnerships with international broadcasters or betting operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,16338,155],"tags":[16759,152,233],"class_list":["post-6607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-sports-betting-news","tag-baseball","tag-south-korea","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21952,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6607\/revisions\/21952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}