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added later, one in 1986 and the other in 1989. Each team is sponsored by a different Korean corporation and plays a 133 game season. There are at present eight teams in the league. Foreign players joined local teams starting in the 1998 season. At present, 24 foreign players, from the United States, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and other countries are playing for the eight local teams. Korean youth teams are also very competitive and have fared particulary well in international competition. In 1984 and 1985 Korea won the Little League World Series which are held annually in Williamsport, PA, USA. In addition, at the AAA World Youth Baseball Champion-ships for 16 to 18 year-olds, the Korean team has finished in the top five a total of six times over the last 13 years. They won in 1981 and more recently in 1994. Recently, Korean baseball stars have begun to make a name for themselves in American and Japanese leagues. After a rough start in the Major Leagues, Park Chan-ho is now a starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers and Kim Byung-hyun is piling up strikeouts with the Bostone Red SOX. Choi Hee-sup is active as an upand-coming first-baseman for the Florida Marlins, a U.S. Major League Baseball team. 83 _ Sports and Leisure
84 _ HELLO from KOREA Soccer Korean people by tradition love soccer. Baseball and soccer enjoy broad appeal in Korea as both leisure and spectator sports. Some like it because it is simple to learn and play and does not require much equipment; others because to be good requires such an incredible balance of speed, stamina, coordination and awareness: and still others, because they just like to kick things. Korea was the first country in Asia to field a professional soccer team. The professional league, established in 1983, changed its name to the Korean League in 1998 and is currently comprised of ten teams. This league has firmly established Korea as a powerhouse in Asian soccer. Korea had the distinction of advancing to the FIFA World Cup finals five times in a row from the 1986 Mexico World Cup to the 2002 Korea- Japan World Cup. It became the Asian country to join the finals most frequently with six entries. The Korean football team surprised the world by qualifying for a semifinal berth. In 1983, Korea finished fourth in the World Youth Soccer competition held in Mexico, showing off promising signs to the soccer fans around
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