Park Hyo-joon started the 2024 Major League Baseball exhibition game against the Chicago White Sox at Glendale Camelback Ranch in Arizona on the 23rd (Korea time), and played 2 hits and 1 RBI in 4 at-bats, including a double. With this multi-hit game for the sixth time in an exhibition game, he elevated his batting…
NC Dinos left the first record in professional baseball history
NC won a thrilling 4-3 victory with Matthew Davidson’s finishing hit in the bottom of the ninth inning when it was 3-3 at the opening home game against the Doosan Bears in the 2024 KBO League regular season at NC Park in Changwon on the 23rd. Doosan was dominant up until early in the game….
Kim Woo-min won the men’s 400-meter freestyle in 3:42.71 at the 2024 Doha World Swimming Championships
Kim Woo-min won the men’s 1,500-meter freestyle final in 14:58:03 at the 2024 Paris Olympic Management National Championship (KB Financial Korea Swimming Championship) held at Gimcheon Indoor Swimming Pool in Gyeongsangbuk-do on the 22nd. Kim also passed the Olympic standard (OQT) of 15 minutes and 00 seconds 99 seconds, and won the berth to participate…
Park Jung-soo, Doosan’s new must-win group
Doosan decorated its first “Jamsil Derby” of the season against LG, which was held as a home game, with a winning series. The Doosan Bears, led by head coach Lee Seung-yeop, won the 2024 Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League LG Twins at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul on the 14th, with 11 hits, including one…
Yeonhaeju Casino & Hotel Complex Constructs Sept
A gambling area in Russia’s Primorsky Krai is building a new hotel and casino complex. The Primorsky Krai Development Corporation (KRPK) announced that the construction of the new complex will begin in September this year. Two years later: Asia-Invest Group LLC, a renowned construction and project management company, is overseeing the construction. In October 2021,…
PAGCOR privatizes, expects to attract $1.1 billion to Philippines; faces cancellation of PGO licenses
The privatization of the state-owned casino chain, proposed by Pagco’s chairman and CEO Alejandro Tengco and approved by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., is expected to increase from $60 billion ($1.06 billion) to $80 billion ($1.41 billion) in the Philippines. According to reports, Tengco offered a price point in the House of Representatives on Aug….
Kim Tae-gun and Han Jun-su lead the stabilization of KIA’s home turf
The boundaries of the main players have become blurred. KIA Tigers is leading the league with 14 wins and 4 losses (0.778) until the 15th. Thanks to the powerful pitching and batting balance, it was considered a candidate for the championship even before the opening, but with unexpected power support, the lead Mercury began to…
Tottenham suffered a 0-4 defeat against Newcastle in the 33rd round of the 2023-24 English Premier League
Tottenham suffered a 0-4 defeat against Newcastle in the 33rd round of the 2023-24 English Premier League (EPL) held at St. James’ Park in Newcastle, England on the 13th (Korea time). Tottenham dropped to fifth place with only 60 points (18 wins, 6 draws). For Tottenham, Guglielmo Vicario, Pedro Porro, Christian Romero, Mickey van der…
Universal Turns To Profits In 2022 As Okada Manila Rev Doubles
Japan’s Universal Entertainment, the founding parent of Okada Manila Casino Resort in the Philippines, posted a net profit of nearly 11.51 billion yen ($86.6 million) for all of 2022. That compared with a loss of 19.05 billion yen a year earlier. Overall group revenue rose 55.9% year-over-year to just under 141 billion yen in 2022,…
IR-backing Osaka governor re-elected, share of vote up
Hirofumi Yoshimura, the head of the Osaka Innovation party, was re-elected on Sunday as governor of Osaka prefecture, and with a 9.3 percentage-point increase in his share of the vote compared to the April 2019 election. Following his re-election, he gave comment on the Japanese metropolis’ tilt at having an integrated resort (IR) with casino….