10.5 billion won will be invested → Baseball stadiums, complex sports stadiums, and indoor practice ranges...Winter training infrastructure will be established in Wando-gun

Mar 24, 2025

Photo courtesy=KBO

On the 21st, KBO and Wando-gun signed a 'South Coast Belt MOU' to develop baseball and revitalize the local economy, including winter training and competitions for domestic professional and amateur baseball teams and baseball-related events.

Wando-gun plans to complete the winter training infrastructure by investing a total of 10.5 billion won by 2027, including one official standard baseball stadium, one complex sports stadium such as baseball and soccer, and an indoor baseball practice field.

In addition, Wando-gun plans to develop a 「Player Healing Program" that allows professional and amateur baseball players to recover from fatigue accumulated by winter training and heal injuries and tired minds and bodies through the 『Ocean Healing Center" that opened last year. In addition, it plans to create winter training infrastructure and programs more differentiated than any other region in Korea, such as the completion of an indoor baseball practice range that allows training for all seasons regardless of the weather within this year.

Wando-gun County Governor Shin Woo-chul "We will create a luxury local government through sports through the KBO Southern Coast Belt MOU.", and asked for active cooperation between the KBO and the baseball community.

In response, President Hu Jie-yeon said, "We will do our best to ensure that public-private win-win cooperation for the development of Korean baseball and revitalization of the local economy continues by utilizing the newly established infrastructure in Wando, the clean sea capital of Korea."He expressed his gratitude to Mayor Shin Woo-chul and other Wando residents.

A bird's eye view of the southern coastal belt of Wando-gun. Photo courtesy =KBO

Meanwhile, President Koo Hu-yeon visited Haenam-gun to check the progress of the southern coastal belt infrastructure agreed to last year, and requested the expansion of baseball stadium lighting and improvement of existing youth hostels. In response, Mayor Myeong Hyeon-gwan of Haenam-gun said, "We will actively review the improvement and expansion of related facilities and make Honam's first baseball mecca, where many baseball teams visit Haenam-gun throughout the four seasons." he said.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.