Sports Chosun Reporter Lee Jong-seo, who dug into the contradictions of KBO record calculation, won the Korea Baseball Reporters' Association Baseball Reporters' Award
Apr 22, 2025
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The Korea Baseball Press Association announced on the 22nd that it won the Baseball Reporter's Award in the first quarter of 2025 (one in the reporting section and three in the planning section). The Baseball Press Association selects the best articles in the reporting (special news) and planning categories among all the articles covered and reported by more than 160 affiliated media and awards them quarterly.
Reporter Lee Jong-seo was named the winner of the planning category with three planned series '10 million KBO League, Blind Spot of Record'.
Reporter Lee identified the contradictions in the calculation of KBO records, which have been unreasonably neglected, and posted problems and improvement plans as three series planning articles through on-site coverage for a long time, causing great repercussions in the baseball world.
The irrational and contradictory errors in record calculation, which should be improved as soon as possible in terms of 'baseball is a sport of records', were identified through persistent on-site coverage from various angles, and the direction of future system improvement was suggested.
The report of the planning article had a great impact on the scene, including players, players' associations, and clubs who suffered from unreasonable record calculations
KBO is expected to improve the system after this season by reflecting the opinions of the field delivered through reporter Lee Jong-seo's planning article.
On the other hand, in the planning category, along with Lee Jong-seo's article, Sports Kyunghyang reporter Bae Jae-heung's 'University Baseball, in the middle of a crisis' and OSEN reporters Son Chan-ik, Lee Sang-hak, Cho Hyung-rae, and Lee Hu-kwang and Gil Joon-young's 'Pro-Amateur co-prosperity' were selected.
In the reporting sector, former Lotte Seo Joon-won, former reporter of Sports Seoul Park Yeon-jun 'Sex Crime → KBO Arms Disqualified' cannot even play in the independent league...Association "No registration of athletes"' was honored.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
