Hanwha Bird's Nest Hanwha Life Ball Park's regular season debut... opening with Song Jin-woo, Jung Min-cheol, Jang Jong-hoon, and Kim Tae-kyun's first pitch
Hanwha Bird's Nest Hanwha Life Ball Park's regular season debut... opening with Song Jin-woo, Jung Min-cheol, Jang Jong-hoon, and Kim Tae-kyun's first pitch
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Professional baseball, Hanwha Eagles' new home stadium, and Daejeon Hanwha Life Ball Park made their regular league debut.바카라사이트
The Hanwha Eagles played against the KIA Tigers in the home opener of the 2025 professional baseball league at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on Sunday. The game started with the first pitch from Hanwha legends Song Jin-woo, Jung Min-cheol, Jang Jong-hoon and Kim Tae-kyun. The Hanwha Eagles' Ryu Hyun-jin, Noh Si-hwan, Moon Dong-ju and Chae Eun-seong received the first pitch from their seniors, which added to the significance.
The first hit of the new ballpark during the regular season was made by Kim Seon-bin of the away team KIA. Kim Seon-bin pitched as the KIA's first batter in the top of the first inning and singled against Cody Ponce, the starting pitcher of the Hanwha Eagles. Ponce recorded his first strikeout of the new ballpark during the regular season against Patrick Wisdom, a foreign hitter of the Kia Tigers, with one out in the top of the second inning.
Daejeon Hanwha Life Ball Park was built with two basement floors and four ground floors (total floor area of about 58,539㎡) on the site of Hanbat Stadium near Daejeon Hanwha Life Eagles Park, which is its existing home stadium, at a cost of KRW 207.4 billion.
The new stadium attracted attention by installing unique facilities that were not seen in other stadiums. Daejeon City and Hanwha built an asymmetric left-right ground for the first time in Korea, and installed an 8-meter-high "Monster Wall" on the right fence. Behind the Monster Wall, there is a double-layered bullpen where spectators can check the pitchers' warm-up scenes in real time.
Construction of the new stadium started in March 2023 and was opened to the media last month after a two-year construction process. Afterwards, the stadium was opened to fans through an opening ceremony and exhibition games. Hanwha, which was given the authority to use it by the Daejeon Metropolitan Government on the 1st, completed internal construction in time for the opening game of its home game.
The Hanwha Eagles' new home stadium packed with spectators. Photo [Yonhap News]
Infinity Pool, the first baseball stadium to be installed in Korea, will be opened in mid-April in consideration of the safety of visitors. The sculpture of the 63rd building, which was built outside the central fence with a diameter of 4.3 meters and a height of 18 meters, was removed. Hanwha installed the 63rd building, which is owned by Hanwha Life Insurance and currently headquarters of Hanwha Life Insurance, as an advertisement concept, but dismantled the sculpture from July 26 to 27 under the direction of the Daejeon Metropolitan Government. The Daejeon Metropolitan Government recently announced that the 63rd building is not related to the identity of Daejeon and was constructed without a report.
Seventeen thousand tickets were sold out at 6:56 p.m. that day. Hanwha explained, "The stands at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon were composed of 20,7 seats, but the total number of seats was reduced after the process of adjusting the capacity due to the installation of specialized seats such as grass seats and Infinity Pool."
Teams from both teams generally expressed satisfaction with the new stadium environment. "Thank you for making such a great baseball stadium," Hanwha manager Kim Kyung-moon said before the game, and Kia manager Lee Bum-ho said, "It feels like I'm at a Major League Baseball stadium."