The representative Korea of Korean Baseball 5, who joined the elite baseball players, aims to win for the first time → advance to the World Cup! "Participate in the 3rd Asia Cup."

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The Korean Baseball 5 national team will challenge for the top in Asia.

The Korea Baseball Softball Association (KBSA) announced on the 24th that it will send the Korean national team to the '3rd Baseball 5 Asia Cup' to be held in Hong Kong from March 27 to 31.

Nine countries, including South Korea and host Hong Kong, as well as Japan and Taiwan, will participate in this competition. Nine countries will be divided into three groups of three teams, and then the semifinals and finals will be held through the super round depending on the qualifying performance. The Korean national team was in Group A along with Hong Kong and Bangladesh.

South Korea succeeded in advancing to the World Cup by ranking third in the '1st Baseball 5 Asia Cup' held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2022. However, he unfortunately ranked fourth in the second competition held in Korea in 2024. In this Asian Cup, which marks its third anniversary, it aims to win for the first time in history beyond qualifying for the World Cup.

The national team has strengthened its power by reinforcing former elite baseball players such as captain Lee Han-byul and Kwon Jong-won, as well as Lee Hyun, Cho Ki-hyun and Joo Young-joon. Women's players were also joined by veteran Lee Ji-won, Lee Ji-yea and Won Chae-min from the under-18 national team, and softball players Jeong Seo-young and Kang Seung-bi.

Coach Kim Soo-yoon and trainer Shin Kyung-joon will assist coach Kim Young-woo, who led the "2025 World Baseball Softball Federation (WBSC) Under-18 Baseball 5 World Cup." Since the 18th, the national team has conducted reinforcement training in Korea at Hoengseong National Sports Center in Hoengseong-gun, Gangwon-do, and has completed preparations for the competition by focusing on teamwork training, including improving personal skills and stabilizing defensive formation.

Coach Kim Young-woo said, "I feel an infinite honor and responsibility to take over the national team once again. As all of the team members worked hard, he/she expressed his/her determination to shine the national flag by winning the competition, engraving the words that the sweat drops he/she has shed so far are not lies."

Baseball 5 is an event managed by WBSC for the global development of baseball and softball. It is characterized by the fact that the game is played only with bare hands without separate equipment such as bats and gloves, and it is rapidly spreading around the world due to few restrictions on location and personnel.

It was adopted as an official event for the 2026 Dakar Youth Olympics to be held in June. In line with this international trend, KBSA is striving to expand domestic distribution through holding national competitions, operating classes, and national sports training programs for elementary school teachers.

Meanwhile, the competition will be broadcast live on the official YouTube channel of the competition, and the Korean national team will leave at 8:10 a.m. on the 25th.

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