KBO Attendances Could Surpass Seven Million

With 48,529 tickets sold for the Korea Baseball Organization’s (KBO) Sunday games, the number of visitors to baseball stadiums this year hit 6 million and seems likely to smash last year’s record of 6,810,028.

As of Monday,6,046,019 fans have attended KBO fixturessince the season started in April. This is the second consecutive season the attendance figure has reached 6 million since the inception of professional baseball in Korea.

An average of 14,430 fans per game visited stadiums, which is 9 percent higher than last year. The momentum has caused the KBO to predict that the number will easily surpass 7 million.{jcomments on}