한국 최초 야구 경기에 대한 고찰

초록

This study aims to provide fundamental materials to establish a systematic Korean baseball history by considering baseball games played by foreigners published in 『The Independent』which is an English version of Dong-nip-shin-mun (The Independence Newspaper), first issued in 1896. According to the previous studies regarding baseball games, the game played in Incheon in 1899 was thought of as the first Korean baseball game. However, the first baseball game in Korea was already played between the USA marines and USA residents on April 25th in 1896. Since then, baseball games had been making much progress around the foreign residents in Seoul. In addition, not only did foreigners participated in the games held in Seoul, but also many koreans participated in these games as spectators. Therefore, the first Korean baseball game held in Seoul is considered as an important event which introduced modern sports culture to Koreans who were unfamiliar with modern sports.

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