The Korean Series is the final championship series of the
KBO League
The KBO League (), officially the Shinhan Bank SOL KBO League, is the highest level league of baseball in South Korea. The KBO League was founded with six franchises in 1982 and is the most popular sports league in South Korea. The Kia Tigers ar ...
. It has been held since the KBO League's first season in and is the final series of the post-season
play-offs. From to
2013
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, the winner of the Korean Series went on to play in the
Asia Series.
The teams finishing in third and fourth place in the regular season face each other in the first round of the play-offs. The winner of the first round faces the team that finished in second place during the regular season, and the winner of that round faces the team that finished in first place for the championship in the Korean Series. The Wild Card Game between the teams finishing in fourth and fifth place in the regular season was added to the KBO League postseason in
2015
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.
All championships are a
best-of-seven playoff
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series between the league pennant winner and the winner of the second round of the play-offs. If the game ends in a tie, more games would be scheduled until any one of the teams wins four games.
Korean Series winners
''* Note: Winning team and losing team columns indicate the number of times that team has appeared in a Korean Series as well as each respective teams' Korean Series record to date.''
''* Note: Games in the KBO League have a limit to the number of extra innings and/or time that could be played before being officially declared a tied game (except in 2008 when this rule was removed). When post-season games were declared tied, they had to be replayed.''
Series appearances by club
In the sortable table below, teams are ordered first by number of appearances, then by number of wins, and finally by year of first appearance. In the "Season(s)" column, bold years indicate winning appearances.
See also
*
Korea Baseball Organization#Awards
*
Baseball awards#South Korea
Notes
* The 1982, 1983, 1993, and 2006 Korean Series each included one
tied game. The 2004 Korean Series had three tied games.
* No Korean Series played, the Samsung Lions won the title outright in the 1985 season.
* The Hyundai Unicorns franchise was disbanded at the end of the 2007 season.
References
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Recurring sporting events established in 1982
October sporting events