Who Will The Padres Play in South Korea?

The full slate of 'Seoul Series' games has been revealed.
Who Will The Padres Play in South Korea?
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We’ve known since July that the Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers were set to open the 2024 regular season in Seoul, South Korea.

Now, we know the full scope of the “Seoul Series” in March.

In addition to the Dodgers, the Padres will face two Korean professional clubs and the Korean national team before their regular season openers, the games' organizers announced Tuesday.

The two Dodgers-Padres games are scheduled to begin at 3 a.m. Pacific Time. Times for the exhibition games have not yet been announced.

Notably, the Kiwoom Heroes and LG Twins finished last season on opposite sides of the KBO standings. The Twins beat the KT Wiz to win the Korean Series. The Heroes finished 27 1/2 games behind the Twins in the regular-season standings — 10th place among the 10 KBO teams. 

Exhibition games will be streamed via Coupang Play, whose stream is not available in the U.S. without a VPN. U.S. viewers who live outside the San Diego market can watch the regular season games on ESPN.

Expect Padres infielder Ha-Seong Kim, a native of nearby Bucheon, to figure heavily into the promotional efforts behind ticket sales — unless, of course, he's traded first.


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J.P. Hoornstra
J.P. HOORNSTRA

J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content for Halos Today and Inside the Padres, and is the author of 'The 50 Greatest Dodger Games Of All Time.' He once recorded a keyboard solo on the same album as two of the original Doors.