The LG Twins () are a South Korean professional baseball team based in

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. They are a member of the

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. The Twins play their home games at

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, which they share with their rivals, the

Doosan Bears The Doosan Bears () are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Seoul. Founded in 1982, they are a member of the KBO League. The Bears have won six Korean Series titles (1982, 1995, 2001, 2015, 2016, and 2019) and play their home game ...

History

The club was established in 1982 as MBC Chungyong, owned by the

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. In the first part of the 1982 season, the team played at Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium; in the second part of the season, they moved to their current home,

. The Chungyong were initially led by player-manager

Baek In-chun Baek In-chun (born November 27, 1943) is a retired Korean professional baseball catcher, outfielder, player-manager and manager. Baek spent most of his career playing in Nippon Professional Baseball. He finished his career in Korea with the KBO L ...

, who had spent 19 seasons in Japan's

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. Aged 38, Baek led the league in hitting in 1982, with a record-setting .412 batting average.Hyun-kyung, Kang
"Baseball: Korean baseball shifting to Major League style,"
''The Korea Times'' (9 March 2017). As manager, Baek brought the Japanese " small ball" technique to his team, focusing on sacrifice bunts, stolen bases, and sacrifice flies. Although the team finished above .500 in 1982, Baek was dismissed by the team after the season. In , the franchise was acquired by the

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, which renamed the team the LG Twins. The following year, the Twins won their first

Korean Series The Korean Series () is the final championship series of the KBO League. 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, the winner of the Korean Series went on to play ...

title with Baek In-chun as their manager. In 1994, they won their second championship. The Korean Series MVP was

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in both Series, and his jersey number 41 was later retired. However, after their Korean Series appearance in 2002, the team went through the dark ages, not making the postseason for eleven years until 2013, when they earned the second seed in the regular season and qualified for the playoff series, where they were eliminated by the

. Between 2014 and 2022, the Twins made six postseason appearances, but failed to return to the Korean Series. In

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, they reached their first Korean Series since 2002 by virtue of winning the regular season title. In

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, the Twins, led by captain and Korean Series MVP

Oh Ji-hwan Oh Ji-hwan (; born March 12, 1990, in Gunsan, Jeollabuk-do) is a South Korean shortstop who plays for the LG Twins in the KBO League. He bats left-handed and throws right-handed. Amateur career While attending Kyunggi High School in Seoul, O ...

, defeated the

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4–1 in five games, ending the club's 29-year championship drought.

Season-by-season records

Team

Current lineup

Managers

(1982) *

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(1983) *

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(1984–1985) * Kim Dong-yeob (1986–1987) * Yu Baek-man (1988) *

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(1989) *

(1989–1991) * Lee Kwang-hwan (1992–1994) * Cheon Bo-seong (1995–1999) *

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(2000–2001) * Kim Sung-keun (2002) * Lee Kwang-hwan (2003) *

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(2004–2006) *

Kim Jae-bak Kim Jae-bak (; born May 23, 1954, in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean former professional baseball shortstop and manager. Nicknamed the "Ground Fox," he batted and threw right-handed. He played ten seasons in the KBO League, for the MBC C ...

(2007–2009) * (2010–2011) *

Kim Ki-tae Kim Ki-tai (; born May 23, 1969) is a former South Korean baseball player who played for the Ssangbangwool Raiders, Samsung Lions and SK Wyverns and is a former manager of Kia Tigers in the KBO League. He is generally considered as the KBO's b ...

(2012–2014) * Yang Sang-moon (2014–2017) * Ryu Joong-il (2018–2020) * Ryu Ji-hyun (2021–2022) *

Youm Kyoung-youb Youm Kyoung-youb (born March 1, 1968) is a South Korean former baseball player and the current manager of the KBO League team LG Twins. He previously managed the Nexen Heroes and the SK Wyverns. Youm played in the KBO from 1991 to 2000 for the ...

(2022–present)

In popular culture

The team featured prominently in the tvN drama ''

Reply 1994 ''Reply 1994'' () is a 2013 South Korean television series and the second installment of the ''Reply'' anthology series. It stars Go Ara, Jung Woo, Yoo Yeon-seok, Kim Sung-kyun, Son Ho-jun, Cha Sun-woo, Min Do-hee, Sung Dong-il, and Lee Il-hwa ...

'', where the team's 1994 head coach is a main character. In the drama, the team is referenced under a different name, "Seoul Twins" (), due to trademark issues with the

. In 2023,

TVING TVING () is a South Korean subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming television service operated by TVING Corporation, a joint venture comprising CJ ENM Entertainment Division (CJ Group), Naver and JTBC by its JTBC Studios, now calle ...

released the original documentary ''Our Game: LG Twins'', directed by Lee Hyun-hee, covering behind-the-scenes stories inside and outside the stadium. It received praise for its unique documentary and became the best original documentary in TVING's history in terms of paid subscriptions.

References

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External links

Official website
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