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40th anniversary of the establishment of professional baseball started today (2nd).
As the number of people limit disappeared, more than 60,000 people from all over the country visited the baseball field, and enjoyed chicken and beer together.
Reporter Byung-min Yoo has been there.
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In the first year of the Corona 19 era, the opening game of professional baseball, which was sluggish with no spectators in 2020 and limited admission last year, gathered a cloud of spectators for the first time in three years.
In the sunny spring weather, more than 66,000 spectators came to five stadiums across the country, recording the highest number of spectators a day since the Corona 19 incident.
In order to prevent the spread of Corona 19, support for fostering is still prohibited, but starting this season, you can eat chicken, beer, and chimaek, the best part of the baseball field, at your own place.
The ballpark kiosks, which had had a hard time over the past two years, have come to life.
[The seasoning (chicken) is running out now.
All the beer is sold out.]
[Sim Seong-hoon/Gwangju Metropolitan City: I missed you so much.
such an atmosphere.
I hope the corona will disappear in the future so we can enjoy it more like this.] The
players also enjoyed the atmosphere of the baseball field full of heat after a long time.
[Eunseong Chae/LG Outfielder: I felt excited and my body was floating from the moment I went to warm up.
(Fan cheering) It sounds so good.
I feel like I am constantly receiving good energy.]
With the return of the spectators, our precious daily life is slowly recovering at the baseball field.
(Video coverage: Gong Jin-goo, video editing: Oh Young-taek)