▲ 'UTS-KOREA CUP 2023 National University Baseball5 Championships' was held at Seoil Univ. on Sunday, December 10th. [Source from= UTS-KOREA]     ©Seok-mu Mason KWON

University students across the South Korea were united through Baseball5.

On Sunday, December 10th, the ‘UTS-KOREA CUP National University Baseball5 Championships’ was held at Seoil University Gymnasiu, in Seoul metropolis city. Ansan University (A/B Team), Seoil University, and Yongin University participated in this championships.

‘Baseball5,’ known international as ‘street baseball,’ and ‘fist baseball’ in Korea, is a small-scale baseball game that is played 5X5 as its name suggests. Among the new sports derived from regular baseball games, there are similar sports such as softball and T-ball, but Baseball5 is characterized by the simplicity of not even requiring a baseball bat and glove.

The World Baseball·Softball Confederation (President Riccardo FRACCARI, WBSC) developed Baseball5 in 2017 and made its debut as a demonstration sport for the 2018 Buenos Aires Summer Youth Olympics, and was adopted as an official sport of the 2026 Dakar Summer Youth Olympics.

The results of this championships were as follows:

▲First Place. Ansan Univ. Team A ▲Second Place. Asan Univ. Team B ▲Third Place. Seoil University ▲Participant Award. Yongin University 

The awarding ceremony was presented by Senior Vice-President Dr. Keon-sik HEO of UTS-KOREA, who is a senior director of World Martial Arts Masterships Committee (WMC).

UTS-KOREA (President Chang-jin LIM) is a public corporation (also known as, designated donation organization) of the Korean government tax service that has received approval from the headquarters of the United Through Sports (President Stephan FOX, UTS) in 2021. Together with the UTS headquartersm, which advocates the spirit of Olympic Movement of International Olympic Committee (President Thomas Bach, IOC), UTS-KOREA is working to create a world where youth around the world come together through sports.

▲ Commemorative photo of all prize winner [Source from= UTS-KOREA]     ©Seok-mu Mason KWON

▲ Awarding ceremony. [Source from= UTS-KOREA]     ©Seok-mu Mason KWON

▲ All of University Teams. [Source from= UTS-KOREA]     ©Seok-mu Mason KWON

▲ The game place in this championships. [Source from= UTS-KOREA]     ©Seok-mu Mason KWON

▲ Victory trophy in this championships. [Source from= UTS-KOREA]     ©Seok-mu Mason KWON