[월:] 2024년 07월

Kim broke the record for the highest annual salary in the eighth year of the KBO league. Kim signed an annual salary contract with 650 million won, an increase of 230 million won (54.8 percent), surpassing the previous highest annual salary of 550 million won for Na Sung-bum in his eighth year. This is the highest annual salary increase and highest annual salary among those who are eligible for the annual salary contract.

Kim Hye-sung led his team’s batting lineup last season by recording 186 hits in 556 times at bat, seven homers, 104 runs scored, 57 RBIs and a batting average of 0.335. He played as the center of the infield and won the Golden Glove Award for the third consecutive year.

Prior to her challenge to the Major League, she has set an eight-year-old record of highest annual salary. After the end of this season, Kim aims to advance to the Major League through the posting system.

During the last season, Kim did not publicly express his intention to advance to the Major League. However, he kept dreaming, and some teams were clearly keeping an eye on him. After the end of the season, he had interviews with his club to express his intention to advance to the Major League and received permission to push for posting.

Kiwoom released a press release on the 16th and said, “We have decided to accept Kim Hye-sung’s intention to challenge the Major League. In an interview with Ko Hyung-wook earlier in the day, Kim Hye-sung officially expressed his desire to enter the Major League as a posting system after the end of this season.” 에볼루션 바카라사이트

Kim Hye-seong responded to the club’s acceptance of posting, saying, “It is meaningful to me to challenge myself to a big stage. As much as my team supports me, I want to prepare hard for the rest of the year and achieve good results. I will do my best in everything I do as I always do.”

Kim Hui-jip, who recorded the most homeruns in his team last season, earned 110 million won (118,640 U.S. dollars), up 48.6 percent from the previous year, making his first salary worth 100 million won (118,870 dollars). In 110 games he played, he had a batting average of 0.249, an OPS of 0.712 and eight homers.

After finishing the season, Kim Hui-jip improved after experiencing the international stage at the APBC (Asia’s professional baseball championship) where young players participate. He also hit a home run that dealt a blow to Japan in the match against Korea and Japan, which drew the most attention.

Lee Ju-hyung, who showed potential by joining the LG Twins in the middle of the season through the Choi Won-tae trade, signed 66 million won (64,890 U.S. dollars) in annual salary and recorded a 100 percent increase rate. Lee Ju-hyung recorded a batting average of 0.326 with an OPS of 0.897 and six home runs in 69 games last year. He is considered the most notable player in 2024, which will be the first full-time year.

Ha Young-min and Lee Myung-jong, who helped the pitching staff in various positions, recorded 15 million won in raises, with 80 million won and 60 million won, respectively. Jang Jae-young, who recorded his first start win since his debut last season, signed a contract with an annual salary of 40 million won.

Of the 44 players eligible for the annual salary contract, a total of six, including one pitcher and five fielders, are paid hundreds of millions of dollars in annual salary. The following is the status of annual salary contracts for the 2024 season.

A local court accepted a pastor’s request, Thursday, to suspend the Korean Methodist Church’s (KMC) decision to excommunicate him for blessing sexual minorities.

The Suwon District Court decided in favor of Rev. Lee Dong-hwan, saying the effect of excommunication will be suspended until the ruling of the relevant lawsuit to annul the KMC decision comes out.

In October 2019, the KMC suspended him for two years for holding a blessing prayer for LGBTQ people at the Incheon Queer Culture Festival a month earlier. Then it excommunicated him in December last year for violating the church’s doctrine that prohibits any acts “favoring or sympathizing with homosexuality.”

While he appealed, the church’s judicial committee confirmed the excommunication in March, and he filed for the court injunction.

Unlike suspension or dismissal, excommunication is the highest level of punishment that would prevent him from ever setting foot in a religious order again. If the disposition is confirmed, Rev. Lee cannot return to the domestic Methodist Church even as a regular church member.

“The norm and evaluation of homosexuality has changed over time. The Constitution guarantees equal rights to all citizens, and the National Human Rights Commission of Korea prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation without a reasonable cause,” the court said.

“Considering these, the level of disciplinary action should be decided by reflecting every factor comprehensively. While excommunication means expulsion from the church, its decision was not made in that way.”

The court also said, “The freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, especially the freedom of expression on public interests, should be guaranteed as much as possible as an important constitutional right,” the ruling said.

Civic groups supporting Lee welcomed the decision.

“The ruling clearly revealed that the Methodist decision against Rev. Lee had serious problems not only in procedure but also in content,” the group said in a statement released, Friday. “We urge the Methodist Church to take the meaning of the 커뮤니티 ruling seriously, acknowledge the unfair disciplinary action made so far and withdraw the excommunication measure.”

A restaurant in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Okubo neighborhood has ignited controversy after displaying a notice refusing service to Korean and Chinese people. The Italian restaurant, located in the popular area known for its vibrant Korean community, posted a photo on X (formerly Twitter) that quickly went viral.

The photo shows a notice on the restaurant’s window written in Japanese. The message reads, “Although diversity and tolerance are frequently discussed these days, we refuse to serve Chinese and Korean customers because we do not wish to work with unpleasant thoughts.”

The notice has provoked strong reactions both in Japan and internationally. Japanese netizens have expressed their disapproval, with comments like, “Other customers might also decrease.” Another described the notice as “a racism warning.”

In Korea, the restaurant’s announcement has drawn sharp criticism. Comments online were posted such as, “At least write it in English; how can we know if it’s only in Japanese?” and “Is writing it in Korean or Chinese too frightening for them?” Many 토토 Korean users pointed out that Okubo, known for its Korea Town area, is an inappropriate place for such a discriminatory stance.

The restaurant’s Instagram account has also been inundated with protest comments. As of now, users have commented, “I will never go there and will inform others,” “I oppose discrimination,” and “It’s embarrassing as a Japanese person that a restaurant makes hate speech publicly.”

This incident is not the first time anti-Korean sentiment has surfaced in Japan. In 2016, a sushi restaurant in Osaka faced a backlash for serving sushi with excessive wasabi to Korean customers.

K-pop sensation Stray Kids has returned to the music scene with ambitions to devour the summer charts and leave no crumbs with its new mini-album “ATE.” The excitement is bolstered by the surprising news that all Stray Kids members have renewed their contracts with their current agency, JYP Entertainment.

Now heading into its seventh year since its debut, the eight-piece act — consisting of Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin and I.N. — has been actively expanding its global presence through extensive overseas promotions.

On July 14, the group headlined the BST Hyde Park music festival in London, the U.K., following their electrifying performance at I-Days Music 스포츠 Festival in Milan, Italy just two days earlier. The group is now looking forward to perform in the United States at Lollapalooza Chicago in August.

Building on its momentum, Stray Kids has now returned with “ATE,” just eight months after their Billboard-topping album, “ROCK-STAR.”

A few days ago I told my students that the difference between Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho is that while the former tells his stories through themes and symbolism, Bong’s movies are far more direct and focused on pushing the plot forward through action. Though we might want to see signs and symbols in the stairs and so on, ultimately, Bong is telling stories through plot. He’s putting certain characters in a specific situation, and then seeing what happens.

And then, having said this, I was later forced to cower before the majesty of this director. I watched “Memories of Murder” for the umpteenth time with a room full of students. I glanced pensively around the room, wondering if the Muslim students in the front might find the rape and masturbation scenes too much or whether the blue-haired American would stay awake. I didn’t predict that the Ghanian woman would scream and fall loudly off her chair halfway through when a killer emerges from the undergrowth and snatches a victim but that just added to the tension in the room. They all loved the movie though many found the ending frustrating.

Meanwhile, having previously decried its absence, I found Bong’s symbolism: the abyss. A dark blackness that stands unapologetically in his films. A space devoid of light. Both psychological and physical. It is the train tunnel in “Memories of Murder,” the alley in “Mother,” and the basement in “Parasite.” That darkness is the host of that which we do not want to see. It is our shadow, as both individuals and a species. It is the place where the dark thoughts linger; where the wild things are. It is there in which the monster sleeps. As viewers, and for the characters themselves, we must beware. We must take heed of Nietzsche’s warning: If you stare into the abyss, the 한국을 abyss stares back. Investigate murder long enough and you will get a taste for it. And this is what Bong asks us to do. He shows us the black aspects of our nature, the ones which are usually absent in movies and literature, and then he does something horrific. Not only does he say that both the good guy and the bad guy have a connection to the abyss, we too, the audience, are connected to it in a way. We must reflect on our own shadows. Would we kill to protect our own children? Would we want to murder a suspect so as to stop them killing again? Would we steal for food?

Imanaga started the game against the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California on the 28th (Korea Standard Time) and allowed five hits, two walks, three strikeouts and three runs in six innings. 메이저사이트

After starting the game with three outs in the bottom of the first inning, Imanaga walked leadoff hitter Matt Chapman in the second inning, but Jorge Soler was caught with a fly ball to the center field, and Luis Matos struck out. Tyro Estrada grounded out to the third base to end the inning.

With the Cubs leading 3-0 in the third inning, Nick Ahmed, the leadoff hitter, walked, and was on the verge of losing the first and second bases with no outs. Austin Slater hit a ground ball to the third base, and the second baseman was out at the third base. Heliot Ramos struck out swinging, and Wilmer Flores caught a fly ball to the second base to escape the crisis without allowing a run.

Imana, who had three outs in succession in the fourth and fifth innings, had a hit by the leadoff hitter Slater in the sixth inning. After taking a breather after catching both Ramos and Flores with fly balls, Imana got a hit by Chapman and gave up her first run of the game on the day by hitting an RBI double by Soler. Imana, who gave up one more run on a wild pitch, ended up allowing Matos to tie the game 3-3. In the seventh inning, he was replaced by Luke Rittell. The Cubs won the game 5-3 after extra time.

Imanaga threw 93 pitches on the day. He threw four-seam (66 pitches), splitter (19 pitches), sweeper (6 pitches) and curveball (2 pitches), and his maximum four-seam speed was 94.6 miles (152.2 kilometers). The ratio of swing and miss of the splitter stood at 29 percent.

Imana, who recorded 64 wins, 50 losses and four holds with an ERA of 3.18 in 165 games (1002 ⅔ innings) in the eight seasons (2016-2023), is one of Japan’s veteran left-handers. She signed a four-year, 53 million-dollar contract with the Cubs this season to successfully advance to the Major League. She showed overwhelming pitching in the early days of the season and won the Rookie of the Year award in the National League in April, showing good performance.

However, he seems to be struggling greatly in June. Imanaga, who began to falter after losing four ⅓ innings against Milwaukee on the 30th of last month, had only two wins, one loss and a 5.67 ERA in five games (27 innings) in June. On the 22nd, he had his worst pitching since his Major League debut with 11 hits (three homers) and one walk, three strikeouts and 10 runs loss against the Mets. He had a quality start in the game on the day, but posted seven wins and two losses and an ERA of 3.07 in 15 games (85 innings), raising his ERA, which had been lowered to 0.84 on the 19th of last month.

Although they are rivals, the current situation has changed for both teams. While the Los Angeles Dodgers is firmly at the top of the Western Division, San Francisco is ranked fourth with an 11.5 game gap. Although the team lost consecutive wins, the key is whether San Francisco, which has been on the rise at home, can regain its status as a rival against the Dodgers.

Dodgers is leading the way in recent years, but historically, the two teams have been fiercely competing. In a total of 2,578 games including this season, Dodgers had 1,278 wins, San Francisco had 1,283 wins, and there were 17 draws. Dodgers is leading Dodgers with 42 wins and 25 losses in recent four years, however. Attention is focusing on how San Francisco, which has been weak against Dodgers for years, will fare in this showdown.

Meanwhile, Ohtani, who is playing as a leadoff due to Mookie Betts’ injury, is having a phenomenal June. As of Korean time on Friday, he is ranking first in batting average (0.322), and is flying fast with No. 1 in home runs (25), No. 1 in OPS (1.045), and No. 2 in RBIs in the National League. As a superstar, he is also breaking team records. He has posted RBIs in 10 consecutive games. This is the new record for a Dodgers player to have RBIs in a game in a single season. In addition, he had hit the leadoff homerun twice in the top of the first inning in three consecutive games against the Chicago White Sox, showing impressive batting performance.

Along with Ohtani’s run, other Dodgers players are also showing off their amazing performance. Gavin Stone has won the Dodgers rookie shutout for the first time in 11 years since Ryu Hyun-jin in 2013 and has won four consecutive games. He has a formidable pace of eight wins and two losses in recent 10 games. He is also very strong in away games, with 26 wins and 15 losses. San Francisco has also won three consecutive games, signaling a rebound. Logan Webb and Eric Miller will lead the team to win the rivalry game. 파워볼사이트

In the game on the 29th, the first of the three consecutive games between the two teams, KBO commentator Lee Dae-hyung will come to the Major League’s broadcasting table. It is the first time that commentator Lee Dae-hyung, who is currently receiving great support from fans for his customized commentary on the KBO base play, is broadcasting the Major League. “It will be difficult because it is not a field broadcast, but the league is different, but I will broadcast it in my own style,” said Lee Dae-hyung, a commentator who served as a special commentator for the “MLB’s traditional rival match.”

The battle to become the leader of the Major League Baseball (MLB) is drawing keen attention. The New York Yankees, which have been leading the American League East, have recently lost four consecutive games. The Baltimore Orioles, which were aiming to overtake the Hoshimam Yankees at the second place, have regained the lead by winning consecutive games.

The Yankees lost to the Toronto Blue Jays 2-9 in an away game on Monday (Korea time). After being pushed back from the beginning of the game, they ended up losing the game. They lost five points in the bottom of the first inning, and lost three more in the bottom of the second inning. They trailed by two runs in the top of the fifth inning, but lost one more point in the bottom of the sixth inning, effectively lifting their spirits. The entire team was bogged down in a four-game losing streak amid three hits and an empty stomach. Aaron Judge, the third designated hitter, also had no hits and two strikeouts in four times at bat. 파워볼사이트

In the last eight games, she has posted one win and seven losses. She lost to the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday and Sunday, and lost to the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday, 1-8. She beat the Atlanta Braves 8-3 on Sunday, snapping away consecutive losses. However, she lost to the Atlanta Braves 1-3 on Sunday, and lost to the New York Mets on Wednesday and Thursday in succession. She also lost to the Toronto Blue Jays, which are ranking last in the American League East, on Sunday, falling to second place in the district. She faced the biggest crisis amid the discord between pitching and hitting.

The loss marked 52 wins and 31 losses in this season. Although the team still has the largest number of wins in the American League, the team fell to second place in the American League East. It allowed Baltimore, which recorded 51 wins and 30 losses, to pass the team. It lost the lead by three runs behind the winning rate (0.627 Yankees, 0.630 Baltimore).

Baltimore won a home game against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, securing its second consecutive win. It had 14 hits in both directions, and garnered great victory. It garnered three runs each in the bottom of the first and third innings, and successfully gained the upper hand. It added two more runs in the bottom of the fourth inning, and garnered one and two runs in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings, respectively, to secure a complete victory.

Texas, which has a long way to go, fell into a quagmire for four consecutive losses due to the loss. It finished third in the American League West with 47 wins and 44 losses. It was eight games behind the Seattle Mariners (46 wins and 37 losses). The gap has widened to 3.5 games with the Houston Astros (40 wins and 40 losses), who ranked second with eight wins and two losses in their recent 10 games.

MLBcom posted a video of the moment Ohtani set a new club record on the 28th (Korea Standard Time). It also released a dizzying scene in the dugout.

In an away game against the Chicago White Sox in the 2024 Major League Baseball held at Caranted Rate Field in Chicago, Illinois, Ohtani hit a home run from his first at-bat, contributing to his team’s 4-0 victory. More than anything, he hit an RBI single in 10 consecutive games, setting a new team record.

Since the home game against the Kansas City Royals on the 17th, he has posted RBIs in 10 consecutive games. This will be the first time for the LA Dodgers to have a “single-season consecutive game RBI” since 1920, when the RBI was recognized as an official record. The previous records are Eddie Brown in 1924, Ozzy Gallan in 1944, and Roy Campanella in 1955. 바카라사이트

It broke the Dodgers franchise record. MLBcom, however, said, “Maybe the most impressive achievement of the night was the actions of Javier Herrera, the Dodgers’ batboy.”

In the video uploaded by MLBcom, Herrera blocked a fast foul ball by Kike Hernandez that flew towards the dugout in the third inning with his bare hands. Ohtani was behind it.

Ohtani avoided the fast-flying ball by surprise, but it was a dangerous situation where Ohtani could be seriously injured if Herrera did not stop it. MLB.com said, “Herrera saved Ohtani, who almost got hit by Hernandez’s foul ball.”

It is no longer news that Juan Soto (26, New York Yankees) is ranked first in the Major League FA rankings from 2024 to 2025. MLB Trade Rumors announced the surprising news about Soto by ranking him as a preliminary FA on the 28th (Korea time).

First of all, he mentioned that Soto can receive 600 million dollars. There have been many reports in the U.S. media that Soto is certain to be the winner of the second 500 million dollar contract after Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers, 10 years and 700 million dollars). However, there have been few cases where up to 600 million dollars has been mentioned.

MLB Trade Rumors said, “Soto is three years younger than Ohtani. Soto is unlikely to accept the dipper Ohtani took, but he should be able to easily beat the current net value of the Ohtani contract of $461 million. He has to get over $500 million, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if Boras Corporation was aiming for something close to $600 million early in the winter.”

He did not guarantee that Soto would sign a contract worth 600 million dollars, but it means that he could reach nearly 600 million dollars. This means that Soto is worth a lot. Therefore, when Soto refused to offer a 15-year, 440-million-dollar extension contract from the Washington Tashers, he said, “It is expected to produce bigger and bigger results.”

There is no possibility that Soto will sign a non-FA multi-year contract with the Yankees. The ransom goes up just by watching the clubs hit and hit in the FA market, and there is no reason to accept Yankees’ pre-sale. MLB Trade Rumors said, “The owner Hal Steinbrenner said he was willing to negotiate an extension contract during the season, but it would be completely shocking if Soto did not test the FA market at this point.”

In addition, he shared another new message. He said that the LA Dodgers and San Francisco Giants will be connected to Soto’s recruitment game, in addition to the Yankees and the New York Mets. The prospect that the Dodgers, which already has Shohei Ohtani, could join the recruitment game for Soto is shocking. 토토사이트 추천

In fact, there are constant rumors that the Dodgers can recruit Luis Robert Jr., the Chicago White Sox’s flagship hitter who is about to sell fire in the trade market, which is just a month away. In fact, the lower batting line is a little less heavy than the upper batting line, which is Mookie Betts, Otani, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith. The upper batting line may seem that way because it is too powerful, but the lower batting line is not actually good.

There is an evaluation that the outfield also seems to lack some weight as Betts comes to the infield. When Soto goes to the Dodgers, he builds an all-time lineup by solving two problems at once. It is unclear whether the Dodgers can handle payroll, but it is also a team that makes good use of Dipper. MLB Trade Rumors predict that Soto does not prefer Dipper, but it should be considered that it depends on the Dodgers’ negotiating power. If it is a nuclear war between Yankees, Mets, and Dodgers, the $600 million mark should be considered a given.

MLB also stressed that Soto has strength in snow baseball, right field defense that has improved slightly this season, and is three to four years younger than the average free agent. He will reign as the best hitter in the Major League for seven to 10 years.