Recent book

My Dream Is Not Over Yet

Min Hoon-ki; Brain Store Publishing: 344 pp., 15,000 won

Korean professional baseball was reshaped in 1998 after foreign players were allowed to play. These players, many of them the products of Major League Baseball farm systems, were credited with improving the quality of the competition in the Korea Baseball Organization league, which enjoyed an attendance boom in recent years.

In this book, veteran baseball journalist Min Hoon-ki provides an entertaining tale of 19 foreign players who have played or are playing in Korea. The players’ daily experiences are portrayed in details, and their efforts to overcome the cultural and language barriers, adjust to different strategies and deal with the pressure to produce give the book its drama.

Min, who has covered former Korean major leaguer Park Chan-ho during his days with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has a fluent command of English, which clearly benefited him in writing this book.

_Baek Byung-yeul