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KBO club’s missing YouTube award appears on second-hand trading platform for $80

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Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark, home of the Hanwha Eagles. Courtesy of Daejeon city

Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark, home of the Hanwha Eagles. Courtesy of Daejeon city

Nearly a year after it went missing, the Silver Creator Award presented to the official YouTube channel of Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) club Hanwha Eagles appeared on the online secondhand marketplace platform Karrot on Thursday, prompting the team to file a theft report with police.

The Silver Creator Award is presented by YouTube to channels that surpass 100,000 subscribers. Hanwha Eagles’ official YouTube channel, Eagles TV, received the award after reaching the milestone in May 2022. The channel later released a video showing players unboxing the award on the stadium grounds.

The club displayed the award at Eagles Park until 2024. It reportedly discovered that the award was missing in March last year, after relocating its office to the newly built Daejeon Hanwha Life Ballpark, but did not disclose the loss publicly at the time.

The initial asking price for the Silver Creator Award was 120,000 won ($80). The post has since been deleted.

This article from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Times, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.