How To Get Seoul Baseball Tickets – A Visit To Jamsil Stadium

Baseball is a BIG hitter in South Korea – it is in fact South Korea’s most popular sport! So if you are visiting Seoul in 2026, make sure you catch a baseball game at Jamsil stadium or Gocheok Sky Dome.

Seoul baseball game tickets for foreigners are relatively easy to purchase (and very cheap) plus the main baseball stadiums have good transport links and next-door to Metro stations.

From purchasing Seoul baseball tickets online and at the stadium through to what types of food, drink and live entertainment you can expect, here is our guide to all things baseball in Seoul in 2026.

This article was originally published on cktravels.com in June 2023.

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A brief overview of KBO / South Korean baseball

The 2026 KBO baseball season in South Korea started on 28 March 2026 and usually runs until September every year. Baseball is a huge sport in Korea, since it was introduced by the Americans in the early 1900s.

The main baseball league in South Korea is the KBO League. There are 10 teams in the KBO league (three of which are Seoul baseball teams) and each team plays each other 16 times a year.

The 2025 Korean Series baseball champions were the LG Twins and each KBO team will play 144 games over the season with a short break in July 2026.

The KBO / baseball games in South Korea can sometimes be watched up to 6 times a week – it is only Monday when there are no baseball games played.

This means that if you are visiting Seoul this year from late March 2026 to September during the baseball / KBO season, there will likely be several Seoul baseball games a week you can catch live at the Jamsil stadium or Gocheok Sky Dome.

Alternatively, all KBO baseball games are televised – most Seoul pubs and bars also show the live or recorded baseball games.

When are the 2026 South Korean Baseball / KBO season dates?

The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) 2026 regular season schedule starts on Saturday 28 March 2026 running until late September / early October 2026.

Please note the KBO play-offs usually kick in at the end of September, when South Korea baseball tickets become a lot harder to buy as tickets sell out quickly.

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Seoul’s Baseball Teams and Stadiums

There are 3 Seoul baseball teams – there are two baseball teams that call Jamsil Stadium home – the Doosan Bears and the LG Twins. Alternatively, the other Seoul baseball stadium – the Gocheok Sky Dome is home to the Kiwoom Heroes (buy your foreigner exclusive Kiwoom Heroes ticket packages here).

The Seoul LG Twins were the 2023 and 2025 KBO Season winners (so they are the current reigning champions) – the Doosan Bears last won the KBO championship in 2019 whilst Kiwoom Heroes have yet to win since they formed in 2008.

Jamsil Stadium in Seoul is South Korea’s largest baseball stadium with a capacity of 25,000.

The other Seoul baseball stadium is The Gocheok Sky Dome (16,000 capacity) and home to Seoul’s third KBO baseball team, Kiwoom Heroes.

The majority of professional baseball players in the KBO are Korean but each team is allowed up to three foreign players per season.

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Buying Seoul baseball tickets / KBO tickets online

At the time of writing in May 2026, we have attended three baseball games at Jamsil Baseball Stadium in Seoul where we queued up for tickets at the box office. Most recently in May 2026, we went to a game a baseball game at Gocheok Sky Dome where we got tickets in advance via KBT tours as part of a foreigner exclusive package >

You may ask – ‘How do I get baseball tickets in Seoul if I’m visiting from overseas?’ It is actually surprisingly easy (but NOT during the later part of the season or during playoffs in late September / October).

You could attempt to buy Seoul baseball tickets online (especially if you want to get your baseball tickets well before) but we found that most online sites selling KBO / Seoul baseball tickets required a Korean phone number or Korean debit card to allow a purchase. However, there is a reasonably priced package for foreigners to buy tickets to Seoul The Gocheok Sky Dome (see details shortly).

The main way to buy Doosan Bears baseball tickets online is through their official website or the Interpark ticket website.

The main way to buy LG Twin Seoul baseball tickets online is through their official site or the Ticketlink website.

Tickets usually go on sale around 7 days before the game.

Many of these online baseball ticket sellers and sites require you to create an account which is easier said than done when you do not have a Korean address.

As such, we always buy our Seoul baseball tickets at Jamsil Stadium on the day of the game. Please note our visits were at the start of the baseball season when tickets are much more easily available.

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Buying Seoul Baseball tickets at Jamsil Stadium

We have been to Jamsil baseball stadium three times (twice on week nights and once on a Sunday), and bought baseball tickets from the box office around 90 minutes to 2 hours before the games started.

The Jamsil stadium box office opens 90 minutes before the game so that anyone (including visitors from overseas) can buy baseball tickets. On a weekend the box office opens 2 hours before the game starts.

For games featuring popular teams we recommend arriving early! In May 2025 we tried to get tickets for Seoul LG Twins vs Hanwha Eagles on a Tuesday evening and arrived half an hour before the box office opened. The queue was already huge and the game sold out just 2 minutes before we reached the front of the queue for the ticket booth!

There are several seating areas and zones to choose from at Jamsil Stadium, the cheapest of which are the navy and green coloured zones.

Seating plans and baseball ticket prices can be seen on display at the Jamsil baseball box office (posters in the windows and above the counters).

Buying Seoul Baseball tickets at Seoul Gecheok Sky Dome Stadium

If a game at Seoul Jamsil Stadium isn’t convenient, for the 2026 KBO baseball season, foreigners can now prebook selected Kiwoom Heroes tickets at reasonable prices at Seoul Geocheok Sky Dome which include seats in the famous ‘Cheer Zone’ and stadium food.

We went to our first ever Seoul Gocheok Sky Dome baseball game in May this year (2026) and we think it might be the BEST night we’ve ever had at a Korean baseball game.

It was such a fun evening as we had pre-booked great seats with the home Kiwoom Heroes fans, right next to the entertainment zone / cheerleaders. The Heroes won 4-2 against Doosan Bears so the fans were so loud and cheering all night.

This is a great Korean baseball experience for foreigners as you don’t need to queue for tickets or food, as both are included as part of the KBT package.

Amazingly, the baseball package isn’t that expensive and KBT works officially in partnership with the KTO (Korean Government) to encourage travellers to easily experience Korean baseball for themselves at affordable prices.

These baseball tickets with food start currently include selected games until 5 September 2026 and cost from 65,000 Won (around $43 USD / £32 / $61 AUD) – book here >

Sitting amongst the home Kiwoom Heroes fans was a blast and they danced and sang all night long, with the MC, mascots and cheerleaders buoying the crowd. We joined in and had a few Terra beers too (drinks are available to buy from the shops inside the stadium and not very expensive)

Baseball tickets are very difficult for foreigners to buy in advance so this is a great solution and much much cheaper than some other heavily marked up packages we’ve seen.

Buy your Seoul Gecheok Sky Dome Stadium tickets for foreigners (selected dates) here

Tickets will also likely be available at the box office on the day but may sell out quickly.

How much do baseball tickets cost in Seoul? Jamsil Baseball ticket costs

Foreigners can buy 2026 Seoul baseball tickets at Jamsil stadium for as little as 14,000 Won (around £7.50 / $10 USD) for the blue zone and 9,000 Won (around £4.80 / $6.50 USD) for the outfield green zone .

Note that these are the weekday baseball ticket prices at Seoul’s Jamsil stadium – the same tickets cost slightly more during weekend baseball games or on public holiday games.

We always try and get tickets that are close to the orange coloured “exciting zones”. The exciting zone have the entertainment stages which are so much fun. There is an “exciting zone” for both the home team and the away team.

We couldn’t believe how cheap Seoul baseball tickets were. Even the most expensive centre VIP baseball tickets in Seoul are around the 80,000 Won mark in 2025. All baseball ticket types and seating areas can be purchased at the box office.

Baseball tickets at Jamsil stadium can be purchased using either card or debit card / contactless payment. We used a UK debit card (Starling) which worked fine.

Other ways of buying KBO / Seoul baseball tickets online

If you cannot buy Seoul baseball tickets online via ticket sellers like Interpark and Ticketlink, you can try and book through a third party website.

Although you will pay a bit more, both Klook and Viator offer a Seoul Korean Baseball / Basketball Game Experience where you go to a baseball game with a local host and have some Korean food at a restaurant.

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How to read your Seoul baseball tickets

Once you’ve purchased your KBO tickets at the box office, you’ll see three numbers and some Korean. In order, these read as block number, level / row number and seat number – or BLS (and definitely not to be confused with K-Pop favourites BTS!)

Food and drink at a South Korean baseball game

After you have purchased the baseball tickets, check out the outer area of Jamsil Stadium to look at the many food and drink options.

There were multiple places outside the baseball stadium (including Korean fried chicken chains like BBQ Olive Chicken, Mom’s Touch Chicken and BHC Chicken, plus KFC).

We had a Frank’s Burger and it was terrible (we don’t recommend it!).

Other food and drink restaurants outside Jamsil Stadium in Seoul included a Korean Milk cafe, Mr Pizza and Domino’s Pizza.  We spotted lots of pop up street food stalls right next to the Jamsil Underground entrance / exit immediately in front of the stadium.

There were a couple of GS25 Convenience stores outside the stadium with small seating areas. as we got to the baseball game very early, we bought a couple of beers at GS25 and drank them outside.

There were also a couple of bars selling beer outside the stadium – the main beers available were Cass and Terra. Not a great choice for Seoul craft beer brewery fans.

Food and drink purchased outside is allowed to be taken into Jamsil Stadium.

Food at Seoul baseball games is cheap, comparably e.g. at Mom’s Touch, you could get two chicken burgers and two large Cokes for 13,000 won (£8 / $10 USD).

The most popular food and drink combo in the baseball stadium itself seemed to be a pint of draft beer/soft drink with a round helmet shaped serving dish attached on top, full of fried chicken/fried prawns and chips with lots of sauce. Now that is one cracking combo we can get down with!

Alcohol and Beer at South Korean Baseball Games

Beer and alcohol are allowed at KBO / baseball games – inside Jamsil station, you can either buy cans of beer from G25 convenience stores (around 2,500 Won for a can of beer like Cass) or you can buy draft beer from Terra beer stands.

Like Japanese baseball games, there are also a few beer servers who roam the stands with a big canister / vat of beer on their backs so you can buy draft beers, but they are few and far between.

All in all, beer is comparatively cheap at South Korean baseball games – although note they stop serving alcohol around the 6th innings (at Jamsil).

Souvenirs and Merchandise

You can buy Korean baseball / KBO merchandise at the game – most of the merchandise will likely be branded whatever home team is playing at Jamsil stadium that night (in our case, Doosan Bears). We also saw one stall selling merchandise for the away baseball team.

The most popular baseball merchandise that we could see were the inflatable Pow Pow baseball branded with the Doosan Bears logo – these made a great sound when people banged them together in the stadium, any time the Bears did anything brill!

One of the most popular gift stores always has a huge queue, so we recommend heading straight there after purchasing your ticket to buy your merchandise. In May 2025 we spotted some very cute Choonsik from Kakao Friends gifts (we bought the plushie).

South Korean baseball game atmosphere / cheering culture

We’d been to baseball games before in Asia where the fans are quite reserved (especially in Japan) but South Korean baseball is quite different.

The home baseball crowd at Seoul were very loud and proud (possibly fuelled by all that cheap beer and fried chicken), especially in the Entertainment Zone. This is where cheerleaders, an MC, dance stage and drummers have all set up to keep the crowd amused all night – talk about whipping up the crowd!

So many songs were sung and the cheerleaders / dance troupe really got the crowd into a good mood. In fact, South Korea is well known for its ‘baseball cheering culture’.

Better yet, each KBO team has its own signature song (fight song) plus all of the big hitters have their own individual fight songs which the crowd belt out when they are batting.

One big difference we noticed between South Korean baseball and Japanese baseball is that the music, dancing and cheering continues even mid game in South Korea – the players don’t seem to be easily distracted so it must all be part of the cheering culture – we loved it!

Is it worth going to a KBO game if you aren’t a baseball fan?

A big, fat YES! South Korea and Seoul baseball tickets are really cheap and the atmosphere inside is electric – we were so distracted by all the singing and dancing in the ‘entertainment zones’ that we kinda forgot there was also a baseball game being played out on the field!

Food and drink prices inside and outside Jamsil stadium are very reasonable especially if you just buy your drinks from the G25 convenience stores inside – all that cheap beer and loud music made for a very enjoyable baseball game!

Nearby hotels

Budget ($)
Hotel Pharos
Located just 400 metres from the subway station, hotel facilities include a restaurant and laundry. Upgraded rooms have sitting areas, minibars, living rooms and private indoor pools. 

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Mid-range ($$)
Seoul Olympic Parktel
High-rise hotel located on the edge of the Olympic Park. Hotel facilities include 4 dining options and a fitness room. 

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Luxury ($$$)
Lotte Hotel World
Situated beside Lotte Lotte World Adventure park, this 5-star Lotte Hotel sits atop Jamsil Subway Station. Some rooms are themed after amusement park characters, and the more expensive suites have whirlpool tubs and separate living areas.

Facilities include a buffet restaurant, cafe, bar, hot tubs, sauna, gym, indoor pool, golf range and jogging tracks. Check out prices and availability on booking.com / agoda.com / expedia.com

How to get to Jamsil Stadium

If you are going to a baseball game in Seoul at Jamsil Stadium, getting to the baseball game is easy – your best form of public transport to Jamsil Stadium is to use the Seoul subway / underground line 2 (the Green line).

Jamsil Stadium has its own exit (exit 5) entitled ‘Sports Complex Station’. Trains to and from Jamsil baseball stadium / Sports Complex Station run approximately every four to five minutes – expect long queues and large crowds at the end of every baseball game.

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