On Wednesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, two MLB teams starting their new seasons in South Korea, announced their preseason schedule in Seoul.

The official presenting partner for the MLB World Tour Seoul Series, a South Korean streaming service called Coupang Play, revealed that the Dodgers would face the Kiwoom Heroes of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) at noon on March 17 to begin the preseason schedule here.

The following day, the Padres will play host to the South Korean national team at 7 p.m.

The LG Twins, who have won the Korean Series in the past two seasons, will face off against the Padres at noon on March 18. After that, at 7 o’clock that same day, the Dodgers will play the Korean national team.

Game times are as follows: Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome.

On March 20 and 21, the Dodgers and Padres will play two regular season games at the dome. Game time is 7:05 p.m. South Korea will host its first Major League Baseball regular season games.

Coupang Wow VIP users will be the only ones able to purchаse tickets for the two regular season games and four preseason games through the official Coupang Play website (https://www.coupangplay.com/promotion/mlb-seoul-series).

The six games’ ticket sales will begin this week and continue every Friday for the next six weeks.

For example, this coming Friday at 8 p.m., you can get tickets on Coupang Play for the game on March 20. And starting at 8 p.m. on March 1st, you can purchаse them online for the game on March 21st. The four preseason games will have ticket windows that open on four separate Fridays: February 2, 9, 16, and 23.

A lot of Korean fans root for the Dodgers and the Padres. Park Chan-ho, a former pitcher for the Dodgers, made history 30 years ago as the first South Korean to play in a Major League Baseball game. Ryu Hyun-jin, a left-handed pitcher from South Korea, was a major league leader in ERA and runner-up in voting for the National League Cy Young Award in 2019, capping up a seven-year stint with the Los Angeles team.

Kim Ha-seong, the first Asian infielder to earn a Gold Glove in 2023, and Go Woo-suk, the former LG Twins closer who just inked a two-year deal with San Diego, are both South Korean athletes that the Padres are currently carrying.

Roh Si-hwan of the Hanwha Eagles, who finished second in the 2023 KBO MVP voting, and Kim Hye-seong of the Heroes, a defensive wҺiz at second base who will be posted to MLB clubs after the 2024 season, are two of the most promising young players in the Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) and are expected to be part of the South Korean national team.

The national team manager and roster will be finalized by the KBO early next month.