# Korean Baseball Question **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 6, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/korean-baseball-question/516616 "2009-11-06T18:21:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/korean-baseball-question/516616/1 "2009-11-06T18:21:33Z")
Specifically, what the hell is going on [here](http://thedugoutdoctors.com/2009/11/korean-hbp-reaction-seeing-is-believing/)? The link is to a video of a pitcher hitting a batter and a rather strange result. ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/korean-baseball-question/516616/2 "2009-11-06T18:29:34Z")
probably a comedic planned event. The getting up on one foot and hopping and “fighting” is some sort of kid’s game i believe. They’re just trying to make some fun on bench clearing brawls. All I know for sure is in the korean baseball leagues, you get fined for NOT fighting in HBP brawls. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/korean-baseball-question/516616/3 "2009-11-06T18:33:18Z")
I’m voting for parody. I can’t imagine real players would do something like that…maybe it was a celebrity game or something. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/korean-baseball-question/516616/4 "2009-11-06T18:40:56Z")
Monty Python, eat your heart out! I did some google searching to see if grabbing your foot is any kind of obscene gesture in Korea, but I didn’t turn up anything, and I think it’s more likely they were making fun of fighting. [Here’s a link on YouTube.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7D8aDp3RUs&feature=sortall) This happened in 2007, and I saw some message board comments indicating they were spoofing a then-recent incident where a U.S. batter tried to bluff his way on base by pretending he’d been hit by a pitch. But here is a better explanation: > [@](#): > > This is just a joke… it’s called “Daksaum” which literally means “chicken fight”… It’s just a game usually played by kids in Korea.. They were just doing it to entertain the audience. > [@](#): > > This is not real situation. This is a Premeditated Fan Service Event. Pitcher is An Jae-Wook(Actor) and Batter is Lee Hwi-Jae(Comedian). Rest of them are all entertainer. They are entertainer baseball Team(amateur) just paly for fun. This is a Parody of CF(Commercial Film). ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/korean-baseball-question/516616/5 "2009-11-06T18:45:11Z")
There’s no way to verify a YouTube comment, but someone else adds this: > [@](#): > > It’s a charity baseball game: in South Korea, and the players are comedians, show hosts, actors tv stars etc. They are doing what is called a ‘chicken fight’ where you grab one leg with one of your hand, and the other leg for balancing your body. Players must not let go of their leg or they get disqualified (or out). If an opponent rams into you and knock you off you’re disqualified as well. Whichever team knocks out the other team wins. The way the players are smiling at the end of the clip backs up the idea that it’s for fun, at least.