LITTLE FAN WHO WALKED 156km BECAUSE HE LOVED BASEBALL BECAME ROBOT UMPIRE MANAGER
Mr. Daehyun Lee, the on-site manager of the automatic pitch judgment system, said, "Many people are working hard to create fair professional baseball."
August 1, 2015.
Lee Dae-hyun, a third-year student at Baekhyun Middle School in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, walked a total of 156 km from his home in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province to Daejeon Hanwha Life Eagles Park.
At the time, Lee Dae-hyun, a baseball fan who was an avid supporter of the professional baseball team Hanwha Eagles, said, "I just walked to the baseball stadium to cheer on Hanwha and to encourage my own spirit of challenge." 실시간 바카라사이트
The group traveled for 5 nights and 6 days, eating at places like jjimjilbangs, and arrived in Daejeon.
This story became a hot topic when the Hanwha Eagles told the reporters who were at the professional baseball game at the time.
Nine years later, Lee Dae-hyun, now an adult, is working as a manager (site manager) in the professional baseball automatic pitch judgment system (ABS) business division.
Lee, who majored in business administration in college, applied for a job opening at Sports2i, the operator of ABS, after being discharged from the military early this year and was accepted. In a recent interview with Yonhap News, Lee Dae-hyun said, “I have loved professional baseball since I was young,” and “The experience of walking tirelessly to the baseball field in middle school led to my dream of working in the baseball industry, and I recently achieved that dream.”
He added, “ABS is a historic system first introduced in the KBO League (among the first-tier professional baseball leagues in Korea, the US, and Japan),” and “I am honored to be able to contribute to the operation of this advanced system.”
Mr. Lee, who is on leave of absence, goes to the baseball stadium every morning to check the ABS and dugout tablet devices.
He is very busy during the game.
He checks the transmission process of the system every time the pitcher throws the ball to prevent errors.
Lee's role is also to prevent tracking errors caused by insects such as mayflies and foreign substances.
After the game, he writes a report and provides suggestions for improvement.
Lee Dae-hyun said, "Many people are working behind the scenes to improve the fairness and transparency of the KBO League in professional baseball fields," and "I will do my best to ensure that the sweat of the players and the passionate cheers of the fans do not fade."