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Team rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Value 125.5 114.3 85.2 74.3 70.7 58.3 44.4 43.7 43.6 t i D B i t Korea’s ‘most valuable ’ baseball team The frst postseason in 11 years SamSung lionS 125.5 billion won ($118 million) The lg Twins are worth an estimated 125.5 billion won, making them the most valuable enterprise of the nine korean professional baseball teams. The Twins advanced to the postseason for the frst time in 11 years. until last year, their 10-year dry spell deepened its reputation as one of the worst-performing franchises in korean sports. The korean series champions for the third straight year, samsung ranked no. 6 due mainly to poor ticket sales, which were third-worst in the league. no. 1 in TickeT SaleS the twins were no. 1 in ticket sales with 13 billion won dooSan BearS doosan, which shares a stadium with the Twins, ranks second in value at 114.3 billion won. F orbes Korea, the licensed Korean-language edition of Forbes magazine in the U.S., has named the Seoul-based baseball team owned and run by LG Group as this year’s “most valuable Korean baseball team.” In calculating team value, Forbes Korea examined revenue from ticket sales, population of cities each team is based in, player salaries and number of games broadcast on television and radio. 2013 esTiMaTed VaLue (BILLIon Won) 1 lg TWins 2 doosan bears 3 sk Wyverns 4 loTTe gianTs 5 nexen heroes 6 samsung lions 7 kia Tigers 8 hanhWa eagles 9 nc dinos source: kbo, statisticskorea 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Korean basebaLL TeaM VaLue ranKings