Dodgers pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu connects Korean Americans to Korea through baseball.
Ryu is continuing down the path that Chan-Ho Park blazed in 1994 as the first Korean to play in a Major League Baseball game, also for Los Angeles. Partly because of interest in Ryu, the Dodgers partnered with Radio Korea in 2014 to become the first major league team to offer Korean-language broadcasts for every game.
"Ryu allows Koreans and Korean Americans to have a sense of unity, pride and connection to one another, even though there might be a huge generation and culture gap between the two," Kim, 33, said. "Participants mentioned the fact that Ryu being 'fully' Korean, which means he was born in Korea and is 100 percent Korean descent, was appreciated by the Korean American community and helped Korean American fans establish a stronger connection," according to the study."Korean pride is very strong," another participant said."Probably it's stronger than other ethnic backgrounds.
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