Doosan Bears

Korean baseball team in Seoul, South Korea

The Doosan Bears are a South Korean professional baseball team based in Seoul. Founded in 1982, they are a member of the KBO League. The Bears have won six Korean Series titles (1982, 1995, 2001, 2015, 2016, and 2019) and play their home games at Seoul's Jamsil Baseball Stadium. with the Oriental Brewery as their owners. OB Bears were the first team to be founded in the KBO League. In , the team moved to their current home in Seoul. The Bears won the inaugural Korean Series in 1982 by defeating the Samsung Lions to become the first KBO League champion. Between 2015 and 2021, the Bears appeared in seven consecutive Korean Series championships, winning three of the series in 2015, 2016 and 2019.

The main colours of the team are navy and white, with red as the secondary colour. From 1999 to 2009, yellow was used instead as the secondary colour, before the team returned in 2010 to the iconic dark navy and red combination of the original OB Bears.

The Doosan Bears mascot is a bear named Cheol Woong (철웅). Its biggest feature is that it embodies the bear, the symbolic animal of Doosan Bears, as a dynamic robot character. It emphasized strength and a future oriented image.

Season City Stadium League Finish Regular season Postseason Awards Rank Games Wins Losses Draws Win% BA HR ERAOB Bears1982 Daejeon Daejeon HanbatBaseball StadiumKBO 1 1/6 40 29 11 0 .725 .283 57 3.20 Won Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (4–1–1) Park Chul soon (MVP (Most Valuable Player))2/6 40 27 13 0 .6751983 KBO 5 6/6 50 22 28 0 .440 .259 50 3.54 Park Jong hoon (ROTY (Rookie of the Year)) 5/6 50 22 27 1 .4491984 KBO 3 2/6 50 30 20 0 .600 .256 53 2.53 Yun Seog hwan (ROTY) 2/6 50 28 21 1 .5711985 Seoul DongdaemunBaseball StadiumKBO 4 2/6 55 29 25 1 .537 .260 67 3.16 5/6 55 22 32 1 .4091986 JamsilBaseball StadiumKBO 3 5/7 54 23 29 2 .442 .249 38 2.61 Lost playoff vs. Samsung Lions (2–3) 1/7 54 33 19 2 .6351987 KBO 3 2/7 54 30 22 2 .574 .261 30 3.26 Lost playoff vs. Haitai Tigers (2–3) 5/7 54 24 30 0 .4441988 KBO 5 3/7 54 31 23 0 .574 .258 44 3.73 5/7 54 23 29 2 .4441989 KBO 5 5/7 120 54 63 3 .463 .247 42 3.70 1990 KBO 7 7/7 120 35 80 5 .313 .231 62 4.72 1991 KBO 8 8/8 126 51 73 2 .413 .250 59 4.32 1992 KBO 5 5/8 126 56 66 4 .460 .259 110 4.22 1993 KBO 4 3/8 126 66 55 5 .544 .258 59 2.89 Lost semi playoff vs. LG Twins (1–2) 1994 KBO 7 7/8 126 53 72 1 .425 .246 75 3.46 1995 KBO 1 1/8 126 74 47 5 .607 .266 106 3.42 Won Korean Series vs. Lotte Giants (4–3) Kim Sang ho (MVP)1996 KBO 8 8/8 126 47 73 6 .397 .242 82 3.67 1997 KBO 5 5/8 126 57 64 5 .472 .254 84 3.84 1998 KBO 4 4/8 126 61 62 3 .496 .256 102 3.60 Lost semi playoff vs. LG Twins (0–2) Tyrone Woods (MVP)Doosan Bears1999 Seoul JamsilBaseball Stadium Dream League 4 1/4 132 76 51 5 .598 .284 141 4.58 Lost playoff vs. Hanwha Eagles (0–4) Hong Sung heon (ROTY)2000 Dream League 2 2/4 133 76 57 0 .571 .289 150 4.22 Won playoff vs. LG Twins (4–2) Lost Korean Series vs. Hyundai Unicorns (3–4) 2001 KBO 1 3/8 133 65 63 5 .508 .276 130 4.96 Won semi playoff vs. Hanwha Eagles (2–0) Won playoff vs. Hyundai Unicorns (3–1) Won Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (4–2) 2002 KBO 5 5/8 133 66 65 2 .504 .261 130 3.93 2003 KBO 7 7/8 133 57 74 2 .435 .276 90 4.25 2004 KBO 3 3/8 133 70 62 1 .530 .268 89 3.88 Won semi playoff vs. Kia Tigers (2–0) Lost playoff vs. Samsung Lions (1–3) 2005 KBO 2 2/8 126 72 51 3 .585 .270 63 3.42 Won playoff vs. Hanwha Eagles (3–0) Lost Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (0–4) 2006 KBO 5 5/8 126 63 60 3 .512 .258 55 3.36 2007 KBO 2 2/8 126 70 54 2 .565 .263 78 3.45 Won playoff vs. Hanwha Eagles (3–0) Lost Korean Series vs. SK Wyverns (2–4) Danny Rios (MVP) Im Tae hoon (ROTY)2008 KBO 2 2/8 126 70 56 0 .556 .276 68 3.89 Won playoff vs. Samsung Lions (4–2) Lost Korean Series vs. SK Wyverns (1–4) 2009 KBO 3 3/8 133 71 60 2 .534 .280 120 4.60 Won semi playoff vs. Lotte Giants (3–1) Lost playoff vs. SK Wyverns (2–3) Lee Yong chan (ROTY)2010 KBO 3 3/8 133 73 57 3 .562 .281 149 4.62 Won semi playoff vs. Lotte Giants (3–2) Lost playoff vs. Samsung Lions (2–3) Yang Eui ji (ROTY)2011 KBO 5 5/8 133 61 70 2 .466 .271 92 4.26 2012 KBO 3 3/8 133 68 62 3 .523 .260 59 3.58 Lost semi playoff vs. Lotte Giants (1–3) 2013 KBO 2 4/9 128 71 54 3 .568 .289 95 4.57 Won semi playoff vs. Nexen Heroes (3–2) Won playoff vs. LG Twins (3–1) Lost Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (3–4) 2014 KBO 6 6/9 128 59 68 1 .465 .293 108 5.43 2015 KBO 1 3/10 144 79 65 0 .549 .290 140 5.02 Won semi playoff vs. Nexen Heroes (3–1) Won playoff vs. NC Dinos (3–2) Won Korean Series vs. Samsung Lions (4–1) 2016 KBO 1 1/10 144 93 50 1 .650 .298 183 4.45 Won Korean Series vs. NC Dinos (4–0) Dustin Nippert (MVP)2017 KBO 2 2/10 144 84 57 3 .596 .294 178 4.38 Won playoff vs. NC Dinos (3–1) Lost Korean Series vs. Kia Tigers (1–4) 2018 KBO 2 1/10 144 93 51 0 .646 .309 191 4.98 Lost Korean Series vs. SK Wyverns (2–4) Kim Jae hwan (MVP)2019 KBO 1 1/10 144 88 55 1 .615 .278 84 3.51 Won Korean Series vs. Kiwoom Heroes (4–0) Josh Lindblom (MVP)2020 KBO 2 3/10 144 79 61 4 .564 .293 125 4.31 Won semi playoff vs. LG Twins (2–0) Won playoff vs. KT Wiz (3–1) Lost Korean Series vs. NC Dinos (2–4) 2021 KBO 2 4/10 144 71 65 8 .522 .268 110 4.26 Won wild card vs. Kiwoom Heroes (1–1)Won semi playoff vs. LG Twins (2–1) Won playoff vs. Samsung Lions (2–0) Lost Korean Series vs. KT Wiz (0–4) Ariel Miranda (MVP)2022 KBO 9 9/10 144 60 82 2 .423 .255 101 4.45 2023 KBO 5 5/10 144 74 68 2 .521 .255 100 3.92 Lost wild card vs. NC Dinos (0–1)

The Bears have retired numbers 21 and 54. The number 21 is retired in honour of pitcher Park Chul soon, who won the KBO League Most Valuable Player Award, the Pitching Triple Crown, and the Korean Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1982. The number 54 is in memory of catcher Kim Young shin, who committed suicide while still a young player.