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Korea Baseball Championship (Hangul: 한국야구선수권대회; hanja: 韓國野球選手權大會) colloquially called Korea Professional Baseball (Hangul: 한국프로야구; Romanization: Hanguk Peuro-Yagu) is the highest level league of baseball in South Korea. Korea Professional Baseball was originally founded with six franchises in 1982 and currently has nine franchises throughout the nation. The franchises are named after the companies or business conglomerates which own them.