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Overview | Seating Guide | Tickets | Food Nearby | Cheering Culture | Getting There | Insider Tips

Overview

The KIA Tigers are a KBO League team based in Gwangju and hold the record for most championships (11). Their home stadium, Gwangju-KIA Champions Field, seats about 20,500 across 2 basement and 5 above-ground floors.

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Seating Guide

Beyond the premium Champion Seats behind the catcher and the central table seating, the 4th-floor infield skyboxes stand out for using actual car seats instead of plastic chairs. Both ends of the skybox level have a Party Floor and Club Lounge where you can order drinks and food. There’s also a sandbox play area for kids in the outfield, making it a good pick for families.

Tickets

  • Champion Seats (premium): 50,000-60,000 KRW
  • Sky Box: 75,000-85,000 KRW / Center table seats: 45,000-55,000 KRW
  • Special cheering seats: 15,000-19,000 KRW
  • K9 (closest general grade): 16,000-20,000 KRW
  • K8 (next to the cheer section, 3rd-base blocks 120-122): 14,000-18,000 KRW
  • K5 (farther general grade): 12,000-16,000 KRW
  • EV seats / outfield seats: 10,000-13,000 KRW

Prices are weekday/weekend rates. Grade names EV, K5, K8, and K9 come from Kia car model names.

This site is Korean-only — here's how to get through it

  1. On the ticket site, click your desired game date.
  2. Choose a seating zone — see the price table above for each zone.
  3. Sign up or log in (many sites accept your passport name in English).
  4. Pick your seat and complete the payment.
  5. Phone verification (SMS) may not accept foreign numbers — if so, most stadiums still sell same-day tickets at the box office, as long as the game isn't sold out.

Tip: in Chrome, right-click the page and choose "Translate to English" to read button labels instantly.

Food Nearby

You will find a variety of restaurants near the stadium. Goga Changpyeong Gukbap (a traditional Korean soup house) and Wangppyeo Sarang (a bone-broth soup and gamjatang specialist) are popular picks.

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Cheering Culture

KIA is best known for its “Bbikki-Bbikki” dance. Whenever an opposing batter strikes out, the cheer squad performs a short celebratory dance and song — done deliberately deadpan and low-energy, which is exactly what makes it so needling to the other team’s fans.

The dance went viral on social media and was even covered by international outlets including the New York Times.

📍 Getting There

Gwangju-KIA Champions Field (광주-기아 챔피언스 필드) · 광주광역시 북구 서림로 10

Tap the button below to see transit and taxi directions (with fare estimates) from your current location to the stadium, via Naver Map.

💡 Insider Tips

🚌 Getting Around

No subway line runs directly to the stadium. Take Line 1 from Gwangju-Songjeong Station to Geumnamno 5-ga Station, then transfer to a bus (Unlim51, Cheomdan95, Ilgok38, etc.). Buses 98 or Ilgok38 also run directly from Songjeong Station.

🎟️ Tickets

General booking opens at 11am, 7 days before the game (official app + Ticketlink). The third-base cheering section (K8 zone) tends to sell out quickly for popular matchups.

🗺️ City Pass Bundling

Easy to combine with the Asia Culture Center (a cultural space commemorating the May 18 Democratic Uprising through art).

💡 Insider Tips

Sections J4–J10, next to the cheering section, have wider row spacing and good sightlines. Drinks or cans/bottles over 1L are not allowed in. Champions Field is Korea’s first open-air stadium, and “Idae Ttaengnamu Jip,” a 10-minute walk from the stadium, is known as a favorite spot among the players.