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Stove League (스토브리그, SBS 2019–2020) is a baseball drama with almost no baseball on the field. Its story belongs to the front office: Baek Seung-soo, a newly appointed general manager, arrives at the Dreams, a club that has finished last for years, and tries to rebuild it with his colleagues before the new season. The drama drew a peak rating of 19.4 percent during its run, according to the February 2020 press report cited below — a rare sports-office hit, and one whose realism the real club helped to build.
That realism is why this guide has one stop. The Dreams are fictional, and so is their office. What is real is the ballpark: the Incheon stadium where the fictional club played its home games, lent to the production by the real club that played there. Stand in the stands on a game day and you are standing where the drama’s home ground was.
The stadium
Incheon SSG Landers Field sits in the Munhak Sports Complex in Michuhol-gu, at 618 Maesohol-ro. When Stove League aired, it was called Incheon SK Happy Dream Park and was home to SK Wyverns; today it is home to SSG Landers, and the name changed with the club. Incheon Metropolitan City’s own drama-locations page says the home stadium of the Dreams in the story is this field, which SK Wyverns opened as a filming location for the drama. Daily Sports Hankook, reporting as the drama ended in February 2020, says the same thing from the club’s side: the drama was filmed at SK Wyverns’ home stadium, and the club advised the production on in-drama situations as well as lending the ground. VisitKorea’s 2025 baseball diary names the stadium as the backdrop for Hot Stove League, the drama’s English title. Three independent sources — the city, the press, and the national tourism body — name the same place, so the stop is confirmed.
What you see on a visit is a working KBO ballpark, not a museum of the drama. There is no Dreams signage to find, because the Dreams never existed; the pleasure of the stop is the other way around. The field, the stands and the big board are the home ground you watched, and a game day gives you the crowd, the songs and the food that the drama’s front office was fighting to fill. The stadium’s own atmosphere is part of the visit: Korean baseball crowds sing through the game, and Incheon’s is among the loudest.
How we checked
The stadium is confirmed because two independent official sources and one press source name it at exact-spot level: Incheon Metropolitan City’s drama-locations page, VisitKorea’s baseball diary, and Daily Sports Hankook’s February 2020 club report. The other places Incheon City lists for this drama were deliberately left out, and the reasons are on the stop card’s left-out list: a private training facility, a school, a stadium without a verified address or scene, an airport mention that conflicts with a press account of an overseas shoot, and studio office sets. Nothing was added from fan wikis, and no scene, episode number or address was guessed. Our method explains how each label is earned.
A game day at the ballpark
Incheon’s guide describes a natural-grass field with 23,000 seats close to Seoul, and a scoreboard it calls the largest among Korean baseball stadiums, used for messages and song requests sent by QR code during breaks in play. When a home run is hit, lights flash and a boat horn sounds for the port city; at the end of the eighth inning, the Incheon-inspired song “Yeonan Pier” plays and stops so the crowd can sing together, with the words shown on the board.
Seating is part of the choice. The same guide lists a barbecue zone in the outfield for groups, a grass green zone for relaxed watching on a mat, and quieter and livelier zones for families, couples, and cheering sections, plus a club shop and photo booths. None of this is a drama set: it is the working ballpark, at its fullest, that the drama borrowed.
Getting there
Incheon is a day trip from Seoul on the metropolitan subway: ride the Incheon subway to Munhak Sports Complex Station, the station for the complex, and plan the last mile with the Kakao Map and Naver Map links on the stop card. Fares and schedules change, so check today’s trains on the official pages before you travel. For more Incheon filming places, see Goblin’s Incheon day trip and My Mister in Seoul and Incheon. This guide states no game times, ticket prices or opening hours: the ballpark’s calendar follows the fixture list, and only the SSG Landers official page is current.
Sources
- Incheon Metropolitan City: That scene in the drama is in Incheon! (Stove League)
- Daily Sports Hankook: SK Wyverns, Stove League collaboration goods (Feb 13, 2020)
- VisitKorea: Autumn K-Baseball — As Fiery as the Red Leaves of Fall (Oct 11, 2025)
- Incheon itour: It’s More Fun When You Know! A Beginner’s Guide to SSG Landers Field
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