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LG Twins (Korean: LG 트윈스) is a South Korean professional baseball team based in Seoul, South Korea. They are a member of the KBO League. The Twins play their home games at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, which they share with their rival, the Doosan Bears; the stadium is known as "Two families under one roof."

The team was originally established as the MBC Chungyong (translation MBC "Blue Dragons"), owned by the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation. On January 18, 1990, LG bought the MBC Chungyong and was officially re-established as the LG Twins on March 15, 1990. That year, LG Twins won their first Korean Series with head coach,  Baek In-chun. And they won their second championship in 1994. However, after their last Korean Series appearance in 2002 the team has gone through the dark ages, not making the postseason for 11 years until 2013. In 2013, LG Twins earned the second seed in the regular season and qualified for the playoff series in 16 years. Since the 2013 season, LG has made five postseason appearances (2013, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2020) but has failed to return to the Korean Series. They hold the second-longest streak for a championship drought, 26 years which is still continuing.

MBC Chungyong (1982~1989)
LG Twins was originally established as the MBC Chyungyong on January 26th, 1982. MBC Chungyong recorded the first win of the KBO league and reached the Korean Series in 1983 finishing second place in the playoffs. In 1989 based on the agreement between labor and management MBC decided to sell the Chungyong baseball team. LG Group bought the ownership of the MBC Chyungyong on January 18, 1990. The team officially changed its name to LG Twins on March 15th, 1990.

LG Twins, 1990
Lg Twins first head coach was Baek In-chun who was the first and last head coach of the MBC Chungyong. On their first-year rookie catcher Kim Dong-soo and veteran 노찬엽, 김상훈 led the team among the hitters. And 김용수, 정상흠 played a remarkable role as pitchers. Based on the effective performance of the team LG Twins finished first place in the regular season and advanced to the Korean Series. In the 1990 Korean Series, LG Twins faced the Samsung Lions. They recorded a sweep win and became champions in the first year of foundation.

Fan events
The LG Twins have a very unique cheering culture, and their cheering tools change a lot every few years. In addition, the LG Twins were the world's first team to use cheering stick balloons in the 1994 Korean Series. In the past 90s, yellow pickled radish stick balloons and towels such as Kia-tigers were popular, but most of them disappeared after slump. LG Twins was the first team to cheer for the cheering claps of Korea. Unlike most clubs putting the strongest in front, LG's cheering chant is invincible LG, and LG is the only team that attaches other words than LG. Since then, red bar balloons and yellow paper (limited to home games) were mainly cheered until 2013, but now, unlike other teams, which mainly support bar balloons starting with 2014 and Choi Dong-hoon's support, bare hands, yellow towels, sing-alongs, and glossy baseball jacket cheers are popular.