The actor surprised fans by attending a Kiwoom Heroes game with his family, reportedly at the invitation of\u00a0Heroes’ batter Matt Davidson.<\/p>\n
\n Hollywood actor Matt Damon poses during a KBO league game between the Kiwoom Heroes and the SSG Landers at the Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro District, western Seoul, on Aug. 1.
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Hollywood actor Matt Damon made a surprise appearance at a Seoul baseball game on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Having arrived in Korea the same day to promote his new film “The Odyssey,” Damon was seen at Gocheok Sky Dome in Guro District, western Seoul, watching a KBO game between the Kiwoom Heroes and SSG Landers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a photo released by Universal Pictures, the distributor of “The Odyssey,” Damon was seen sporting a Kiwoom Heroes jersey, standing in the stands. He was reportedly cheering on Heroes’ batter Matt Davidson.<\/p>\n
Footage of Damon clapping and enjoying the game also appeared on the game’s live broadcast.<\/p>\n
The Heroes responded to Damon’s support on Instagram.\u00a0“[Matt Damon] enjoyed watching the game with his family,” the team said on Sunday. “He said he came to the ballpark at Matt Davidson’s invitation.”<\/p>\n
Director Christopher Nolan and actor Charlize Theron are also in Korea to promote “The Odyssey.”<\/p>\n
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BY JANG GU-SEUL [lee.jian@joongang.co.kr]<\/p>\n
This article was originally written in Korean and translated by a bilingual reporter with the help of generative AI tools. It was then edited by a native English-speaking editor. All AI-assisted translations are reviewed and refined by our newsroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The actor surprised fans by attending a Kiwoom Heroes game with his family, reportedly at the invitation of\u00a0Heroes’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-572882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}