The bane of every sportswriter’s job is writing a game recap on deadline in which the lead changes in the final minute or on the last play — and add extra innings or overtime for double the fun. In Korea, there will now be one scribe not cursing the late story change, as the Yonhap News Agency has introduced a robot reporter to write automated game stories of English Premier League matches this season.
Yonhap, a major news wire service in South Korea, experimented with its Soccerbot last season; the machine spun out game stories for all 380 EPL matches in no more than two seconds.