Violence and sexual assault have always been the world's two major criticisms of the Korean sports circle and entertainment industry, wave after wave of public appeals, wave after wave of judicial department rectification, it is still difficult to eradicate the stubborn disease; on January 11, 2022, finally someone was severely punished for this.
He is former KBL player Ki Katsuhiro.
This time, the perpetrator not only took a career for his actions, but also accepted legal sanctions and paid the price of freedom.
Hopefully, this is the beginning of a clear and transparent approach to violence in South Korean sports.
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On January 12, 2022, the news of the sentence of former KBL player Ki Seung-ho for violence appeared in the major South Korean media; according to reports, judge surnamed Jang of the Criminal Division of the Seoul Central District Court, sentenced him on suspicion of injury, and the core content of the verdict was -
6 months' imprisonment
"Because There is no special reason for Ki to commit violence against the victim." The victims who are athletes have caused great physical harm and fear that they will have sequelae and affect their careers. ”
This sentence can be carefully interpreted word for word against the event itself, and you will be amazed by the N-engraved shooting.
The reason why Ki Katsuhiro is called a former KBL player is because he was directly expelled from KBL after the incident.
Before committing the crime, Ki Sheng hao played for 3 teams in KBL, and in the 2013-2014 season, he averaged 14.6 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.2 assists per game, a proper start, and then gradually became a rotating player, while the 2020-2021 season of the crime was just transferred from Anyang to Ulsan Helios;
The first round of the playoffs coincided with the former owner, and the leader of the anyang at this time was the current Shenzhen foreign player Jared Salinger, who created the Korean myth of unbeaten in the playoffs and the finals MVP in KBL, starting from the round of 3:0 elimination of Ulsan.
On the night of April 27, 2021, when they were just eliminated, everyone went to the club's gym in a depressed mood to drink, and while drinking, they drank and drank something big:
Ki Seung-ho was violent to Jang Jae-seok, who was eventually sent to the hospital and diagnosed with an orbital fracture, while two other players who stopped the violence, Jeon Joon-bum (who had transferred to KJU KCC Aegis Club in the 2021-2022 season) and Lee Woo-seok, were also injured.
Hyundai Mobis Helios Club was quick to publicly admit the facts and issued an apology statement on April 29.
The violence also exposed the club's violation of the quarantine policy, so KBL held a special meeting for more than an hour at the KBL Center in Da Nang-dong, Seoul, on April 30, attended by Ki Seung-ho and held a brief briefing.
"I've recounted what happened that day. I apologize to (Zhang) Jae-seok and the other team members. ”
According to South Korean media reports, Ki Seung-ho was mainly because he had an argument with the head coach during the game, and he was so excited that he couldn't stand it and waved his fists, so depressed that he committed an overnight crime against the junior players.
This is the surprise of the first shooting.
"I've stated the exact facts. I submitted medical certificates and all materials related to the story. ”
"I'm sorry to meet the fans because of the negative incident. As a veteran of KBL, I take responsibility and feel sorry for everyone. I apologize to (Zhang) in Tin and the other team members. I would like to add an apology here. ”
According to the court judgment 9 months after the issuance, such an apology did not have a substantial impact on the judgment - the judge surnamed Zhang, who was in charge of the case, revealed after explaining the reasons for the judgment that Ji Shenghao's attitude after the case was not forgiven by the victims.
"He (the abuser) did not receive forgiveness from the victim, and the efforts made to make up for the other party's losses were insufficient."
Back at the time of the incident, Ki Shenghao, who apologized at the press conference and bowed his head and left the venue, unexpectedly left KBL and ended his basketball career - he was directly expelled from the league.
"Although it is an accidental crime, the loss of this crime as a professional basketball player is huge. Considering that he was a first-time offender and was reflecting, it was decided to sentence him (6 months). ”
Judge Zhang did consider Ji Shenghao's actual losses, but the implication was that a 6-month sentence was not much.
At the same time, the Ulsan Hyundai Mobis Helios Basketball Club was also fined 15 million won (about 80,000 yuan) for violating epidemic prevention regulations and committing violent acts within the team; considering the seriousness of the incident and the extremely bad social impact, KBL also decided to strengthen professional ethics education with all 10 clubs under its umbrella to prevent the recurrence of similar situations.
The most interesting thing about the incident is that Ki Seung-ho is 1-on-3; and he is only a small forward with a height of 196cm, who was 35 years old at the time of the incident, while the main victim of violence, Jang Jae-seok, is a center/big forward with a height of 206cm, and he and the other 2 team members are young people in their early 20s.
The 3 junior players are certainly not weak in martial arts, or Ki Sheng Hao has a kitchen knife in his hand, and it is not that the young people are drunk and only Ji Sheng Hao is awake.
The root cause of the surprise of these two moments is that the verdict is not mentioned, but the South Korean media reports clearly point out the key reason why the violence process is 1 hit 3:
In the Korean social system, in the face of violence by the predecessors, the younger generations can only be beaten and dare not fight back.
The culture of the predecessors and predecessors is an inescapable fact of Korean society, and it is also the root point that many school bullying and workplace bullying cannot be shirked, and its strict superior and subordinate system is a deep-rooted cultural phenomenon in South Korea.
In terms of specific performance, for example, the two sides who meet for the first time in South Korea will first greet the age, so as to judge whether to communicate in plain or honorific in the future; when encountering seniors on the road, bow and salute; when drinking and touching, the wine glasses of the juniors must not be higher than those of the predecessors; and so on;
At the same time, some vicious incidents caused by the culture of the predecessors and predecessors are frequent, and the tradition of "as long as it is the order of the superior, it is necessary not to question and not to resist unconditional obedience" is being questioned by young people.
To say that the surprise of the three-moment shooting case is the delicate relationship between Zhang Jae-seok and Ji Shenghao,
Eliminated from this series they were all 3 defeats, of which the first game of the two were substitutes, Ki Sheng Hao is a small forward, Zhang Zaixi and the starting center, foreign aid Sean Long's defense Ren Salinger slashed 40 points, 13 rebounds and 2 assists;
In the second game, Ki Shenghao did not get playing time, and Zhang Zaixi was promoted to the starting position, and he scored 15 points and also lowered Salinger's stats to 21 points, 14 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 blocks, but in the end he lost by 2 points;
The G3 duo, who bid farewell to the season, entered the starting lineup at the same time, but Zhang Zaixi changed to playing big forward, and Ji Shenghao, who played small forward, played 8 minutes and 29 seconds, ditto, the same as above, and the head coach changed sides and failed, so there was a fierce quarrel just mentioned, which also became one of the reasons why the seniors were violent to the juniors that night...
In this way, it is also related to Salinger, which is a surprise of the four-moment shooting.
What is more strange is that The data of Ki Shenghao's career farewell battle, in addition to the playing time, the rest, all of which are 0 -
A bad breath developed into the night's series play-offs, G4, Ki Katsu-ho opened the 1vs3 individual takeover mode and won a big victory.
After Ki Shenghao was expelled from KBL, Jang Jae-seok completely gained a foothold in the 2021-2022 season and turned into a starter, which can be described as a unique way to clear obstacles for his career and open the door to a bright future.
This is not quite in line with the judge's claim of great harm, and it should also be counted as a five-minute surprise.
While the 3 victims mentioned by the judge and the media are named, Chinese fans may have an impression of Quan Junfan.
Born in 1991, he was a member of the national team, represented South Korea in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, and was also selected for the training list of the 2019 Basketball World Cup, and he even had his own highlight moments in the national team .
In the 2019 Basketball World Cup qualifiers held at the end of 2017, South Korea beat New Zealand, and Jeon Joon-bum scored 22 points to become the biggest contributor to the victory.
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Campus chapter on violence in Korean sports
In recent years, there have been many scandals in the Korean sports world, and bullying juniors is one of the most prominent phenomena.
Although acts of violence like Ki Seung-ho's are punished by the law, the more bullying of younger generations in schools and as students, due to the age of inability to obtain evidence and cannot be held accountable, makes the perpetrators only accept a moral trial - although their careers have also been affected, but there are no legal provisions that can punish them.
Just earlier in 2021, someone began to ferment on the Internet by posting articles accusing women's volleyball players of bullying themselves, and finally pushed the twin sisters of the heroine of the incident, Li Duoying and Li Zaiying, to the public to accept the trial of public opinion and morality.
We might as well recall through words the sports scandal that shocked the South Korean president .
At 1 a.m. on Feb. 10, an article titled "I was a victim of abuse by an active volleyball player" went viral on the South Korean Internet, and in less than 24 hours, the post had more than hundreds of thousands of hits.
According to the "Chosun Daily" and other media reports, at the beginning of the month, a female volleyball player was unconscious in the dormitory, and the roommate reported that after committing suicide, he was taken to the hospital; originally the victim claimed that he just fainted with abdominal pain, not suicide; subsequently, there was an anonymous report of the Heunggu Life Team Lee Jae-young and Lee Do-young sisters bullying themselves.
As a victim, A listed 23 bullying behaviors, accusing the pai tan sisters of abusing their parents, as well as asking for money, slapping and kicking the stomach, and threatening with a knife;
In addition, Lee Jae-young and Lee Do-young were also accused of bullying many people, and 1 victim revealed that Lee Do-young and Lee Jae-young let their junior classmates wash their clothes.
This post quickly fermented in the online world, and the netizens were indignant and demanded that the truth be thoroughly investigated and the perpetrators severely punished; under the pressure of strong public opinion, Li Zaiying and Li Duoying admitted the fact of bullying and posted a handwritten apology.
"I used to act irresponsibly without understanding things, which caused harm to many people, and I would like to bow my head and apologize."
However, her words and deeds did not win forgiveness from the victims, and as the situation continued, the Korean Volleyball Association, as the competent agency, first announced that it would indefinitely deprive Lee Do-young and Lee Jae-young of their national team qualifications;
The club also quickly suspended Sister Flower.
The league cannot be played, and the national team cannot enter, which means that their volleyball career prospects have basically failed.
More seriously, the school violence in the sports sector alarmed South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
On February 16, 2021, Moon Jae-in presided over the State Council and issued some amendments to the Presidential Decree "Enforcement Order of the National Sports Promotion Act", which strengthened the protection of victims in the event of violence in the sports world, such as the establishment of temporary protection facilities for victims during accusations and consultations, the installation of cameras, and the immediate isolation of perpetrators and victims in the event of violence.
Moon Jae-in said that the repeated occurrence of atrocities, atrocities, sexual harassment and sexual violence in the sports world is stifling, and he hopes to take the promulgation of the amendment to the presidential decree as an opportunity to put an end to all kinds of violence from schools to the national team with the efforts of various government departments.
However, on the third day of the promulgation of the amendment, Yonhap News Agency and other media reported that Park Sang-ho, a male ranking player who had been selected for the South Korean national team, had also bullied his classmates when he was a student.
On February 19, a victim anonymously filed an online complaint against Park Sang-ho -
"I entered Theocheon Junior High School in Teigawa City, and on day 2 of the entrance ceremony, the nightmare began, and Park Sang-ho and another person took the initiative to exclude me, rob me of my money, and violence against me on the grounds that I came from the countryside, and they beat me for 14 hours."
"Several people dragged me to my apartment like kidnappers and took turns to brutalize me from 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next morning, including Park Sang-ho. I had a fractured nasal bone, lost two front teeth, scarred my ribs and was in hospital for 1 month. I thought about leaving this world, but thinking of my mother's love for me, I couldn't bear to do it. ”
Under pressure, Park Sang-ho issued a statement acknowledging the bullying of his classmates:
"We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to the team, teammates and volleyball fans, as well as the trouble caused to everyone. In fact, I did have violent acts when I was a student. I hit friends in junior high school, I hit my junior classmates in my dorm room in high school, and I'm very sorry for the people I hurt in middle and high school. ”
After the article accusing Park Sang-ho of bullying classmates was published, Park Sang-ho's team launched an investigation and immediately suspended Park Sang-ho's competition qualifications.
Perhaps feeling that there was no hope for the future, Park Sang-ho immediately announced his retirement.
The two scandals that appeared in The Korean volleyball scene both occurred during the contestants' past student days, indicating that the bullying behavior of sports players existed in the school days.
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