On May 3, bad news came from South Korean football, a player in the U18 echelon of Gimpo Club committed suicide because of bullying, Kimpo Club officially expressed condolences, and Korean media also followed up with reports. According to official sources, Gimpo Club will hold a memorial service for the young player in the home match on the 4th.
The young player was found dead around 7:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, when CPR was urgently performed, but to no avail. Because there were no traces of murder, it was considered suicide at the time. However, news soon came that the young player committed suicide because of long-term bullying by coaches and teammates.
South Korean media revealed that the player who committed suicide was bullied, which is directly related to an article titled "Save My Son" at the same time, and it is reported that the coach's insults, partiality and intimidation remarks against the player, humiliation in the shower, and bullying by some teammates lasted for more than 4 months. After the article was published, it aroused great attention, and soon tens of thousands of people expressed their attitude, angrily denouncing the bully, saying that they would take up the weapon of the law and let these people be punished.
This matter can be called a scandal in Korean football, it is worth mentioning that many sports in South Korea have had bullying incidents, and there have been many incidents in recent years. Among them, the main sisters of the South Korean women's volleyball team, Hua Li Duoying and Li Zaiying, were found to have bullying at the beginning of last year, and they bullied their classmates when they went to school, and the injuries caused to each other continue to this day. Soon the women's volleyball sisters admitted the incident and wrote a handwritten apology letter, and then the South Korean women's volleyball team expelled the two, and they also missed the qualification for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
The South Korean women's volleyball club's Heungkook Life Team player was found to have committed suicide in the dormitory, although the official explanation was that the player had diarrhea, but the media such as Yonhap News Agency slammed the club for concealing the facts, and a number of Korean media followed up, saying that the player was bullied in the team, so he embarked on an extreme road.
Short track speed skating has always been south Korea's strength, but it is also one of their darkest events, such as the infighting between two generals in 2020, Anderson Kim's lawsuit against Roh Sun-young, who said he had been abused since 2010. After Huang Daxian won the gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics, he was accused by his teammates of being excluded during the selection competition and so on. There are many incidents such as violence, exclusion, and bullying in South Korea's short track speed skating.
Therefore, the darkness of the Korean sports world is obvious to all, although it has been rectified many times during the period, but the effect is still not good, the Korean team is very strong in football, short track speed skating and other projects, but similar bullying and infighting between coaches and players are frequent, which is worth pondering.