On April 13, 2014, at the training ground of the South Korean short track speed skating team, a stout middle-aged man stopped a young girl who had just come down from the ice rink.
The girl was puzzled by the coach's behavior, and she asked, "Coach, is there anything wrong?" ”
The coach in front of him looked a little bad, and he hurriedly said to the girl: "Go to the locker room!" ”
The girl followed the coach to the locker room without any defense, and the coach very unusually locked the door of the locker room.
At this time, it was already dark outside the window, and the girl had just won the gold medal some time ago, and was still in the excitement period, and was the last person in the team to finish training.
The entire speed skating team now consists of only two girls and two coaches, and the girls feel scared at this time.
Before the girl could figure out a countermeasure, she was already thrown down by her own coach.
The coach told the girl that if she wanted to stay in the sports world, she had to obediently obey him.
Who is this girl who was sexually assaulted by the coach? What is her coach capable of covering the sky with one hand and making the girl obey his arrangement?
"Coach knowingly uses violence"
On January 17, 2018, on the eve of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, south Korean President Moon Jae-in came to Jincheon, South Korea, to visit the short track speed skating team.
South Korea's short track speed skating is similar to the mainland's table tennis and diving events, and is called the "Dream Team" by their respective countries.
In the South Korean short track speed skating women's team, there is a rising star - Shen Shixi.
Shen Shixi was born in 1997, and since 2012, Shen Shixi has gradually emerged in short track speed skating.
At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, shen Shixi, who was only 17 years old, won several medals in one fell swoop, including the gold medal in the women's 3000m relay.
Shen Shixi suddenly became a "genius girl" and "national hero" in the Korean population.
As a pillar figure in the Korean women's team, Moon Jae-in also specifically asked Shen Seok-gye when he came to the short track speed skating team.
Unfortunately, the coach of the short track speed skating team told Moon that Shen Shixi could not come to the scene because of a sudden cold.
Originally, this incident was just a small episode when the president visited the athletes, and there was no storm.
However, a few days later, south Korean media revealed that the coach of the short track speed skating team had deceived the president.
Because of its connection to the president, the news shook most of the South Korean people at once.
The media said that on January 16, the day before the president's visit, Shen Shixi was beaten by her coach Zhao Zaifan!
Shen Shixi was not absent from the cold at all, but felt angry and ran away after being beaten!
The departure of Shen Shixi is a huge loss for the Korean short track speed skating team.
After the incident was exposed, her coach Cho Jae-bum was removed and another coach, Park Se-woo, temporarily took over his job.
After Park Se-woo took over the work, he invited Shen Shixi, who had left, back for the first time.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this accident that occurred before the Winter Olympics that Shen Shixi made mistakes in the three individual events on the Winter Olympic games.
Not only did she fail to touch the medal, but she was out early before she even made it to the final.
At the Wenchang Winter Olympics, Shen Shixi only won one gold medal in the women's 3000m relay.
After the Wenchang Winter Olympics, Shen Shixi pointed the finger at coach Zhao Zaifan for his game mistakes.
Shen Shixi said that coach Zhao Zaifan punched her into a concussion before the Winter Olympics.
This caused her to pass out on the field during the PyeongChang Olympics.
Not only that, Shen Shixi also said that three female members of the short track speed skating team had been violently beaten by Zhao Zaifan.
In 2017, Zhao Zaifan also attacked Shen Shixi's head with skating tools, causing Shen Shixi's forehead to rupture and bleed.
After the incident was exposed, Cho Jae-fan was permanently removed from the South Korean Ice Alliance.
Police intervened in the incident in which Shen Shixi was violently beaten by the coach.
On May 23, 2018, South Korean police concluded that cho jae-fan's actions were serious and required further investigation.
During the police interrogation, Zhao Zaifan admitted to what he had done.
Zhao Zaifan believes that he will punch and kick at them in order to improve the level of his team members.
However, the Korea Ice Federation has clear rules that violence cannot be used.
On September 19, 2018, a South Korean court sentenced Cho Jae-fan to 10 months in prison for knowingly committing the crime.
However, Zhao Zaifan's imprisonment is not the end, when Zhao Zaifan was imprisoned, Shen Shixi broke out a deeper dark curtain.
"Coach sexually assaults athlete for up to four years"
In January 2019, Shen Shixi took Zhao Zaifan to court again, this time Shen Shixi said that Zhao Zaifan sexually assaulted her.
According to Shen Shixi, Zhao Zaifan has sexually assaulted her many times in the past four years.
Not long after the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Shen Shixi, then 17, was tricked by Zhao Zaifan into the skating room of the ice rink.
Zhao Zaifan was 16 years older than Shen Shixi, and Shen Shixi, who was still an adult, could not resist Zhao Zaifan at all.
After completing the beastly act, Zhao Zaifan warned Shen Shixi and asked her not to tell the story.
If the matter leaked, Zhao Zaifan said that he would make Shen Shixi unable to eat and walk around, and let her sports career end.
Although his heart was full of resentment towards Zhao Zaifan, Shen Shixi did not dare to resist him at all.
After that, Zhao Zaifan was out of control.
Zhao Zaifan does not pick the venue, in the athletes' villages across South Korea and the ice sports field, Shen Shixi has been sexually assaulted by Zhao Zaifan.
Even on the eve of the Pyeongchang Olympics, Zhao Zaifan also sexually assaulted Shen Shixi.
In these four years, Shen Shixi's body and soul were suppressed by Zhao Zaifan.
Shen Shixi suffered from severe depression, and she lived in nightmares every day.
Shen Shixi was selected as an athlete by Zhao Zaifan when he was in elementary school.
Since Zhao Zaifan became Shen Shixi's coach, he has always instilled the concept of "absolute obedience" in Shen Shixi.
This also caused Shen Shixi not to dare to tell the people around him about the matter.
She gritted her teeth alone to face these things, until Zhao Zaifan was imprisoned, Shen Shixi dared to tell her parents about the sexual assault.
With the encouragement of his parents and relatives, Shen Shixi plucked up the courage to take Zhao Zaifan to court again.
After Shen Shixi exposed the sexual assault incident, it immediately set off an uproar in South Korea.
South Korea's deputy minister of culture and sports has also publicly apologized, saying that similar cases will be reviewed and thoroughly investigated.
However, Zhao Zaifan's accusations against Shen Shixi were denied in every way.
Zhao Zaifan had no remorse in court, he denied the crime of sexual assault, and resolutely did not apologize to Shen Shixi.
Shen Shixi personally testified during the trial.
She was very sad to see Zhao Zaifan's unashamed appearance, and she cried out many times during the trial.
Shen Shixi said: "I don't understand why the perpetrator can have no psychological burden, but as a victim, I have to go to psychological treatment all the time."
Shen Shixi and her lawyer also expressed the hope that Zhao Zaifan would be sentenced to more than 20 years in prison.
However, the final result did not go as she wished.
On January 21, 2021, the Suwon District Court of South Korea issued a public verdict.
Zhao Zaifan admitted that he had committed rough behavior during his time as a coach, but denied that he had ever committed a sexual crime.
The court did not listen to Zhao Zaifan's one-sided words, and through investigation, the court found that Zhao Zaifan's crime of sexual assault was true.
In the end, Zhao Zaifan was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison, in addition, Zhao Zaifan also needed to receive 200 hours of psychological treatment to solve his sexual violence problem.
After Zhao Zaifan was released from prison, he also had to impose 7 years of employment restrictions.
In the process of restriction, Zhao Zaifan cannot be related to children and adolescents, and he can no longer continue to work as a coach.
In the face of this result, Shen Shixi was not satisfied, and she said that the court still sentenced it too lightly to erase the wounds in her heart.
"Endless sexual assaults"
In South Korea, athletes have been violated far more than Shen Shixi.
Although after each incident was revealed, the South Korean government would apologize to the public and say that it would investigate thoroughly.
But sexual assault in South Korea has been repeatedly prohibited.
South Korean tennis player Kim Eun-hee has also stood up and accused the coach of rape.
At that time, Kim Eun-hee was still very young and didn't even know what the coach's behavior meant.
The coach always called her into the room and then violated her.
Kim Eun-hee is still young, and although she doesn't know it's sexual assault, she also feels pain.
But the coach kept threatening her, demanding that she not say the truth or face retaliation from the coach.
It wasn't until Kim Eun-hee turned 27 that she was willing to give up the fact that she was sexually assaulted as a child.
Two years ago, Kim Eun-hee got married, and the pain that had been buried in the depths of his memory was revived.
Under the comfort of her husband, Kim Eun-hee was finally able to stand up bravely.
And Kim Eun-hee found that the parents of other girls who were sexually assaulted denounced the coach's evil deeds.
But the coach was not punished in any way, and the announcement of the coach's dismissal read "suspicious appearance", but all of them did not mention the sexual assault.
After being dismissed, the coach moved to another city and began to continue his coaching career with dignity.
In addition to athletes, there are also righteous coaches to expose corruption in the Korean sports world.
Short track speed skating coach Yong Joon Hyuk's sister was also an athlete, but both her sister and teammates were sexually assaulted and beaten by the coach.
As a coach, Long Junhe took the initiative to expose this matter in order to protect his sister.
However, what Long Junhe did not expect was that after he submitted the materials, the matter did not follow.
Yong Joon-hyuk said that such incidents have actually been happening, but South Korean officials have always chosen to ignore them in order to calm things down.
What's more, in order to create the illusion of peace in the sports world, sometimes the official will take the initiative to erase things.
If Shen Shixi was not the world champion, she might only be able to break her teeth and swallow it in her stomach.
According to the data, about one in seven female athletes in the Korean sports world have been sexually harassed or even sexually assaulted.
And these female athletes, fearing reprisals, never turn to the outside world for help.
"Thorough investigation of the Korean scandal"
Sexual assault seems to have become a tacit part of The Minds of South Korean coaches.
In South Korea, the preference for sons over daughters is severe, and the hierarchical system of the predecessors and predecessors is even more stringent.
As female athletes who have been trained since childhood, they have become the "bottom" in the Korean sports world.
A South Korean coach once said publicly: "In the sports world, in order to stand firm, you have to make athletes obedient." ”
There are only two ways to make people obedient, one is through violence, and the other is through sex.
The future of the players is in the hands of the coaches, who gradually domesticate the athletes in a humiliating and violent way.
In June 2020, even a South Korean triathlete born in 1998 committed suicide.
Before committing suicide, the female contestant had sent a message to her mother, who asked her to help her make public the atrocities of those people.
The female player was once regarded as one of South Korea's most promising triathletes, but she was inhumanly tortured on the training team.
The female contestants were hungry and went to the supermarket to buy something to eat.
As a result, after being caught by the coach, he was beaten up by the coach in public.
In addition to the coaches, the doctors and seniors in the team all punched and kicked the female players, slapped and physically beaten.
The coach also asked her to buy 200,000 won of bread, which was converted into about 1,200 yuan of bread.
The female contestant who forced suicide ate the bread in front of everyone, threw up when she couldn't finish eating, and threw up and continued to eat.
Before committing suicide, the female players had repeatedly submitted complaints and love letters to the Korea Sports Association.
However, until the girl committed suicide, no measures were taken by the relevant authorities.
The successive outbreaks of violence and sexual assault have stung the hearts of the South Korean people.
They used sit-ins, marches, and other means to ask the authorities for an explanation.
South Korea's then-president, Moon Jae-in, also took similar cases seriously, and he also ordered that the relevant departments must thoroughly investigate the matter.
Moon hopes that after the investigation, the scandal in the South Korean sports world will be completely exposed and a new look in the sports world.
"Deformed Ecology"
At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, we did not see Shen Shixi's figure.
On the afternoon of December 21, 2021, Shen Seok-gyeong was suspended for two months by the Korea Ice League for insulting and slandering national team coaches and teammates.
According to South Korean media reports, Shen Shixi once publicly insulted and mocked his teammates in the short track speed skating team.
In the sports field that speaks with strength, Shen Shixi, who has won olympic gold medals, has a lot of say.
She deliberately blackmailed her teammates to lose to herself and miss the gold medal.
And before the race, Shen Shixi had threatened her teammates to knock her competitors out of the short track speed skating track.
After his teammates left, Shen Shixi also sent a message to taunt his teammates to celebrate the other party's exit.
Shen Seok-hee is a victim at the hands of Cho Jae-bum, and her bravery unveils the dark side of South Korea's sports scene.
But at the same time, Shen Shixi is also the maker of the dark side of the sports world, and she unscrupulously bullies her teammates in the team.
The contradictions revealed by Shen Shixi's body further reflect the deformed ecology of the Korean sports industry.
Since 2012, South Korea has been carrying out sports purification management, and many of these moths have been eliminated.
However, the road is long and long, and the long-term deformed ecology of the Korean sports industry cannot be completely eliminated in three or two clicks.
Only a few people dare to stand up and speak out, and in the dark, there are many more athletes who have been bullied who are being suppressed.
It is hoped that after the incident, South Korean officials can come up with more powerful means.
Really purify their sports world and make the Korean sports world better.
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