[뉴스Insight] Volleyball’s’Happy Me Too’ should be the starting point for ending barbaric violence

Heungkuk Life’s’twin sisters’ Lee Jae-young and Lee Da-young (above 25) were indefinitely deprived of the qualifications of national representatives of the female professional volleyball player Heungkuk Life, who caused social controversy due to school violence in middle school. The photo shows Lee Jae-young (left) and Lee Da-young of Heungkuk Life, who were selected as All-Stars by fan vote before the match between Incheon Heungkuk Life and Seoul GS Caltex held at Incheon Gyeyang Gymnasium on the 26th of last month. yunhap news

Digital Editorial Writer Kim Ji-seok

The past school violence problem of the twin sisters Lee Jae-young and Lee Da-young, female professional volleyball star players, is throwing shock waves in society. These players were not only the core of their team, Heungkuk Life, but also the main players of the national team preparing for the Tokyo Olympics, but at the height of their heyday, their past mistakes were revealed and they collapsed in an instant. It is natural that measures for victims of school violence should be given priority over their fall. They were subject to indefinite suspension from their teams, and the Volleyball Association decided to disqualify their national team indefinitely.

Not only these people, but also Song Myung-geun and Shim Gyeong-seop, who belong to OK Financial Group for men’s volleyball, have been identified as perpetrators of school violence in the past, and the wave is spreading. The players admitted and apologized for their wrongdoing, but social anger against them has not subsided easily. Another female volleyball player is also being accused of being a perpetrator of school violence, which is causing ripples. Prior to this, trot singer Jin Dal-rae had to get off the show because it was revealed that she was a perpetrator of school violence in the past. Star-level athletes and famous singers are expected to have different personality and attitudes in life to match their successful careers and skills, but they were blamed for rejecting such social expectations.

School violence can never be seen lightly because it leaves a great scar on the victim. Asking for forgiveness as a childish act is not an easily accepted problem. Even if the perpetrators’ painful reflection and sincere apology can heal the victims’ hearts, the wounds will not heal easily. This excommunication is hurting not only the parties to the case but also our society as a whole. It has been a long time since school violence has emerged as a serious social problem, but there are many shock aftershocks as popular sports stars have caused great disappointment to fans and members of society.

Since violence reveals the barbaric side of man, it is necessary to look back at our society with this incident. In our society, the problem of violence that has progressed as a custom in the dark structure has been constantly arising. I know it’s almost gone now, but there were times when violence in the military was taken for granted. Verbal violence between bosses and junior employees in the workplace, a culture of gapjil accompanied by even physical assault, violent Gap-eul relations between large corporations and subcontractors, and sexual violence against women triggered by’Me Too’ erupted everywhere. Violence in various parts of society, which had been neglected as not in the past, has the effect of improving by rising to the surface, but it still remains like a chronic disease.

In particular, the problem of violence in the sports world has emerged as long as we forget it, and in recent years it is being exposed more often. Strict hierarchical order between leaders and players, or between senior and junior players from elementary, middle, and high school student days, and a repressive atmosphere by being buried in sexual supremacy and violent language arising from that hierarchy The rigors of training in the city are still not improved and can be burned at any time like the embers of a bomb. Even if a competent player in the team has an act of harassing a specific player, there are many situations in which the leader and surroundings pretend not to know it. Short track coach Cho Jae-beom’s sexual assault case, and the late Triathlon Choi Sook-Hyun made an extreme choice after being plagued by his leader and colleagues.

In the past, problems such as school violence and sports violence were not known to the surroundings and passed by, or even when exposed to the outside, they were hurriedly closed. Now, the victims are raising an alarm in society by actively revealing them with courage. The problems of school violence from a long time ago can revive and become public at any time. This is a pattern in which the flow of’Me Too’ accusing women of sexual assault damage leads to the flow of’Me Too’ against school violence. Another case of exposure to violence in the sports world may follow. Such a movement can be seen as a movement to advance toward a better society while allowing us to look back on the brutality of our society in which violent culture is embedded.

Shin Moo-cheol, Secretary General of the Korean Volleyball Federation (KOVO), is giving a briefing on the results after finishing the’Emergency Countermeasure Committee for Elimination of School Violence’ at the Korean Volleyball Federation in Mapo-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 16th. yunhap news

Coping with school violence and sports violence must start with a new perception that it responds to the demands of the times. It should be approached from the mindset and attitude of fundamentally eliminating the problem of violence that is spreading throughout the school and the sports world, rather than dealing with individual cases. Although the President ordered the new Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism to take special measures to fundamentally eradicate violence and irrationality in the sports world, the Ministry of Education, which is in charge of school sports, must also deal with school violence with an extraordinary attitude.

The hardened magnetism in the whole sports world must also follow. School violence and sports violence were often resolved by focusing on superficial solutions whenever problems broke out. It was common for the leaders and players to end up with discipline. It was common to deal with matters with ease, ignoring the serious wounds caused by violence. Violence was regarded as something that could happen in the course of training toward a goal, and the wrong situation could not be corrected. As the field of sports administration, such as the leaders, athletes, and the Korea Sports Association, which manages them, has not escaped from pre-modern accidents, problems arose like a festering wound and reached a point of control.

In order to strengthen the protection of human rights in sports, the second revised’National Sports Promotion Act’ (aka Choi Sook-Hyeon Act) will take effect on the 19th. The core contents of the so-called’Choi Sook-hyun Act’ are: ▷Immediately obligated to report human rights violations and corruptions on sports persons, and strengthen measures to protect the reporter and victim ▷Specify the authority to investigate, and to demand disciplinary action when interfering with or rejecting the investigation, etc. These include sanctions and reinforcement of restrictions on returning to sports. Among these, the sports ethics center, which plays a key role, can engage in corrective action or disciplinary action for the person in charge of the relevant institution or organization, and recommend measures to protect victims and exclusion of the respondent’s work.

The Korea Volleyball Federation (KOVO), which was intent on preparing countermeasures, also announced that it would exclude those involved in school violence from the new draft, and to permanently expel them if the facts of school violence were later revealed. Until now, permanent expulsion has only been taken in cases of rape, similar rape, equivalent sexual violence, and serious sexual assault. In addition to these movements, countermeasures that may cause fundamental changes must also be considered. No matter how good you are, you need to instill a sense that if your personality is not good, you cannot get foot in the sports world.

Improve the quality of the leader and establish proper leadership, break down the excessively strict hierarchical order between the leader and players, and between senior and junior players, review the abolition of camp training that may cause violence, and create a team culture that can consider and harmonize with colleagues and opponents, It is necessary to check the overall elite sports such as player discovery and development system. In order that the sports world no longer becomes a blind spot for human rights, meticulous policies of both the sports community and the relevant authorities must be implemented. Experts, such as Kim Byeong-jun, professor at Inha University’s Sports Science Research Institute, have expressed the opinion that an education and surveillance system for leaders, seniors, and talented players who can exercise power within the team is essential.

We listen to the voices of the victims while watching the school violence outbreak. The confession that we wanted to quit because we were afraid of violence even though we wanted to do our favorite sports resonates. The victims of school violence of sisters Jae-young Lee and Da-young said, “A lot of time has passed, but they are still living with trauma because of the perpetrators. It is time for everyone to pay attention and make an effort to eliminate brutal and structural violence in school, in the sports world, and in our society, reflecting on the pain and screams of the victims.