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Seo Jang-hoon, a former basketball player, opened his mouth to the suspicion of Hyun Joo-yup.
Seo Jang-hoon said in an interview with Sports Chosun on the 16th that he had never seen or heard Hyun Joo-yeop’s school violence.
He said, “Because I started playing basketball late, I was busy covering my face. The atmosphere at the time was that high school students didn’t even care what the young children in middle school were doing. Besides, I wasn’t a claimant when I was in school, so I had fewer opportunities to interact with my juniors. At the time, the argument was Jaehan Yoon.
Seo Jang-hoon said, “I know that he is not a basketball club, but I don’t know why he is all over me.”
Also, regarding the suspicion of Hyun Joo-yeop, “I first knew it through the press, but I was surprised. This time I knew whether Hyun Joo-yeop was the captain after I graduated. “I am still confused because it is so unbelievable.”
Regarding the claim that the prestige was great with the background of Hyun Joo-yeop’s family, he said, “At the time, there were several other players than Hyun Joo-yeop. It was a time when Hyun Joo-yeop grew into a player who was good at basketball, even if he wasn’t in the background. At that time, the parents took turns leaving the children of the players entirely to the teacher, except for occasional meat dinners for the players, and it was an atmosphere where they could not dare to interfere. ‘What privilege did Hyun Joo-yeop see?’ I’m not sure about that.”
He also expressed regret for the rising suspicion of academia in the sports world. Seo Jang-hoon said, “Because these things keep happening, I am worried that the public’s interest in sports will also be distant. In particular, Hyun Joo-yeop is embarrassed by suspicion, but it hurts so much that it is hard to believe that it was true. If there is any misunderstanding between the two, I hope that it will be resolved as soon as possible.”
Hyun Joo-yeop’s controversy about school violence began on the 14th in an article on the online community titled “The Truth of Hakpok by H, the best basketball player of the time”. Author A said that he was a high school junior of Mr. H, and claimed that Mr. H gave cheers to his past juniors, slap his head with the edge of a chess board, and forced him to buy snacks and drinks for a ridiculous little money. It also revealed that the night before the finals of the Gwangju National Sports Festival, he visited a prostitution establishment with his juniors.
When Hyun Joo-yeop was pointed out as Mr. H, on this day, through SNS, “it is too ridiculous to expose facts that are too different from truths that do not exist in a way that weaves and binds multiple memories,” he refuted the suspicion of academia. At the same time, he announced that he would request an investigation by an investigating agency and take legal action.
Then, Mr. A appeared on the YouTube channel’Foot-and-mouth disease’ on the 15th and asked, “Seo Jang-hoon, a one-year senior at Hyeon Joo-yeop’s Whimoon High School, knows this best.”