Reporter Gyeongnam Gyeongnam = The Korea Sports Association announced on the 16th that it has finally rejected the approval of Choi Cheol-won, president of the Korea Ice Hockey Association (CEO of Might & Main), who caused social controversy through the so-called’match-price assault’.
An official from the sports association said, “Because of the premise and social atmosphere that violence should disappear in sports, Choi refused to approve it because it was considered to have caused controversy.”
After being elected for the next president-elect of the Korea Ice Hockey Association in December last year, CEO Choi submitted an application for approval to the athletic meet.
However, the sports association refused to approve the member sport group on the grounds of disqualification for those who caused social controversy.
CEO Choi is a person who bought social resentment by assaulting a freight worker in 2010 and handing 20 million won in the name of’meat price’. At that time, he was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison at the first trial and probation at the second trial.
It is said that Choi’s case of’Matt Price Assault’ became the motif of the movie’Veteran’.
When the news that CEO Choi was elected as the head of a sports group was announced, the voices demanding resignation from the sports community increased. In the politics, the ‘Chief Cheol-won Ban Act’ was proposed, and civic groups also insisted on rejecting approval.
Eventually, the Sports Council decided to reject Choi after discussing whether to approve it.
The case of Jae-young Lee and Da-Young Lee, the’twin sisters’ of Heungkuk Life’s female professional volleyball player, who recently caused social controversy due to school violence seems to have had an impact.
An official of the sports association explained, “There are two options left for Max-pyo. Resigning by himself or taking a lawsuit,” he said. “If you resign, you have to re-election.”
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