On October 21 of last year, Heungkuk Life Setter Lee Da-young (from left), left Lee Jae-young and Kim Yeon-kyung are delighted after the team’s scoring success. yunhap news
Five days after the controversy over school violence between the twin sisters Lee Jae-young and Da-young (25), the club Heungkuk Life Insurance, the two players, suspended the two players indefinitely. The Korean Volleyball Association, which leads amateur volleyball, has decided to exclude the two players from the selection of national players indefinitely.
After debuting on the professional stage in 2014, the twin sisters, who had been active in the national team as well as their own team, were designated as school violence perpetrators, and faced the biggest crisis in their career. Even if the club’s discipline was lifted and returned to the court, it became difficult for the two players to wear the Taegeuk mark. The two athletes’ wishes, “I really want to win the Olympic medal when (Kim) Yeon-kyung’s sister plays,” were not theirs.
On January 13, last year, the two athletes won a ticket to the Tokyo Olympics final with Kim Yeon-gyeong and others in the Asian Final Qualifiers of the Tokyo Olympics on January 13, and said, “As it is the second Olympics, the biggest goal is to win a medal when Yeon-kyung is a little more responsible” (Lee Jae-young ) “The Tokyo Olympics are my first Olympics, and I want to win a medal when I have an older sister Yeongyeong” (Da-young Lee).
Heungkuk Life’s twin sisters Lee Da-young (left) and Lee Jae-young. yunhap news
The controversy spread as the dissension over Lee Da-young and Heungkuk Life’s players continued on the 10th, when the twin sisters and the victims who were active in the elementary and junior high school volleyball teams were posted on the 10th, alleging that they had suffered school violence by the two players.
Heungkuk Life Insurance has been called “Uh Woo-heung” (Heungkuk Life Insurance won anyway) before the season’s opening, with club franchise star Lee Jae-young, Lee Da-young, who transferred last year, and Kim Yeon-kyung, who returned to the domestic league after 11 years. Even a month before the end of the league, they faced bad news.
In response, the two players bowed their heads to their Instagram, saying, “I have hurt many people with irresponsible behavior.” Heungkuk Life Insurance also said, “I sincerely apologize to the victims,” and said, “We will do our best to manage players in the future.”
Additional disclosures continued as the club issued an apology and struggled with the level of disciplinary action. In 2009, a victim who lived with twin sisters in the volleyball club of Jeonju Geunyeong Middle School in Jeonbuk, Jeonbuk said, “We have to take disciplinary measures when it is acceptable to the players.” “I can’t do that,” he said.
Subsequently, the victims’ parents revealed that the twin sisters’ mother, former national player Kim Kyung-hee, came to the stadium and coached the sisters directly.
Following the revelations against the twin sisters, the school violence controversy overwhelmed the volleyball world as Song Myung-geun and Shim Gyeong-seop belonging to OK Financial Group, a male professional volleyball player, were exposed to school violence. OK Financial Group acknowledged that the two players were inflicted after a day of controversy, and announced that it would accept the position of the two players that they would not compete in the remaining games in a sense of self-sufficiency.
When the two teams, each with 7 games left in the regular league, gave a disciplinary level to the level of suspension of the remaining games, criticism emerged as to whether it was a lukewarm response unlike the seriousness of the situation. Social Network Service (SNS) says, “There are less than 10 games left this season?” “Isn’t that much paid leave?” “Self-discipline of the perpetrator” “Would you not have any awareness of school abuse if you were permanently expelled?” And so on.
On the 14th, the online community said, “I am a victim of professional women’s volleyball school abuse. It was urgent to come up with effective follow-up measures at the level of volleyball circles, such as associations and alliances, as the controversy continued with another disclosure post claiming that it was everyday to eat preservatives and do self-harm in the bathroom due to harassment of seniors during school days. It is a situation.
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