Volleyball bombing controversy is not to be postponed to’past history'[SS이슈]

Heungkuk Life Insurance Lee Jae-young, Lee Da-young, and Kim Se-young finish the game with a high five after losing with a set score of 2-3 in the match against Hyundai E&C held at the Suwon Indoor Gymnasium in Gyeonggi-do on the 29th. 2020.12.29. Reporter Dohoon Kim [email protected]

[스포츠서울 정다워기자] Professional sports live on the public’s attention. In order to develop the V-League, which is on the cutting board every day due to school violence issues, this crisis should be taken as an opportunity.

It was revealed that the twin sisters Lee Jae-young and Lee Da-young (Lee Sang Heungkuk Life), who represented the V-League Women’s Division, were the perpetrators of school violence in the past. Victims are coming out one after another, and the level of the assaults specifically testified is quite high. Not just the level of assault, but the magnitude of the social wave beyond imagination. The online video of the broadcast in which the twins appeared was deleted or turned to private, and the car brand that featured the two as models was also hidden. It is a movement that can clearly confirm how seriously the public takes this incident. To make matters worse, in the men’s division, OK Financial Group’s Song Myung-geun and Shim Gyeong-seop were revealed as other perpetrators. In the future, it is not known which player will be on the cutting board. It literally means that the volleyball world has entered a state of superficiality with a time bomb.

This is an issue that will be bad news for the V-League, which has emerged as a professional sport representing winter in recent years. Even from the perspective of the women’s national team, who expected a good trend by acquiring the right to participate in the Olympics, something unimaginable happened. It is a clear crisis, but if you think on the contrary, it can be seen as an opportunity to purify and renew the volleyball culture. This is because it can eradicate the culture that has justified violence and the high-pressure atmosphere that has prevailed so far, and make it a turning point for a healthy ecosystem.

First of all, taking appropriate disciplinary action against the perpetrators. Heungkuk Life’s judgment is the most important. Pro baseball’s Nexen Heroes (now Kiwoom) alone, after confirming the record of school violence by the first nominated rookie Ahn Woo-jin in 2018, imposed a severe disciplinary action for suspension of 50 games in the regular season. The Korea Baseball Softball Association, which leads amateur baseball, also imposed a’three-year suspension of qualification’ and drew a line so that he could not play as the national team. Last year, the NC withdrew the nomination after the first rookie of the year, Kim Yoo-sung, in 2021 became exposed to school violence. Kim Yu-sung’s entry into a professional is still unknown.

If a professional club dismisses this issue as simply a thing of the past and punishes the cotton bat, you have to take a headwind. There are concerns that will make the entire V-League as well as the team a victim. Even if it is not up to the level of permanent expulsion that some people have, it is only when the victims and the public are convinced of the level of disciplinary action to prevent further impact. In the case of Song Myung-geun and Shim Gyeong-seop, they gave up their remaining games this season to reflect on the past, and the club accepted it.

These school violence perpetrators are the players you know in the V-League. If these athletes do not spend enough time to self-sufficiently and continue to live normally, only the false perception that’athletes need only exercise well’ can be strengthened. Disciplinary discipline is needed to learn that prospective volleyball players will be punished appropriately if they harm others. This means that it is necessary to consider the level of educating young players so that they can live normally as members of society, inducing reflection of the perpetrator and comforting the victim.

Reflection and change of the volleyball world itself are essential. In particular, leaders who have tolerated violence and evil habits to produce good athletes and have only been on the lookout for victims must change their minds. Insung should play a role in helping to become a healthy member of society by throwing away the mindset that only professional players need to be made no matter what. If you don’t get to midnight yourself, more monsters can appear. It’s not just the volleyball world. This incident is sending a strong message to the sports world as a whole.
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