I'm so angry, sorry for the victim who must have been afraid, but I'm so angry at the shocking report of indiscriminate assault on the president of the Korea Sports Council, taekwondo coach, and high school student Yoo Seung Min.
May 04, 2025
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What was known through the JTBC report program 'Case Team Leader' and the report of the victim's parents on the 29th was shocking. According to the broadcast, the victim was a high school senior Taekwondo player, who reported that on March 28, he was assaulted by his coach while staying at a local accommodation to participate in the national Taekwondo competition for the president of a local university. 'The student assigned to the second-floor accommodation demanded a change of room if the smell of cigarettes was severe, but after the coach refused, he had a drinking party with other coaches. Furious that the student moved to the fifth floor without permission, he used a master key to enter the fifth-floor accommodation and assaulted three girls in the room' is hard to believe. The video, which appears to have been taken by the victim, showed the coach putting the horrified player on the bed with his face covered and trying to hit him. "I fainted in the middle of the hit, and my face hurt so much that I woke up, and the coach kept hitting me then."There were also testimonies saying ". They claim that the situation was finally over because other coaches who rushed to the rally stopped them, but the students' bodies were all bruised. The next day, even in the van to the stadium, Lee told the students "Would you like to be hit more? I can't see because of the tint." "Is it unfair to get hit?" If it's X, report it now." The video was recorded as it was.
As a result of the assault, one victim was diagnosed with a face injury, dislocated shoulders, wrists, and ankles, and broken teeth for three weeks, while another victim was hit in the face while wearing lenses, and the student wearing braces suffered damage such as teeth grinding. The fact that this was happening somewhere in Korea in 2025, when the spirit of the times is 'athlete's human rights' is the shock itself, and that high school seniors, whose college entrance and career paths are decided, were subjected to such a terrible incident by a coach who is 'Teacher' at the most important point in their lives. The school ruled out the coach on March 31, reported to the police on the 3rd, and the coach is currently under police investigation for child abuse under the Child Welfare Act.
Yoo Seung Min, president of the Korean Olympic Committee (OCA) as a coordinator for the Asian Olympic Council (OCA) Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games shortly after his trip, expressed outrage that could not be added through his SNS. As a parent of a student player whose two sons play soccer, and as the head of the Korea Sports Association, a former player who made the first pledge on player human rights and leader human rights, Chairman Yoo shared his shock, anger, and sorry. "I can't speak. I'm so angry.I just feel sorry for the victim who must have been afraid to be in this environment," he wrote. "We will focus all our capabilities on protecting victims and doing everything we can to prevent such a person from ever entering the sports world again." I'm getting really angry!," he said, promising to prevent a recurrence.
Meanwhile, Rep. Kim Ye-ji of the People's Power (National Assembly Health and Welfare Committee) proposed a partial amendment to the National Sports Promotion Act on the 1st, which clearly defines the types of human rights violations in the sports world and mandates the suspension or cancellation of the leadership's qualifications for serious human rights violations. Representative Kim Ye-ji said, `In some sports, serious human rights violations such as sexual violence, assault, and intimidation have occurred, leading to athletes quitting sports or making extreme choices"The number of reports of human rights violations received by the Sports Ethics Center has been increasing every year, with 371 cases in 2021, 454 cases in 2022, and 630 cases in 2023, but the rate that led to disciplinary action has been criticized for being 'smooth punishment'." Representative Kim Ye-ji's "Partial Amendment to the National Sports Promotion Act" specifically stipulates human rights violations such as assault, injury, sexual harassment, sexual violence, and discrimination, and also clearly stipulates unfair discrimination based on gender, educational background, disability, and social status among athletes, leaders, judges, and sports organizations. In particular, for serious violations such as special injuries, sexual harassment, and sexual assault, the qualifications of sports leaders must be suspended or canceled so that effective punishment and prevention of recurrence are included.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
