Kiwoom, who was banned from away games and amateur tournaments, tied his hands and feet, what happened
Jul 15, 2025
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Kiwoom Heroes made a shocking decision ahead of the start of the second half. The KBO League has made an unprecedented replacement of the head coach, head coach, and senior coach at the same time.
The aftermath is fierce as they let the main players go here and there, make a team that can't stand the long-term race, and take responsibility for it to the on-site coach. Rumors of intervention by former CEO Lee Jang-seok, who was permanently expelled from the KBO on corruption charges, are rising again. He is still the club's largest shareholder. President Wi Jae-min is a prosecutor-turned-lawyer who has helped former CEO Lee in the legal dispute process. Recently, figures inside Kiwoom who are referred to as 'Lee Jang-seok Line' are entering major positions.
Amid the club's restlessness, general manager Ko Hyung-wook has been virtually tied up since the beginning of this year, losing all of his authority. What happened.
Coach Hong Won-ki's dismissal can be called "cruel", but head Ko may say "It can be". This is because the general manager can be pointed out as the one who made such a non-fightable team.
However, Ko was the head of a special character who was a former player. The main specialty is scouting. Since 2009, he has worked as a scout and formed a relationship with the Heroes. The scout team leader wrote the myth of becoming the head of the team. Ko was the head of the team who went directly to the scouting site even if he could not watch the game regardless of home and away. Ko's role was very important due to the nature of Kiwoom's team management, which has to select good players, raise and sell them to make money and maintain the ranking with their power. The general manager also has the authority to organize players other than scouts, so I couldn't help but pay attention to that. But unlike other managers, the area was a situation that gave a lot of authority to the operational part.
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The club cited scouting failures in recent years. Newcomers with superstar-class qualities such as Lee Jung-hoo (San Francisco) and Kim Hye-sung (LA Dodgers) have disappeared. What kind of club in the world expects players who just graduated from high school to play the main role immediately. That's not the time. There are no players in amateurs, and the gap in skills with existing seniors is widening. It picks potential players and grows them with at least two to three years to make them first-team players. Lee Jung-hoo and Kim Hye-sung are really special cases. If there was such a player, wouldn't Kiwoom Scouts have been selected of course. In the meantime, 'Take responsibility for the team's performance like this because you didn't pick the right player.' It's a ruthless task, like asking why you can't win the war against a country with nuclear weapons with a rifle.
In fact, it is not common sense to exclude jobs for this reason. There was an incident inside. Someone reported the corruption of the scout part to the high-ranking. An employee of the scout team received money and valuables at the amateur site, and the general manager Ko, who was quick in the field of scouting, could not be unaware of this.
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An official familiar with Kiwoom's situation said "Furado, no one believes that the general manager himself chose to give up two foreign pitchers and choose two foreign hitters." Recruitment of foreign players, which all failed this year, is not Ko's work." This means that there is another person who should be responsible for the current situation.
In Kiwoom's absence, few see it as Ko's will to give a large amount of money to certain veteran players such as Lee Hyung-jong, Won Jong-hyun and Lee Won-seok, and to sell all the main players to receive money and nomination rights.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
