The players of the corruption gift set were also infuriatedWhy did you issue a statement condemning Kiwoom for the operation of the barracks
Jul 16, 2025
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The Korea Professional Baseball Players Association (hereinafter referred to as the Korea Professional Baseball Players Association) recently shot the Kiwoom Heroes club, which even hired the children of the former owner, who was permanently disqualified for the simultaneous dismissal of the shocking manager, general manager, and head coach. It is argued that Kiwoom's move lowers the overall quality of professional baseball and undermines the authority of the players.
The Korea Federation of Players, led by Yang Hyun-jong (KIA) as chairman, issued an official statement on the 16th condemning Kiwoom's move.
Kiwoom made an unprecedented decision on the 14th to dismiss head coach Hong Won-ki, general manager Ko Hyung-wook, and head coach Kim Chang-hyun at the same time. Although it is said to be in last place for three consecutive years, criticism poured out over the abnormal behavior of holding the field accountable without forming a fighting force. Kiwoom is a representative small market club, with the lowest salary cap and few FA players. He is busy saving money on recruiting foreign players and selling key players to get cash and nomination rights. It is also unclear where the tens of billions of won in compensation received after sending Lee Jung-hoo and Kim Hye-sung to the Major League will be used.
On top of that, the daughter of former CEO Lee Jang-seok, who was permanently disqualified from the KBO for corruption within the club, was found to have worked as an intern for the club twice last year, sparking a stir. It was revealed that he worked as a special bond without a procedure because words were spoken even after the open recruitment process. Former CEO Lee cannot affect any field of the club in relation to management.
The following is the full text of the statement of condemnation from the Korea Federation of Athletes.
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Recently, Kiwoom Heroes has been on the cutting board for its unconventional personnel appointments, and its contents are also at the level of a comprehensive gift set, including allegations of deformed personnel appointments by specific people and corruption in hiring parachutes.
However, the fingertips of these suspicions all point to one particular person, which seems sufficient to raise suspicions that the club's management is limping for a particular individual.
And it's an inconvenient truth known to baseball officials that this is not just yesterday or today, but that it has been hush-hush for years and then it has decomposed as much as the pus has rotted and exploded all at once.
Currently, Korean professional baseball is on an unprecedented box office run and is loved by unprecedented fans, breaking the record number of spectators every day.
As a result, Korean professional baseball players are doing their best in every game, and as a result, all-time ranking fights are taking place, and clubs are also holding various events in line with this situation or developing and selling goods aimed at the fan base.
Of course, there are still a lot of problems for Korean professional baseball to solve, such as improving the international competitiveness of Korean professional baseball, improving related infrastructure, improving the treatment of professional baseball players, and supplementing KBO league rules and regulations, and based on this quantitative development, players' associations, clubs, KBO and baseball-related organizations should put their heads together to solve their homework, but this is a quality concern and a healthy issue for the development of Korean professional baseball.
However, Kiwoom Heroes' current behavior is far from these right growth tasks and goes against the times, and it is still pointed out that they are sticking to the outdated operating system in which the club's management is dominated by one specific person, and people are saying that the personnel appointment was also made on a similar basis.
If the club is recognized as a private property and the evils to satisfy individual greed continue, it will be obvious that it will lead to a decrease in the quality of Korean professional baseball, and it will be an act of putting a damper on the success of Korean professional baseball, which has been booming for a long time.
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The abnormal operation of the Kiwoom Heroes, which has been revealed so far, is already causing many problems, but it is especially disastrous in terms of investment in players and facilities within the club.
Regarding salary cap, the operation of the team well below average will inevitably affect player depth and morale, which will inevitably act as a factor in the club's decline in performance.
If a certain club's performance declines are prolonged and fixed, this will not be just a problem for one club, but will inevitably lead to a decline in the quality of the entire professional baseball.
In particular, Kiwoom Heroes is a symbolic club based in Seoul, the capital of Korea, and currently uses the only dome stadium in Korea as its home stadium.
However, the reality has been stigmatized for years for selling players, and this has led to a decline in performance, and this year Kiwoom Heroes fans are cheering for their team, being ridiculed as a point vending machine.
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The poor and underdeveloped player locker room is cramped to use alone, so the players' luggage is always scattered in the hallway, and in fact, the players' association holds annual team tour meetings, but there is no proper training room or seminar room, so it is intertwined in a cramped locker room.
In response, the Players Association is an organization that represents the rights of domestic professional baseball players and serves as a bridge with professional baseball fans, and it can no longer overlook the club's unconventional operational actions and condemns them on behalf of Korean professional baseball players and professional baseball fans.
Kiwoom Heroes should reflect on the public criticism that they have stopped taking low-level steps that have been on the cutting board for the present and future of Korean professional baseball, and have been reduced to a means of one specific person, and even now, they should correct and normalize the club's deformed operation direction.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
