KOVO finally apologizes for the crippling of the all-time rough-and-ready administration shameful cup competition
Sep 15, 2025
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KOVO announced an urgent apology on the afternoon of the 15th.
The 2025 Yeosu-NH Nonghyup Cup (hereinafter referred to as the Cup) continued to be noisy even before the opening. Initially, a total of eight teams were scheduled to participate in the tournament, including seven men's teams and the Thai invitation team, Nakhon Ratchasima. However, the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) did not allow each country to host the tournament during the World Championship. In the end, KOVO announced the cancellation of the men's competition in the process, but later announced that the competition would resume on a limited basis without foreign players and Thai teams participating.
That wasn't the end of it. Hyundai Capital, the men's division, notified the dropout. World player?According to KOVO's authoritative interpretation that even the players registered in the preliminary entry of the M tournament cannot play, Hyundai Capital was going to play without Rivero. Hyundai Capital, the winner of last season's treble, played the opening game of the cup against OK Savings Bank at Jinnam Gymnasium in Yeosu on the 13th. However, there were no players to continue the competition, so he finally decided to drop out. In the end, KOVO decided to play the rest of the tournament without Hyundai Capital.
Hereinafter, an apology issued by KOVO.
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The federation was notified by FIVB on September 12 (Friday), the day before the cup competition was held, and continued to coordinate opinions with FIVB on the competition, but decided to cancel the men's team altogether because it did not receive a final approval answer for the event until 24:00 on the 13th (Saturday). After that, around 4 a.m. on the 14th (Sunday), the competition was resumed with conditional approval from the FIVB.
Once again, I would like to express my sincere apology for causing confusion among volleyball fans, Yeosu city officials, broadcasters, sponsors, club officials, and overseas invitation teams for causing great inconvenience and disappointment in all these processes.
The federation will thoroughly analyze the cause of this and follow up on those involved. In addition, we will create a smoother communication channel with FIVB and come up with institutional supplementary measures to thoroughly proceed with our work so that similar things do not recur.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
