Football: South Korea Scraps Cup to Tackle Graft
February 27, 2012
Related articles
South Korea Footballer Kills Himself After Match-Fixing Ban 5:45pm Apr 16, 2012
Football: China Eager for a Chance At Continental Eminence 9:42pm Mar 5, 2012
Football: Sore S. Korea Wants Oman Punished for Unruly Fans 7:42pm Feb 23, 2012
South Korea’s National Team Mulls Picking a New Citizen 9:27pm Jan 20, 2012
Doni Admits Fixing Serie B Matches 7:57pm Dec 25, 2011
Post a comment
Please login to post comment
Comments
Be the first to write your opinion!
Tokyo. South Korean football officials have scrapped the K-League Cup competition as part of sweeping changes brought in to avoid a repeat of last year’s damaging match-fixing scandal.
After the government waded into the scandal by threatening harsh crackdowns on illegal sports gambling and corruption, K-League officials moved quickly to repair the battered image of the game.
“We’ve made extra efforts to ensure fair and transparent officiating,” K-League commissioner Chung Mong-kyu told Yonhap news agency on Monday.
“Games will be refereed in acceptable and reasonable fashion,” added Chung before the start of the 2012 season this coming weekend.
South Korean football’s image was left battered last year after a probe into match-fixing allegations led to nearly 50 players being arrested.
It was the worst scandal to hit the 29-year-old K-League, with a former coach and player, whom Korean media linked to the match-fixing ring, found dead in separate incidents after suspected suicides. The government at one point threatened to shut down the K-League altogether.
Reuters
- Lady Gaga Angers Thai Fans With Fake Rolex Comment
- Djoko Says ‘I Don’t Care’ About FPI Demonstration
- If You Don’t Like It, Don’t Watch, Djoko Says of Gaga
- 'Stop Treating Indonesia as a Beggar Nation,' Australian Academic Urges
- New Traffic Flow Around Kuningan Intersection
- National Exams' ‘Fantastic’ Passing Rate Suspicious: ICW
- Lady Gaga Concert Promoter Has Two Days Left to Get Permit for Indonesia Show
- Porsche With Military Plates Riles Officials
- Singapore Blogger Xiaxue Fights Back Against Facebook Abuse
- Jakarta Police Prepare to Deploy 2,000 Officers for Lady Gaga Concert
-
5:25pm | Djoko Says ‘I Don’t Care’ Abou...
I hear on good advice that if the show does go on then she will do a cover of SBY's greatest hits A 4 second medley dedicated to th -
5:23pm | Bogor Police Identify IPB Secu...
"shot to death" x2. As opposed to what? Shot to life? -
5:23pm | Yudhoyono Seeks to Take Charge...
@ Jubal: love the comparison, LoL. He’s spent so much time locked away in his ivory tower avoiding the unpleasant things that ordina -
5:15pm | Lady Gaga Billboards in Kuning...
These are pretty big billboards. So someone came along with ladders to this deserted side street and painted them over, and nobody noticed. -
5:10pm | Djoko Says ‘I Don’t Care’ Abou...
“Why bother commenting on a demonstration? Like I don’t have better work to do.” Djoko for President is what I say. I have no idea who he is -
5:10pm | Yudhoyono Seeks to Take Charge...
As with the country, he seems to have left it a little late. The man is a total disaster, a sad clown. Not capable of running a bath -
5:01pm | Bogor Police Identify IPB Secu...
Nothing like warning them so they can run away. -
4:59pm | Lady Gaga Billboards in Kuning...
People who vandalize are vandals and if they claim to be following Islam, then they are liars also
