Professional soccer ‘Jeonnam players assault’ reward and punishment committee fails to reach a conclusion and continues on the 17th

To submit additional materials and ensure sufficient opportunity to make statements

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ahn Hong-seok = The Korea Professional Football League has decided to continue deliberation by the Rewards and Punishments Committee on an assault incident within the K League 2 Jeonnam Dragons team.

The Professional Federation announced that it dealt with the assault case between Jeonnam players at the 8th Rewards and Punishments Committee held on the 5th, but decided to continue the deliberation later in order to give both players an opportunity to submit additional materials and to ensure sufficient opportunities for the parties to make statements.

The follow-up deliberation will be held at 3pm on the 17th.

Previously, on the 22nd of last month, Jeonnam apologized to the fans through the club's social media, saying, "Recently, there was an unpleasant incident involving some players drinking and bullying among players within the team."

The club said, “After determining the facts, we immediately expelled the person involved as a punishment for punishing one punishment.”

Player A, who was expelled, is known to have harassed a junior player several times and recently became violent after drinking.

After confirming this through the victim player's report, the club terminated the contract with Player A on the 19th of last month.

On the 20th of last month, the professional league requested the Jeonnam club to submit a fact confirmation and decided to open a rewards and punishment committee.