Actually, this isn’t as bad as game fixing, so the headline should probably read Korean Field Hockey League Kind of Bad, but Not as Bad as Taiwanese Pro Baseball League. However, this implicates 102 people and nearly every team in the league.

Video of Korean news report showing the league’s crooked books here.

From Korea Beat:

102 people including coaches of national and local hockey teams and the head of the Korea Hockey Association (대한하키협회) have been found to be taking money from equipment companies.

On the 8th investigators from the Gyeongnam Police Department applied for an arrest warrant for a 49-year old named Han, who works for a hockey equipment company, on charges of providing bribes to coaches in others in exchange for purchase orders. Police have applied for an arrest warrant for a 51-year old named Kim, coach of a women’s hockey team in a city identified only as M, on charges of receiving over 54 million won from Han, and have arrested without detention 98 other coaches of men’s and women’s hockey teams on similar charges.

Police have also applied for separate arrest warrants for 55-year old Yang, president of the KHA, on charges of embezzling money to be used for overseas training of the national hockey team, and 54-year old Gweon, former hockey coach at university C, on charges of taking money from parents in exchange for putting their children on the team.

Editor’s Note: The photo above is not from the Korean Hockey League, and is taken from the  article Field hockey’s fab four — Seniors bust a move on the field and in the classroom, which is about the 2003 James Madison Female Hockey Team.