If you live in Korea you can watch tongiht’s KBS follow-up to last month’s program exposing the disturbing tendency of women’s basketball coaches raping their players. If you don’t live in Korea you can just sit back and wretch while you read this.
From a Korea Beat translationof a Sports Chosun article:
A broadcast on February 11th of KBS 1TV’s news program Ssam (쌈) about the situation of sexual violence in sports has generated a huge societal reaction.
But no significant changes have been carried out. On the 17th the program will broadcast a follow-up titled “2008 Human Rights Report on Sports and Sexual Violence” and has renewed discussion of a situation which has not seen any substantive reform.
KBS announced on that there are previously unknown victims of Park Myeong-su, former head coach of Woori Bank’s pro women’s basketball team and accused rapist.
A producer of the show said, “during our research we met other victims, and the greater problem is that the team knew of them but covered it up. We have confirmed that the team wanted to protect its parent company’s image and forced its players not to reveal the truth about Mr. Park’s sexual attacks and other incidents.”
Here’s a link to a post that refers to the first program on the subject.
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