Two Members of Gwangju Buk-gu Kendo Team Dismissed for Sexual Misconduct

Gwangju Buk-gu, Disciplinary Decision at Workplace Sports Team Management Committee Meeting

Two current and former members of the Kendo team affiliated with Gwangju Buk-gu Office, who were involved in sexual misconduct incidents, will be dismissed.

On the 11th, Gwangju Buk-gu held a Workplace Sports Team Management Committee meeting and, after discussing disciplinary actions against the two players involved in sexual misconduct as well as the coach and manager, decided to dismiss the two players.

Although the players have already resigned (officially discharged), the dismissal decision was made separately. Disciplinary measures against the coach and manager, who bear supervisory responsibility, will be reconsidered.

Since the dismissed players are fixed-term employees covered by the Labor Standards Act, they will not face additional disadvantages such as restrictions on severance pay despite the dismissal.

The committee also decided to postpone the disbandment of the Kendo team and to reconsider the matter through a future management committee meeting. This measure takes into account the upcoming National Sports Festival.

Previously, A, a former player of the Buk-gu Office Kendo team, was sentenced to 3 years and 6 months in prison without suspension and was taken into custody after being found guilty in the first trial for breaking into the lodging of a woman in her 20s, whom he met at a bar, and sexually assaulting her in July last year. Following this incident, Buk-gu conducted a special audit of its affiliated athletes and confirmed that another player, B, had received a suspended indictment in 2021 on charges of sexual harassment.

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