"Blackout Came" Former Baseball Player Jeong Su-geun Admits to Beer Bottle Assault

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Jeong Su-geun (47), a former professional baseball player who was booked on charges of assaulting a man he met for the first time at a drinking party, admitted to the charges during a police investigation.

According to the police on the 13th, Jeong, who was recently summoned to the Namyangju Police Station in Gyeonggi Province on charges of special assault, is reported to have fully admitted to the crime.

Jeong is accused of hitting a man identified as Mr. A twice on the head with a beer bottle in a pub in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, on December 21 last year while drinking together after meeting for the first time.

It is known that Mr. A testified that Jeong struck his head in anger after Mr. A refused Jeong’s proposal for a third round of drinks. As a result, Mr. A sustained head injuries and filed a special assault complaint against Jeong on the 2nd of this month.

After the incident, Jeong contacted Mr. A to apologize, but Mr. A reportedly wanted strict punishment.

In a recorded phone call released through a YouTube channel, Jeong said to Mr. A, "I am very sorry. I will cover all the hospital bills, so please get treated comfortably," adding, "We were having fun, and I don’t know why I did that. I blacked out."

Jeong Su-geun began his professional career with the OB Bears (now Doosan Bears). He debuted in the KBO League in 1995 and played for Doosan until 2003. In 2004, he became a free agent and transferred to the Lotte Giants. He played for Lotte until 2009 but was involved in controversies including having his license revoked due to drunk driving, getting into a fight with a security guard while intoxicated, and assaulting police officers at a police station. As a result, Lotte decided to voluntarily withdraw Jeong, and the KBO imposed an indefinite suspension, leading to his disgraceful retirement.

Even after retiring from professional baseball, Jeong Su-geun was booked multiple times for drunk driving and received fines or suspended prison sentences. He was caught driving without a license under the influence in 2021 and was sentenced to one year in prison in 2022.

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