Is taekwondo seeing a tainted reputation?
It may genuinely hold upwardly that the martial fine art of taekwondo is starting to run across a fleck of a bad rap , at to the lowest degree far when it comes to the Korean mainland (South-Korea).
It appears evidence is emerging , showing how taekwondo matches are existence fixed in addition to the results are existence rigged inwards favor of i of the fighters. H5N1 erstwhile executive of the Seoul City Taekwondo Association is reported to order an interview amongst a South-Korean radio programme where he talked rumors most bribery to manipulate the results of taekwondo matches.
"Bronze medal costs 10 meg won , silverish twenty meg won , gilt twoscore meg won…"One report talked most a virile individual bring upwardly of i taekwondo fighter , a high schoolhouse student. The guess inwards i of his son's matches clearly made a lot of bad in addition to highly suspect calls - something which led to the opponent existence declared winner of the fight.
"(It is) only a tip of iceberg." (from english.donga.com)
H5N1 calendar month after , the virile individual bring upwardly committed suicide every bit a upshot of the of import tally inwards his son's career , writing:
"My boy lost the tally because of those warnings in addition to he immediately wants to quit taekwondo. I cannot slumber in addition to I don't desire to consume .?.?. in addition to immediately I am exhausted inwards the end."
Even though it is quite something else killing yourself over this , it get's worse...
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