July 11, 2011
SOUTH KOREA NEWS – An innovative method at its best to fight corruption in sports, South Korea has introduced lie-detector tests to catch players who find truth a bit compromising before money.
After a match-fixing scandal revealed top players involvement, South Korea’s football league has decided to introduce this ultimate corruption battler in the sport. The corruption is also notably spread through other sport as well.
Investigation team questioned teams and top players from six teams are now under investigation
To avoid disgrace, the K-League has introduced some damage control measures to tackling this huge scandal, raising the player’s minimum wage and also imposed new sanctions on guilty players.
After the revelation of match fixing scandal in South Korea football, many clubs have now under threat of sanctions that will be found guilty after investigation. There are series of seminars conducted to preventing corruption in sports, and it will compulsory for players to attend the seminar; failing could lead them to be suspended from the sports.
The K-League takes a stick and carrot approach to fight this issue, doubling the minimum wage for players, hoping to remove the temptation of money.
The minimum wage is currently around $11,000 (£6,900) - less than half the national average income.
So far 46 players and 11 gamblers are under the charge of match fixing and many others under the investigation. 10 players are given lifetime bans.
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