DB coach Kim Joo-seong protests against the referee’s decision on the 19th. /News
The basketball world was in an uproar as the third game of the playoffs between Wonju DB and Busan KCC ended on the 19th. This was because attention was drawn to the fact that a series of decisions by referees were in favor of KCC. DB center Kim Jong-gyu was sent off for five fouls just 11 minutes and 6 seconds into the game. Although there was a video review system (IRS, instant replay system), it was almost useless because the authority (to decide whether to review the video or not) was centered on the referee.
DB coach Kim Joo-seong, who bowed out at 90-102, asked the Korean Basketball League (KBL) immediately after the game to investigate whether there was a mistrial. After reviewing the entire game again, KBL admitted that there were about 10 misjudgments. This means that DB could have won if there was no misjudgment. Is it because we lost a game we could have won? DB, the first place team in the regular league, lost the fourth game on the 21st and was eliminated from the playoffs. Commentator Cho Hyeon-il criticized, “I hope a game like this never happens again.” As the ‘misjudgment debate’ spread, a ‘conspiracy theory’ even surfaced that “KBL is encouraging KCC Heo Woong (who is very popular) and Suwon KT Heo Hoon to meet in the championship game and have a sibling match.”
However, what is more problematic than the errors is that the referees who made 10 errors in one game did not receive any disciplinary action. A KBL official said, “There are no disciplinary plans. However, it is reflected in the referee evaluations that are done term by term.” In this way, it is a general trend in Korean professional sports to take lightly even responsibility for critical errors of judgment.
On the 6th, Incheon lost 0-1 to Jeju in the professional football league K. In the 27th minute of the first half, Incheon Mugosa managed to overcome the contention and hit the net with a header, but he got the match canceled for pushing the defender. So it was a scoreless loss. The referee committee of the Korea Football Association, which reviews the decisions of K-League referees, concluded that this scene was a misjudgment. In addition, referee Kim Hee-gon was suspended from the game. However, referee Kim appeared in the match between FC Seoul and Jeonbuk Hyundai on the 20th. They said it was a disciplinary action, but it only applied to one game.
Behind this unpleasant reality is the inconvenient truth of a referee manpower shortage. This means that if the number of referees who need expertise and experience is small, and harsh penalties for wrongdoing start to be imposed harshly, there will be a shortage of referees, making it difficult to get on with the game. However, sports whose results cannot be trusted are bound to be overlooked. If you ignore nausea, there is no reason to watch sports.
Moreover, as technology advances, the position of human mediators narrows. Football has surpassed the limits of the human eye with semi-automatic offside detection technology (SAOT), and tennis’ Hawk-eye system, which determines the line of the ball, has been commercialized in many sports. On the 19th, the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) fired umpire Lee Min-ho for ignoring the Automatic Setting System (ABS) and attempting to bury a wrong umpire. It is significant that he was called a ‘great referee’ while playing on the field for over 20 years. If there is no internal self-cleansing in the world of referees, the fate of future referees is as clear as fire.
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