The National Human Rights Commission of South Korea has gotten involved in the ongoing scandal over women's and girl's sports coaches sexually assaulting their athletes.
The National Human Rights Commission (국가인권위원회) and the Korea Sports Council (대한체육회) have joined hands to confront the scandal over sexual assault and violence in the sports world. The two organizations announced on the 14th at the Oympic Parktel in Songpa-gu, Seoul, that they will work together to improve human rights in the sports world. The NHRC said, "a recent television broadcast revealed that a great number of athletes have been exposed physical and mentally violence and though citizens are shocked and angry, the investigsations, punishments, and reforms carried out so far have been inadequate." The agreement specifies that violence and sexual violence will be investigated, punishment for offenders will be pursued, and that there will be human rights education for coaches of student athletes. The press conference was attended by marathon gold medalist Hwang Yeong-jo, former volleyball player Jang Yun-chang, and Taekwondo gold medalist Jeong Jae-eun, all of whom promised to work to protect the rights of their successors. The Commission announced that several current high-ranking coaches have sexually assaulted or molested their athletes including a girls' middle school basketball coach, who did so in April of 2007 and was not punished but simply transferred to another school; a girls' swimming coach at an elementary school in Chungcheongnam-do in 2004; a girls' high school school basketball coach in 2000 who is now a women's basketball coach; and a women's volleyball head coach in 1996.
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