Sports Ethics Center publishes a collection of cases of human rights violations and corruption in sports '2025 Sports, Reclaiming Trust' on the 5th anniversary of its establishment

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On the 8th, the Sports Ethics Center (Chairman Park Ji-young) under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism published a casebook of sports human rights violations and corruption in "2025 Sports, Reclaiming Trust."

This casebook is composed of representative cases by analyzing human rights violations and corruption cases at sports sites that have been investigated and processed for five years since the launch of the Sports Ethics Center in 2020.

The center has been striving to protect athletes in the blind spot and represent the voices of the field through strict investigations into human rights violations and corruption cases in the sports community.

However, various irrationalities such as violence (including verbal violence), sexual violence (sexual harassment), harassment, privatization of organizations, and abuse of authority have been repeated, and concerns have been raised that this could lead to a negative perception of athletes and a decline in public trust in the sports world as a whole.

The center explained about the casebook, "By presenting specific cases that the center actually investigated and handled, it was produced with the aim of raising social awareness of human rights violations and corruption in sports and preventing the recurrence of similar cases."

"In particular, we have improved the effectiveness by organizing response methods and reporting procedures together so that members of the sports field, such as athletes, leaders, parents, and sports organizations, can refer to the incident," he added.

Park Ji-young, chairman of the Sports Ethics Center, said in a publication, "Securing fairness in sports and protecting the human rights of athletes to establish the right sense of sports ethics are tasks of the times that cannot be delayed any longer. The events in this casebook are records that look back on the dark side of the sports world, and are teachers and stepping stones for us to move toward a more mature sports culture."

"The Sports Ethics Center will continue to play a responsible role in creating a sports culture where all athletes are respected in a safe environment and fair competition takes root," he stressed.

Meanwhile, this casebook will not only be used as a human rights education material for athletes, but will also be widely used as basic data for establishing sports human rights protection policies and improving systems.

The Sports Ethics Center said, "With the publication of the casebook, we plan to further strengthen the preventive-oriented human rights protection system, establish a sustainable sports human rights protection system and restore sports trust through customized prevention policies and cooperation with related organizations reflecting sports and field characteristics."

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