'Drunk driving → Disappointing' Sung Ho-young returns to the K League, 'suspended for 10 games' is effective

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• He returned after joining Gimhae for the first time in more than a year

Sung Ho-young (27), who was released by the club after being caught drunk driving while playing at Busan I'Park, will return to the K-League stage by joining the new team Gimhae FC.

The Gimhae team announced on the 20th that it has recruited Sung Ho-young, who played for Gyeongju Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power. Gyeongju KHNP is a member of the K3 League, a semi-professional league organized by the Korea Football Association.

As a result, Sung Ho-young will return to the K-League of Professional Football after his contract with Busan was terminated in September 2024.

However, the disciplinary action received by the then-Pro Football Federation reward and punishment committee after drunk driving is still valid, so Sung Ho-young cannot play for 10 games after the opening of the K League 2 this season.

According to the federation, Sung Ho-young was caught by police on September 10, 2024, after calling a chauffeur after drinking in downtown Busan, and colliding with a property while operating a parked vehicle.

The Busan club immediately terminated the contract with Sung Ho-young the next day, and the federation first suspended his activities. The suspension of activities is a measure to temporarily suspend K-League-related activities for 60 days if it is difficult to deliberate on the reward and punishment committee for misconduct that causes social controversy or undermines the value of the K-League within a short period of time.

After that, the federation held a reward and punishment committee before canceling Sung Ho-young's registration as a league player and decided to suspend 10 K-League games and punish him with 4 million won in sanctions. After that, Sung Ho-young's K-League player registration was canceled.

Since the suspension is only applied when he is a registered player in the K-League, Sung Ho-young's suspension of 10 games has been suspended for a while, but if he becomes a K-League registered player again through joining Gimhae, the disciplinary action will be applied again. As a result, Sung Ho-young will be able to play from the 11th round of the K League 2 in May, after the suspension of 10 games is over.

Sung Ho-young, a former member of the U-20 national team, joined Busan in 2020 after dropping out of Yeungnam University. He played only in Busan until the 2024 season and played in 68 K League 2 games (including playoffs) and scored five goals.

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