"A fat girl worse than a tire." What do you think about the fans... Lotte Choi Choong-yeon controversy → He headed to the second division

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Choi Choong-yeon (29, Lotte Giants) is embroiled in a controversy over his rude talk. Criticism is mounting as he was caught drunk driving and caused a stir once in the past.

On the 10th, a video of Choi Choong-yeon talking freely to a female fan spread through online communities and social networking services (SNS).

In the video, Choi Choong-yeon was spending time with Yoon Sung-bin, a member of the same team, at a bar in downtown Busan. A female fan asked Choi Choong-yeon, who was smoking in front of him, for fan service, but she made an insulting remark, "She is worse than a Korean tire."

Controversy is spreading as the victim, who filmed it herself, posted the video on the online community. Choi Choong-yeon is said to have contacted the victim and apologized, but the controversy has not subsided easily.

Last year, the KBO League opened the era of 12 million spectators, and this season, it is attracting spectators to the scene with a more frightening momentum. At a time when clubs and players are focused on fan-friendly marketing and fan service, such light words and actions that completely violate "Fan First" are raising criticism.

This is because, regardless of whether or not they apologize, they are words and actions that show how they usually think of their fans.

Some Lotte fans released a statement under the name of "Busan Seagull." "Fans are not an ornament that only exists when you have good grades. Even in the time of consecutive losses and in the season of frustration, it is the fans who do not abandon the team and remain," he stressed.

"The moment we disparaged and ridiculed such fans behind their backs, we have already destroyed our qualifications to receive fan support," he said, adding, "Lotte should use this issue as an opportunity to establish team discipline and club culture as a whole." We need to come up with practical measures to restore the shaken trust," he urged.

Choi Choong-yeon has been talked about in the past. Choi Choong-yeon, who joined the Samsung Lions as the first designation in 2016, was caught in a drunk driving crackdown while driving in downtown Daegu in 2020 and was suspended by KBO and clubs for a total of 150 games.

It was transferred to Lotte through the second draft in November last year, but Lotte is currently unable to play after four players were disciplined for visiting illegal entertainment businesses during the spring camp. The fact that he once again raised controversy over his unawares behavior in this situation is also further angering fans.

Choi Choong-yeon took the mound only once this season and allowed three hits, one walk, and two runs in one inning, and his arrest did not come up, and he was eventually removed from the first-team entry along with Yoon Sung-bin, Han Hyun-hee, Kim Tae-kyun and Park Rogan.

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