The Korean Basketball League announced on Monday its measures against match-fixing and illegal sports betting, which resurfaced after Anyang KGC head coach Chun Chang-jin was "investigated for allegedly betting against his own team," according to Nam Hyun-woo of the KOREA TIMES. However, league organizers also "seemed to bet against themselves by announcing measures whose effectiveness is questioned in tackling the match-fixing practice that has haunted the KBL for a long time." KBL Commissioner Kim Young-ki "apologized for the KBL being embroiled in another match-fixing and illegal sports scandal" after the case of former Wonju Dongbu head coach Kang Dong-hee in '13. However, questions "linger over the timing of KBL's announcement." Kim cited three KBL rules that are relevant to Chun's case -- the KBL can "restrict a coach's job through due process when his eligibility is severely compromised, if he fails to use the best players in a game, and fails to do his best for a game." Kim said that the KBL is going to "apply the second rule more strictly to all KBL teams in a bid to prevent match-fixing scandals," but it drew questions of how the league organizers can "apply such abstract standards as 'best players,' as well as concerns over the KBL's excessive intervention in a coach's team management" (KOREA TIMES, 6/29).
