Actor Han Jung-su. [Herald POP (now Herald Muse) provided]
Actor Han Jung-su. [Herald POP (now Herald Muse) provided]

Actor Han Jung-su, who previously targeted former national team head coach Hong Myung-bo, has now turned his fire on the Korea Football Association amid allegations that it provided sexual entertainment to foreign officials.

Han took to his social media account Friday to express his outrage at the KFA.

According to a 2016 Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism audit made public recently, the KFA provided sexual entertainment to more than 10 foreign referees and match officials across seven matches held in South Korea, including World Cup and Olympic qualifying games and friendly matches.

Han responded with a sharp rebuke. "These rotten roots with no end in sight — please dismantle everything and start over," he wrote. "This is beyond fixing. The KFA's rotten roots. Complete dissolution. Reconstruction."

He added: "The KFA turned out to be a far more corrupt organization than I had imagined. Sexual entertainment? I'm truly ashamed. Dismantle everything, down to the regional associations! I will fight to the end."

Han had earlier lashed out at former head coach Hong Myung-bo, who resigned after the national team was eliminated in the World Cup group stage. "If you're a person of any conscience at all, you should honor the bare minimum," Han said. "You said you were doing this as a service — if you have even a shred of conscience, give back your salary."

Han also called for a sweeping overhaul of the association's leadership. "The KFA must be completely dissolved and rebuilt from scratch," he said. "All executives should be fired and the technical committee disbanded." He added that "Korean football will only change if everything is completely overhauled from the very beginning."


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