South Korean baseball club Doosan Bears has asked the league office to suspend two minor league players, pitcher Jeong Hyun-wook and catcher Kwon Ki-young.
Jeong reportedly purchased Sports Toto lottery tickets and Kwon gambled on an illegal betting website.
Sports Toto is the only sports betting allowed in South Korea; however, Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) players are not allowed to buy sports betting tickets: players, coaches, and executives and employees of sports organisations should not purchase or mediate sports promotion voting rights.
Any other form of gambling is also prohibited, with KBO promising to cooperate with any investigation by the authorities.
The baseball club said: In the process of interviewing with Jeong Hyun…
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