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Costa, Jerry da (2018)

The Normalization of Match-fixing in South-Korean Professional Football

Bachelor thesis | Koreastudies (BA)

This thesis aims to suggest that the Korean K-league football match-fixing scandal in 2011 occurred because of an organizational structure that normalized corrupt practices. The second aim is to determine if the measures taken by the Korean governing institutes to ban match-fixing have the desired effect. I will argue that match-fixing in the K-League was organized in a form in which a key player makes a corruption network with other players on behalf of a corrupt broker. Furthermore I argue that the governing institutes should be focusing on senior players when making their regulations to ban match-fixing, as they are the most prominent in this match-fixing case.

South-Korea

football

match-fixing

normalization

K-league

Author

Costa, Jerry da

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

BA Koreastudies

Supervisors

Green, Christopher

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en