Southerly Korea's curling 'Garlic Girls' say they were abused

The darlings of South Korea's Winter season Olympics are lower back in the headers seven months after their own stimulating run to a being different silver medal in Pyeongchang.

South Korea's sports ministry on Wednesday announced a new joint investigation with typically the countrywide Olympic committee into accusations by the alleged Garlic Women of abuse.
Sweden clothes Korea's 'Garlic Girls' regarding curling yellow metal
The five-member women's straightening team that will shot to help international well known in January and started unprecedented domestic attention for their sport sent a letter to the particular Korean Sport and Olympic Committee last week to help outline their accusations.

Often the women, from a new remote province famous for the garlic herb, captured hearts throughout a region that almost never knew straightening just before together with became sought-after models for commercials and prompted plenty of online memes and even catch-phrases.

The attention was so great during the games that their coach took away their cell phones to shield the curlers from virtually any pressure. The Garlic Girls ultimately misplaced to Sweden in the money steel match.

'Human rights staying violated'
In the notification, Kim Eun-jung, Kim Seon-yeong, Kim Yeong-ae, Kim Cho-hee and Kim Yeong-mi charged former Korean Curling Federation (KCF) vice-president Kim Kyong-doo of mental abuse and team coaches of supplying unreasonable orders and disclosing their private lives to help excessive control.

"The individuals rights of the sportsmen are increasingly being violated, " the sportsmen, the first Cookware team for you to win a good curling sterling silver, wrote. "We've achieved an area where this has become not bearable. inch


The curlers as well correspondent coaches of holding back again prize money and trying to help sideline captain The reality star Eun-jung after learning associated with the plans to start a family group.

The coaches "tried to help rule Kim Eun-jung off of the team after she did marry in July, " the letter said. "They split up the skip and the team captain's role to help minimize .k Eun-jung's position on the staff. Many people also tried not in order to include things like Kim Eun-jung inside crew training. "

The coaching staff have declined typically the allegations.

The exploration will begin next 7 days in addition to will include things like officials coming from the ministry, typically the country specific Olympic committee as well as the team's home land regarding N . 컬링 .