Lee Kyung-hwan

Lee Kyung-hwan
Personnel
birthday	March 21, 1988
date of death	April 14, 2012
Place of death	Incheon ,  South Korea
size	174 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Myoungsin University
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2009-2010	Daejeon Citizen	32 (1)
2011	Suwon Bluewings	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Lee Kyung-hwan ( Korean 이경환 ; March 21, 1988 , † April 14, 2012 in Incheon ) was a South Korean football player .

Career

Lee played on the college team at Myoungsin University and joined the Daejeon Citizen in 2009 . In 2011 he was signed by the Suwon Bluewings . During his time with the Citizen he was involved in match fixing, which resulted in a major soccer betting scandal in the K League in 2011; as a result, he was suspended for life from the South Korean soccer leagues in August 2011.

On April 14, 2012, he committed suicide in Incheon at the age of 24 . This was the fourth suicide by a person involved in the betting scandal. The player Yoon Ki-won of Incheon United , Jung Jong-kwan of Seoul United and former coach Lee Su-chul of Sangmu Phoenix committed suicide in 2011.

Web links

• Lee Kyung-hwan on footballdatabase.eu (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Former K-League player Lee Kyung-Hwan commits suicide after match-fixing involvement . goal.com from April 16, 2012 (English).
2. ↑ Incheon United goalkeeper dies . In: The Korea Times, May 6, 2011.
3. ↑ Footballer kills himself over match fixing scandal . The Korea Times, May 30, 2011 (English).
4. ^ Korean military team's ex-coach found dead . Reuters of October 19, 2011 (English).

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Kyung-hwan is the first name.