Jeonbuk's Hong Jeong-ho is taken away by ambulance due to injury during the professional soccer Hana One Q K League 1 2023 match between Ulsan Hyundai and Jeonbuk Hyundai at Munsu Football Stadium in Ulsan, South Korea, on Wednesday.

A Jeonbuk Hyundai supporter who shouted "murderer" at a stretcher group of middle school players has sparked controversy. The harsh words were shouted through a loudspeaker over the stretcher group's slow behavior in an emergency situation. In response, not only Ulsan Hyundai, but also some Jeonbuk fans have been criticized.

Here's the situation. On March 3, Ulsan and Jeonbuk played their final round of the season, the Hyundai Derby, at Munsu Soccer Stadium in Ulsan. In the 41st minute of the first half, Hong Jeong-ho (Jeonbuk) collided with Cho Hyun-woo (Ulsan) in a contested aerial ball and went down. Hong was knocked unconscious with concussion symptoms, and Jeonbuk and Ulsan players and nearby fans rushed to call the medical team.

The four-stretcher group, consisting of players from Ulsan's U-15 team, Hyundai Heavy Industries, did not move quickly enough. To Jeonbuk fans, the stretcher group was moving slowly on purpose.

During this process, a spectator in the Jeonbuk supporters' section grabbed a megaphone and shouted, "You're murderers, you're murderers". The stadium was quiet after Hong Jeong-ho's collapse, so the spectator's voice rang out even louder when he called the middle school students "murderers" twice.

However, according to Ulsan, the stretcher team should not have been called in first. When a player is unconscious, the stretcher is not used, but the medical team quickly checks the player and decides whether to send an ambulance. This is because transporting an unconscious player with a head injury on a stretcher could cause more problems. 토토

In fact, even after Hong Jung-ho collapsed, the medical team rushed to the scene and called an ambulance. An official from Ulsan said, "The stretcher group shouldn't have gone in at that time, but they were preparing for just in case. We weren't intentionally trying to get in late or mocking our opponents."

The urgency of the situation could have been misunderstood by Jeonbuk fans. It has also been pointed out that the Ulsan club's response was not fast enough, as the location of the ambulance was different from usual, and the ambulance did not arrive at the scene quickly enough.

However, the behavior of the Jeonbuk supporter who shouted "murderer" at the junior high school students was highly inappropriate regardless of the preceding circumstances, and there are criticisms from both inside and outside the soccer world. There are also some criticisms from within Jeonbuk's own fan base, as the megaphone is seen as representative of the supporters. While another club official criticized Ulsan for not responding more quickly to the situation, he also pointed out that the Jeonbuk fan's use of a megaphone to refer to him as a murderer was highly inappropriate. The official said, "It's true that Ulsan's response to the situation was not quick enough. It was a potentially critical situation, so they should have been prepared to respond more quickly. Jeonbuk fans could have been even more frustrated."

However, he added: "There is no way to rationalize the behavior of shouting "murderer" at young students in front of a large crowd and through a megaphone. It's not as if he didn't know that the Volvo and stretcher bearer roles are usually played by young youth team players. I think it's a serious issue that could leave them traumatized for life."