SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's professional football league said Monday it would double the players' minimum wage to try to curtail corruption as the fallout from a major match-fixing scandal widens.
The K-League said it would raise the annual minimum
wage from 12 million won ($11,350) to 24 million won starting next year, and provide a pension.
From 2013, the 16-team league will split its competition in to first and second divisions under a promotion and relegation system widely used in international football competitions.
The league also said it would adopt the polygraph testing—or lie detector—system currently used in Singapore to prevent match-fixing.
It said teams involved in throwing matches would be demoted to a lower-tier league or lose points and the right to play in the AFC Champions League.
Prosecutors said last week that 57 people—46 current and former players and 11 criminal gang members and gambling brokers—have been charged with involvement in match-fixing.
They said many players had been forced repeatedly to throw games after the gangs threatened to report their involvement in the scam to authorities.
At least 15 matches involving six teams were found to have been rigged last year, while players received from three million won to 31 million won from brokers.
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