Jeong Jae-wan (born 1 September 1996) is a Korean

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player for

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and the Korean national team. He represented Korea at the

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Personal life

At the age of 24, Jeong joined the Korean Army in May. He ruptured his left Achilles tendon and

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while exercising with his colleague three weeks after joining the army. He was taken to an outside hospital for surgery immediately. The hospital explained that he needed hospitalization for two months, but Jeong returned to his unit in three weeks. This is because the military authorities ordered him to return due to vacation regulations. It was said that if Jeong was treated using his vacation, there would be no vacation that he could use for the rest of his service. Jeong returned to the training center but did not receive proper medical assistance. Patients who underwent surgery were reportedly quarantined without receiving essential disinfectants and antibiotics. This is because

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confirmed the case of COVID-19 infection. Jeong asked the training center to allow outside treatment, but it was not accepted. Jeong, who was left neglected for about 10 days at the training center, recently went to an outside hospital after being deployed to

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. The surgical site had developed to a serious level of skin necrosis. The medical team was diagnosed with him that further playing could be difficult. The

claimed that they did not force Jeong to return to the training center, but only explained the rules of vacation. In addition, he paid saline water twice at Jeong's request. However, it was not clear whether the training center lacked disinfectants.

References

1996 births Living people South Korean male handball players Handball players at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Asian Games medalists in handball Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games {{Korea-bio-stub