The cause of the absurd disqualification at the judo venue at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games was a fatal information transmission error and complacent response by the team leadership, and allegations have been raised that the leadership tried to downplay or cover up the incident, fueling the controversy. According to Jung Soo-jin (Yongin University), the women's 48kg judo national team member, she passed the official weigh-in the day before and maintained her weight at 50.4kg (5% of the weight class) by the morning of the competition . She had thoroughly set the limit. The problem occurred immediately after the random weigh-in draw results came out that morning. "After the coach and coach checked the results, they told me, 'Only one male athlete on the same team was caught, so you are not eligible.'" ,,, "I checked again, but they said I wasn't eligible. I was told to eat slowly and recover after losing a lot of weight, so I ate instead." To recover quickly, she consumed 300g of porridge, 200g of bananas, and 600g of ion drinks to warm up, but tragedy struck just 15 minutes before the end of the weigh-in, only to be informed late that she was a random weigh-in. Jung Soo-jin said, "From that moment, I vomited everything I ate and even cut my hair , and kept running and did my best to keep my weight right until the very end, but it still weighed over 100g," and in the end, Jung Soo-jin was disqualified before even stepping on the mat in the round of 16. The bigger problem was the coaching staff's post-incident response, Jung Soo-jin said, "After the incident, the coaches only said they would take responsibility after returning to Korea and busied themselves coaching other athletes, and I was showered with countless criticisms," ,,, "On the morning I returned to Korea, the coach told me, 'You have to finish like this to quietly finish it,'" revealing that the athlete criticized for his own mismanagement was actually a victim of the coaches' absurd mistakes and irresponsibility. As the situation spiraled out of control, the Korea Judo Association issued an official statement on the 5th, Considering that the national team is currently out for the World Championships, he promised to begin a thorough investigation into Jung Soo-jin and related coaches upon their return on the 13th.
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