The professional volleyball 2023-2024 V-League awards ceremony will be held from 4 p.m. on the 8th.
This is the first time that "Volleyball Empress" Kim Yeon-kyung 36, Heungkuk Life Insurance will make an official appearance after the 2023-2024 season championship match.
Kim Yeon-koung has entered the dossier over whether to retire or not.
Just as he expressed his intention to extend his career at the awards ceremony last year, there is a possibility to talk about what conclusions he has reached this year.
Heungkuk Life Insurance won the first and second sets against Hyundai Engineering & Construction in the first round of the 2023-2024 championship, but lost 2-3 25-18, 25-14, 20-25, 14-16 by dropping three to five sets.
This was the third time that the set score of 2-0 ended 2-3 in the women's championship match, following Game 3 of the 2010-2011 season and Game 3 of the 2012-2013 season.
In the 2010-2011 season, when Hyundai Engineering & Construction won, the opposing team against the championship was Heungkuk Life as in this season, and the team that suffered a 2-3 25-21, 25-12, 18-25, 24-26, 11-15 upset loss was Heungkuk Life.
IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, which had won two consecutive games in the 2012-2013 season, took two sets from GS Caltex first, but had to play until the fourth game due to a 2-3 25-21, 25-16, 16-25, 24-26, 7-15 loss.
Did this defeat raise Kim Yeon-koung's 'anger gauge'?
In the second round, Kim Yeon-koung attempted 47 attacks, the most in the team, leaving an efficiency of 0.553.
In the history of the women's championship, only GS Caltex Betti 37, Dominican Republic, 0.656 is the first player in the 2008-2009 season.
At that time, Bettie was 14 years younger than Kim Yeon-koung, and he had 32 attacks, 15 times fewer.
Also, Betti, an Offer Spiker Light, never received an opponent's serve.
Outside heater left Kim Yeon-koung received her opponent's serve 22 times tied for second place in the team, leaving 40.9% of the receiving efficiency.
For your information, the receiving efficiency of Heungkuk Life's Libero defensive player Kim Hae-ran 40 in this game was 41.2%.
But the result was a 2-3 25-23, 21-25, 25-21, 17-25, 13-15 defeat again.
Heungkuk Life lost 2-3 25-22, 17-25, 25-23, 23-25, 7-15 again in the third round, giving up the trophy to Hyundai Engineering & Construction.
In the meantime, Heungkuk Life became the first team in professional volleyball history to finish second after winning the first set throughout the championship.
Heungkuk Life Insurance is also the first to end all of the 1st and 3rd games with a full set defeat in the women's championship, which was held in a three-win game of five games.
Kim Yeon-koung finished three championship matches this season with 0.365 attack efficiency.
This is the 9th all-time record among players responsible for more than 25% of the team's total attack attempts during the championship.
In terms of domestic players alone, there have only been four times when the attack efficiency was higher than this in the championship match, and two of them are "Kim Yeon-koung of the past."
And of course, none of these guys have ever taken off their jerseys the very next season that left this record.
If Kim Yeon-koung really chooses to retire, it will be the most wasteful retirement case in the history of professional volleyball. 스포츠토토
Of course, no matter what you choose, fans will support Kim Yeon-koung's choice.