As Korea suffers in the heat of a relentless summer, the Korea Football Association (KFA) is in danger of undergoing a total meltdown with consequences that are impossible to foresee. Just when you think the football situation in the country could not get any worse, it does. If only events on the field were able to make these many headlines, then we would all be in a better position. For those who have been lying in a dark air-conditioned room for the last few weeks, a quick recap: Korea's showing at the 2026 FIFA World Cup ended in disaster, coach Hong Myung-bo and KFA chief Chung Mong-gyu stepped down amid huge public anger and were then grilled at a parliamentary hearing in July. That would be more than enough drama in most countries but then in August, the police raided KFA offices and a leaked 2016 government audit revealed something else. It turns out that in 2011 and 2012, officials at the KFA had used corporate credit cards to provide "sexual entertainment" to foreign referees who had come to the country to oversee the qualification games for the 2012 London Olympics and the 20