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(Society)Kim Ye-ji’s shooting ‘real reason’ for abruptly ending her career has been revealed.

(Society)Kim Ye-ji’s shooting ‘real reason’ for abruptly ending her career has been revealed.

Kim Ye-ji, 32, a silver medalist in shooting at the 2024 Paris Olympics, recently ended her contract with her team early and decided to put her career on hold for the time being.

It is known that not only parenthood, but also the injuries caused by malicious comments against him played a significant role in this decision.

Kim Ye-ji announced through her office on the 6th the termination of the contract with Imsil-gun Office in Jeollabuk-do. The contract period ran until December this year, but the contract was terminated early instead of being extended.

Kim Ye-ji said through her agency, “I will put my journey as an Olympic medalist on hold for a while, spend time with my child for the time being, and stick to the role of my mother.” “I hope you view this break as a process to further develop into a shooter,” he said. “The timing of my return has not yet been determined, but I will do my best to return as soon as possible.”

However, contrary to his statement that he would focus on raising children, it was reported that malicious comments made against him were the cause of the decision to put his shooting career on hold for the time being.

After the Paris Olympics, he appeared in images and advertisements with the idea of ​​promoting shooting, an unpopular sport, and was actively involved in external activities, as criticism quickly increased.

The agency told No Cut News: “It is known that Kim Ye-ji has decided to put her career on hold for a while due to parenthood, but it is not necessarily because of that,” adding: “The player struggled a lot with malicious comments .”

The content of the malicious comments that Kim Ye-ji struggled with are mainly mocking comments about foreign activities after the Paris Olympics.

Particularly when he was first selected to Korea as Tesla Korea’s ambassador, criticisms continued such as “Row when the water comes in,” “Stay true to your main job,” and “A silver medalist who is better than a gold medalist.”

An agency official said, “Kim Ye-ji is very soft despite how she looks,” adding, “I think she suffered a lot of pain because people saw her foreign activities in a bad way, because she thought it would be better to know more. about shooting, which is an unpopular sport.”

Reporter Park Sun-young from Digital News Team

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