South Korean Footballers examines by ‘Lie-detector tests’

South Korea's football league is launching or trial battle bribery in the sport.

A match-fixing scandal amid the country's top players was exposed just, and has carry on to extend through the industry.

Players from six teams are now under prosecution.

The K-League is taking a carrot-and-stick approach to attempting this largest scandal, introducing new sanctions but also moving up the players' minimum salary.

All players alleged of unlawful activity will now have to take a polygraph - or lie-detector - examination.

There will also be sanctions for clubs found blameworthy of match-fixing and a series of seminars on averting corruption. It will obligatory to attend the seminars and any player who overlooks them will be suspended.

But there is a sweetener too: the K-League said it would double the yearly minimum salary for players, actually in an effort to remove persuasion.

The minimum salary is presently about $11,000 less than half the national average income.

Up till now 46 players and 11 gambling brokers have been alleged in the match-fixing scandal.

Investigators accuse the players took money in return for making intentional mistakes in at least 15 matches previous year.

Ten players have hitherto been given lifetime bans.