Korea Expressway Corporation has designated setter Lee Go-eun (28) as a compensation player for Park Jeong-ah, who transferred as a free agent to Pepper Savings Bank.
The Korea Expressway Corporation announced on the 26th that “Lee Go-eun was nominated as the free agent compensation player for Park Jung-ah.”
Park Jung-ah, who led먹튀검증 the road construction championship championship in 2022-23, signed a 3-year FA contract with Pepper Savings Bank in the best treatment of the V-League women’s division with an annual total of 775 million won (annual salary of 475 million won, incentive of 300 million won). The Korea Expressway Corporation decided to choose a 200% annual salary (860 million won) and one player compensation instead of Park Jung-ah’s 300% annual salary in the previous season.
Lee Go-eun returned to Gimcheon a year after leaving the road construction.
In the 2013-14 season rookie draft, Lee Go-eun was nominated 3rd overall in the 1st round and joined the Korea Expressway Corporation. Lee Go-eun, who passed through IBK Industrial Bank of Korea and GS Caltex through a trade, returned to her home team after 4 years through a trade again in May 2020. Then, after the end of the 2021-22 season, he obtained the second FA qualification and signed a contract with the’youngest club’ Pepper Savings Bank for a total of 990 million won for 3 years. In the 2022-23 V-League All-Star Game online fan voting, Lee Go-eun also took first place in the M-Star women’s setter category.
Lee Go-eun is the third time to wear only the road construction uniform with this nomination as a compensation player.
The Korea Expressway Corporation team said, “We plan to minimize the power leak due to the departure of the main player through the nomination of Lee Go-eun, who played 122 sets in 33 matches in the previous season and finished 4th in the set.”
The Korea Expressway Corporation missed Park Jeong-ah and Jeong Dae-young (GS Caltex) in the FA contract negotiations, and caught Bae Yuna, Moon Jeong-won, and Jeon Sae-yan.
Following the 2021-22 season, Lee Go-eun will once again compete with Lee Yoon-jung.