Amid continuous controversies over referee decisions in professional K League football, the Korea Football Association (KFA) has decided to actively incorporate diverse perspectives from non-referee backgrounds into its decision evaluations.

The KFA announced on the 25th that it is reorganizing the composition of the Professional Referee Evaluation Committee, which is responsible for analyzing and evaluating the match operations of K League referees, and expanding the proportion of members with non-referee backgrounds to over 40% for the first time.

This initiative is part of fulfilling the referee policy development tasks announced last February.

The evaluation committee is an independent evaluation body that multi-dimensionally reviews major referee decisions from K League matches every week to make final determinations on correct or incorrect calls, while finalizing ratings that serve as the criteria for referee promotions and demotions each year.

The reorganized committee will consist of a total of seven members: four from the KFA and three from the K League.

The four KFA members will consist of officiating experts, such as full-time referee instructors and analysts who constantly analyze K League match decisions, as before. Meanwhile, the three members from the K League will include non-referee figures such as Technical Committee Chairman Kim Ho-young.

This means non-referee members account for approximately 42.9% of the total.

The KFA stated its policy to actively reflect the diverse perspectives of non-referee committee members with rich field experience—such as coaches and match commissioners—to enhance the fairness and credibility of referee evaluations, and to continuously foster a officiating environment that both the field and fans can accept.

Additionally, the KFA plans to conduct "decision briefings" outlining the committee's review results regarding major officiating scenes that garnered intense attention during K League matches.

The decision briefings will include the results of whether the scenes were judged as correct or incorrect, along with the grounds under the laws of the game and the technical judgment process that led to those conclusions.

Earlier, at a referee development policy presentation held in February this year, the KFA promised to implement "Monday briefings" to promptly explain major issues related to referee decisions, but has only distributed materials three times to date.