Chairman Moon Jung-hong "Road FC Wonju Leaving" Declaration of Shock. What's going on with the MMA Mecca
Aug 31, 2024
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Road FC held a press conference for Goobne ROAD FC 069 at Wonju Gymnasium on the 30th. All the players participating in the Road FC Global Tournament gathered for interviews on their participation in the tournament.
Chairman Moon Jung-hong also attended the event, and was asked about the recent suspicions about the use of the Wonju MMA Sports Festival budget received from Wonju City and Gangwon Province and answered them. The content is that Road FC benefited from manipulating documents on the budget received from Wonju City and Gangwon Province.
Chairman Moon Jung-hong "The MMA Festival will be held in Wonju for four months from today to December 30th. During this period, the attention of martial arts fans from all over the world is focused on Wonju. As a native of Wonju, Gangwon-do, Korea, I spent billions of won at my own expense to show this game to my hometown's seniors and juniors once a year for more than a decade. But if I say I embezzled 800,000 won of hotel accommodation and keep saying this for a year, did I need to answer this?He explained why he had not made an official comment on the allegations.
And later on social media "I and Road FC will leave Wonju for the last time this year. Even if I leave when I leave, I have to finish well for the players this year! I trust that the investigative agency will investigate it well, and we will do our best to ensure that the MMA Festival is successfully completed by December 30th." and declared that he would leave Wonju City for the last time this year.
The question about Chairman Moon Jung-hong came from the players' press conference. After the press conference, Road FC Counsel Choi Young-ki (Seungjeon, Law Firm) and Kang Dae-gyu (Korea Central Chuncheon Office) sat down to announce Road FC's official position.
First of all, lawyer Kang Dae-gyu was criticized by many fans and the public for making derogatory remarks that `Mixed martial arts is not a sport' from around May and June 2023. Since then, it has been dormant for a while and has been defaming Road FC and MMA Sports by repeatedly saying false and false facts about them for a year. In response, despite the fact that the Road FC Korea Martial Arts Sports Association gave an explanation to Wonju City and government offices, submitted explanatory materials, and despite the fact that the allegations were sufficiently resolved, the fact that the city council member was constantly bothering the MMA Festival came to an unbearable point. I will tell you that I have filed a complaint against a city council member.'
Then "The accused crime is a crime of defamation and obstruction of business under the criminal law. If there was a legitimate criticism of the MMA festival, I would have accepted it, but false statements continued, and despite submitting and explaining explanatory and explanatory materials, I would like to inform you that if we do not file a complaint at this time, we will continue to interfere with the MMA festival until December 30th, so we have to file a complaint. In addition to the city councilor, there were also forces that were moving systematically, so we secured evidence and have already filed a complaint against a third party."
Adviser Choi Young-ki corrected what was known to be wrong. The Road FC Tournament was held as part of the Wonju MMA Sports Festival under the supervision of Wonju City and Gangwon Province. It is not true that Road FC continues to talk as if it holds a competition and Wonju City and Gangwon Province pay Road FC the hosting cost as a budget. Road FC also participated in the Wonju MMA Sports Festival as an executive group and is holding the Road FC competition during the MMA Festival with more than Wonju City at its own expense. Road FC, Wonju City, and Gangwon Province worked together to successfully implement MMA festivals and tournaments, ultimately promoting Wonju City and Gangwon Province to the world and making Wonju City a mecca for Asian MMA. So the MMA Festival is currently under a five-year plan, and this is the second year."
Lawyer Choi Young-ki then said "There were groups and personnel dissatisfied with continuing the MMA festival, and in this year's case, the MMA festival itself was hindered. It is not known at this time whether budget support will be provided in the future or whether the MMA festival will continue. Despite this year's budget being deliberated, Road FC will not use the budget. I will give up the part of the budget and not proceed further' has stated his intention several times. However, if a budget that has already been decided is not used in Gangwon-do or Wonju-si, even bigger problems arise. The MMA Festival is an event planned by Wonju City and Gangwon Province, and if it is canceled due to budget or political problems, it is also a big problem, so Road FC is difficult, but it has concluded that the MMA Festival and Global Tournament will be held until this year. Road FC will only participate in MMA festivals until this year and will not participate in MMA festivals organized by Wonju City and Gangwon Province from next year."
In addition, there are city councilors who talk as if Road FC is pursuing and taking private interests through this competition, and there are politicians who oppose it. If so, Road FC will neatly move away from the MMA Festival and lead Road FC's own events from next year. The legal process has begun, and conclusions about it will be made one day. If we come to a conclusion, we will clarify this. There was a person who had an interest in CEO Moon Jung-hong or Road FC for a long time in Wonju, including a journalist from a media company. Specifically, there are people who go to investors and say that reporters and city council members are all connected, and CEO Moon Jung-hong can be severely punished for committing a big crime legally. There are people who obtained evidence and sued, and were contacted and reported that they were related to him. So we're working on checking them, and as soon as it's confirmed, we're going to sue all the people involved."
Finally, lawyer Choi Young-ki said, `I would appreciate it if you could focus on the players so that it can be a tournament and a tournament by the end of this year"I wanted the players to get attention.
indyk@sportschosun.com
