"Never used a business seat."The Badminton Association explained to the distorted 'Public Opinion Criticism'
Aug 09, 2024
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The association issued a press release on the 9th "Recently, some media outlets have reported incorrect information regarding the use of aircraft when employees of the association travel abroad."," he said, requesting correction along with relevant supporting data.
The association said, "It is true that all vice-chairman or higher at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palambang were criticized by the media for using business seats." "However, this is a case in which some executives used business seats when dispatching international competitions in 2018, during the previous executive period, and most of them used economy seats during overseas business trips from 2021 when the current executive term began to the Paris Olympics.", he explained.
In addition, the association emphasized that `Currently, the association's travel expenses regulations stipulate that the chairman and vice-chairman can use business seats, but since 2021, when the current executive term begins, the budget saved by using general seats by executives is additionally used for training the team.'
In fact, as a result of checking the status of flight ticket use of executives and employees dispatched to various international competitions and conferences from November 2021 provided by the association, it was found that general seats were used when accompanying the team, except for the provision of tickets to international organizations (BWF, etc.).
In particular, in the case of the Paris Olympics, some leaders and athletes among the athletes and association's executives have upgraded to the prestigious seats through personal mileage or support from their teams, but all others have used regular seats.
Among them, players from Samsung Life, including Ahn Se-young and Seo Seung-jae, used prestige seats for both leaving and entering the country with support from their teams.
In the meantime, when some media summoned a broadcaster's report in 2018 and introduced the wrong cases of the association in the past, most netizens mistaken the current executive as such. However, this has nothing to do with the current executive branch, which was launched in 2021, and is also the reason the association actively explained.
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