'Sports to the National Assembly' Lee Ki-heung X Jung Mong-gyu X Hong Myung-bo 25 all-time witnesses, focusing attention on pending questions by the stylistic committee on the 24th
Sep 23, 2024
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Twenty-five athletes, including Lee Ki-heung, president of the Korea Sports Council, Chung Mong-kyu, president of the Korea Football Association, Hong Myung-bo, coach of the A national team, and Park Joo-ho, a former member of the National Assembly's power reinforcement committee, will appear as witnesses at the National Assembly. The Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee plans to focus on the controversy surrounding the Korea Badminton Association and the Korea Sports Association through questioning on the 24th.
Chairman Jeon Jae-soo, Kim Oh-kyung (Gansa), Kang Yoo-jung (proportional), Kim Yoon-deok, Min Hyung-bae, Park Soo-hyun, Yang Moon-seok, Lee Ki-heon, and Jo Gye-won (Democratic Party of Korea), Park Jung-ha (Gansa), Kim Seung-soo, Bae Hyun-jin, Shin Dong-wook, Jeong Yeon-wook, and Jin Jong-oh (proportional), and Kim Jae-won of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party (proportional). At the plenary session on the 5th, the ruling and opposition parties agreed on the adoption of witnesses related to pending issues of the Korea Football Association, the Korea Sports Council, and the Korea Badminton Association. In all three organizations, there are a total of 25 witnesses and a total of 8 witnesses.
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Questions were originally scheduled to be asked about the Korea Football Association and the Korea Badminton Association, which are being audited, but the Korean Sports Council was also called at the request of the ruling party. In connection with the overall operation of the Korea Sports Association, the Korea Football Association, and the Badminton Association, Lee Ki-heung, Secretary-General Yoon Sung-wook, Deputy Secretary-General Kim Jong-soo, and Chung Dong-guk, Vice President of Jincheon Training Center, were adopted as witnesses. Jang Jae-geun, head of Jincheon Training Center (in connection with the association's violation of the Korea Sports Council regulations), Kim Byung-chul, chairman of the Korea Sports Fair Committee (in connection with the operation of the Korea Sports Council and the Korea Sports Fair Committee), Jeong Kang-sun, head of the Paris Olympic Team (in connection with the operation of the Paris Olympic team), and Kim Seung-gon, special advisor to the Korea Sports Council (in connection with the operation of the Korea Sports Council). Kim Ki-han, a physical education professor at Seoul National University, was adopted as a reference.
Amid high-intensity inquiries from ruling party lawmakers toward the Korea Sports Council, which has been controversial at the Paris Olympics and the disbandment ceremony, a proxy war between the ruling and opposition parties and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is expected. As the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Sports Council filed for a public interest audit of the Board of Audit and Inspection amid extreme confrontation, the ruling party lawmakers such as Park Jung-ha, Kim Seung-soo and Shin Dong-wook requested the Korea Sports and Tourism Commission for an audit, ▶ The exclusive right to supply sponsors that may violate the National Contract Act, which the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism used as the basis for requesting ▶ The establishment of a special advisor and commissioned advisory committee for a specific company ▶ The reckless use of its own budget ▶ The suspicion of 'cheering on inconvenience' ▶ Questions are expected about how the committee members will operate. As Culture Minister Yoo In-chon and Vice Minister Jang Mi-ran also attend as witnesses, some opposition lawmakers plan to criticize the government's policy. ▶ Problems of transferring the living sports budget to local governments contrary to the purpose of the National Sports Promotion Act presented by the Korea Sports Association as the basis for the audit request ▶ Questions about excessive intervention and delay in approval are expected to arise in the process of executing the project budget confirmed by the National Assembly.
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In the case of the Korea Football Association, five people, including Chairman Chung Mong-kyu, technical director Lee Im-saeng, former chairman of the Korea Power Reinforcement Committee, Park Joo-ho, former power reinforcement committee member, and Hong Myung-bo, director of the Sports Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, who oversaw the audit of the Korea Football Association, will attend as witnesses. After Klinsmann's resignation, Kim Dae-up, head of the technical division (overseas coach interview process), Lee Mi-yeon, a member of the power reinforcement committee (internal coach recommendation process, coach recommendation process after director Lee Im-saeng was delegated authority), Park Moon-sung, sports commentator, and Kim Hyun-soo, executive member of the Sports Citizens' Solidarity (the operation of the Korea Football Association and the appointment of the national soccer team coach), were adopted.
As many of the members of the Munyeok Committee have the full text of the minutes of the six-month, 1st to 11th meetings that continued intense discussions for the appointment of the coach of the Korea Football Association's Power Reinforcement Committee (hereinafter referred to as Jeon Kang-woo), the members of the committee decided on the direction of Hong Myung-bo, not a foreign coach, from the beginning and conducted the committeeIt seems that some fans' misunderstandings about ' will be resolved. However, there will be a lot of sharp questions about the resignation process of former chairman of the Korea Electric Power Reinforcement Committee, the appointment of director Lee Im-saeng as acting chairman, and the recommendation process of Jeon Kang's supervisory candidate. Suspicions of negative bank accounts of 60 billion won that the association opened without the approval of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in the process of building the Cheonan Football Center and Chairman Chung Mong-kyu's bid for a fourth consecutive term are also hot issues. Members of both ruling and opposition parties, including Kim Seung-soo, Jin Jong-oh (power of the people), Kang Yoo-jung, and Min Hyung-bae (Democratic Party), are denouncing the poor submission of data by the Korea Football Association, signaling intense questions.
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In the case of the Badminton Korea Association, which has been embroiled in the so-called 「Payback" controversy, embezzlement and breach of trust since Ahn Se-young, a gold medalist at the Paris Olympics, Kim Jong-woong (operating the association, attracting sponsorship products, attracting sponsors), Chairman Kim Taek-gyu (operating the association, selecting national teams, selecting sponsorship products, player management), Vice Chairman Kim Joong-soo (managing national teams, player management), Medical Committee Chairman Jeon Myung-sup (managing athletes' injuries, dental treatment of athletes), Secretary-General Han Woo-gu (operating the association, handling sponsorship products, handling, Nine people were selected as witnesses, including Lee Sang-soon, chairman of the Badminton Association's Sports Human Rights Commission (managing athletes' human rights), and three others were summoned as witnesses: Hong Seong-gil, president of the Gwangju Badminton Association (approval of the Yonex sponsored shoe regulations), Gil Young-ah, director of badminton at Samsung Life Insurance (player support, injury management), and Cha Yoon-sook, director of the Korea Badminton Association (director of Pocheon City Hall, revision of athlete management regulations).
The schedule is impossible to eliminate suspicions over the three sports organizations from 10 a.m. to 10 a.m. and afternoon. It is questionable whether more than 30 witnesses and reference witnesses will be given time to answer questions properly, as lawmakers are only criticizing each other. Amid the concentration of public attention, it seems that soccer players and sportsmen are being put together and interrogated in a narrow standing committee room all day long. Some are concerned about the professionalism of sports, biased questions that cater to public sentiment or popularity rather than the reality of truth, and the re-emergence of the dark history, which faced a backlash after summoning coach Sun Dong-yeol for the selection of players for the national baseball team in 2018. Criticism is also supported as to whether it is right for the National Assembly to make a fuss about selecting a soccer coach. In the case of the Badminton Association, various suspicions have already poured out through an interim briefing and a general meeting of the stylistic committee last month as a result of an audit by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism earlier this month. The government is also set to conduct a parliamentary audit next month. There is also an early prediction that there will be not much to eat at a famous feast. Tensions in the soccer and sports circles are rising as each lawmaker's office is focusing on developing a new 'killer question'.
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