Former Special Adviser'Kim Byung-chul, Chairman of the Sports Fair Committee'I am not a close aide to Chairman Lee Ki-heung"
Oct 22, 2024
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Kim Byung-chul, chairman of the Korea Sports Council's Sports Fair Committee, adamantly denied the `neighborhood theory' with Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Sports Council, and the `friendship theory' with Chung Mong-kyu, president of the Korea Football Association.
Chairman Kim attended the parliamentary audit of the National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee held at the National Assembly building in Yeouido, Seoul on the afternoon of the 22nd as a witness. Kim, a former special advisor to Lee Ki-heung, had been embroiled in suspicions of `self-deliberation' on fairness as the head of the sports fair committee to deliberate on Lee's third consecutive term.
Chairman of the states Affairs Commission Kim was unable to attend the meeting due to health problems immediately after the surgery at the time of questioning on the pending issue in September, but he expressed his position as a witness to the stylistic committee later in the day. Park Jung-ha, a member of the People's Power, inquired about Chairman Kim Byung-chul's previous experience in relocating to the Korean Sports Council, and Chairman Kim began his term as chairman of the Sports Fair Committee in May 2019 and was at Sejong Law Firm before coming as chairman of the Sports Fair Committee. After working at the Board of Audit and Inspection, I was mostly at school because I was restricted from public office for three years"It was my first time at the sports association and I served as a special assistant for two years from 2017 to 2018." When asked when he first met Chairman Lee Ki-heung, "I don't remember well. I met him a long time ago."
Responding to the view that he is a close aide to Chairman Lee Ki-heung, Chairman Kim Byung-chul said, `I don't think I am a close aide.' The Fair Trade Commission's judgment on the issue of confidants, the issue of the Korea Sports and Fair Trade Commission, the chairman of each chairman's association, the chairman of the Korea Sports and Olympic Committee's articles of association, and the FTC's judgment on that matter is hard to say for the chairman of the Fair Trade Commission. I think we can do that if we have issues where people in public offices work and consult, and we are consulted to solve the problems facing the sports association within a short period of time." When asked about his thoughts on revising the articles of incorporation that would pave the way for three consecutive terms as chairman of the Korea Sports and Fair Commission and four consecutive terms as chairman of the Korea Football Association, Kim said \'Right, Wrong' is hard to say. It is a policy judgment for local sports. A working-level official made a policy proposal that local sports were collapsing, and there was a lot of controversy at the Sports and Fair Trade Commission. "But I think the revision of the articles of incorporation can be done enough because it is a policy issue." reported his position.
Regarding allegations that they played golf together at golf courses around the three-term deliberation of Chung Mong-kyu, president of the Korea Football Association, Kim Byung-chul, chairman of the Korea Sports and Fair Committee, said, `I thought it was a competition to unite the executives of the Korea Sports Association. I haven't talked to him in advance, and I haven't heard from him. I went because I heard there was a sports event." "He was one of several. I got a text message from the Korea Sports Council and went. I went because I heard there was a meeting of the sports association's executives. It's true." "There's no such thing as calling or chatting with him on his own. He also stressed that the chairman cannot be involved in the FTC's deliberation on a second term. Regarding the passage of most applications for consecutive terms of executives after Chairman Kim's inauguration in 2019, Chairman Kim said, `In 2016, the integration of the Korean Sports Council and the Sports Council was the first start of the two-term examination, and there was confusion in various procedures and documents. There were many trials and errors, such as a lot of rejections and retrial, he explained. "In 2017 and 2018, the subcommittee conducted quantitative and qualitative evaluations and then reported them to the main committee. Our committee members are trying a lot to be fair."
Rep. Park said, `Even if Chairman Lee Ki-heung declares his bid for a third consecutive term, the FTC should review it. Chairman Lee made a special report, and the appointment of the members was also the Chairman Lee'," he said, referring to the issue of `conflict of interest.' Chairman Kim said "The chairman of the sports fair committee shall be appointed by the General Assembly in accordance with the articles of association. It is not a position appointed by the chairman. It is independent of the chairman and is supposed to do it autonomously. All of our members are working with that feeling and determination, not under the direction of the chairman." Responding to Rep. Park Jung-ha's rebuke that `Who would believe that by the people,' Chairman Kim said, `The chairman has not yet said that he will try for a third term, and I will think deeply about what I will do according to future regulations and articles of association. There is an avoidance system in the event of an unfair situation in Article 11 of the articles of incorporation. I'll consider it if I have to apply it" expressed his intention.
Rep. Yang Moon-seok of the Democratic Party of Korea also continued to ask intense questions about Chairman Kim. The Sports Fair Committee, which deliberates on Lee Ki-heung's third term and Chung Mong-kyu's fourth term, reprimanded the provincial sports council's policy crisis as the reason for the revision of the articles of association, which calls for the removal of the two-term limit on sports heads. Unlike 17 cities and major sports organizations, the government tried to explain the reality of local governments, which is difficult to find 8,201 heads of municipal and provincial sports organizations, but it was not accepted. Immediately after the inquiry, Chairman Kim asked Jeon Jae-soo, chairman of the National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee, to speak. Chairman of the states Affairs Commission Kim said, `It is not for the Sports Fair Committee to attempt to change its articles of association. The articles of association explained that the Ministry of Planning of the Korea Sports Association would inform the problem and change the articles of association. There are difficulties in local sports, cities, and districts. Ninety-eight percent are single candidates. In the case of sports organizations in cities, counties, and districts, 70-80% of them are single candidates. "We wanted to review the articles of incorporation twice and add clues after our Fair Trade Commission members were told if it was true with the Planning Department, but the committee cannot make policy decisions only by looking at the legislation system," it said. "I heard that Chairman Lee Ki-heung has submitted an articles of association to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to abolish the two-term limit on executives except for himself at the general meeting of the representatives."
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