January 14th, the Korea Sports Council! Candidate Kang Shin-wook Opens Election Office, Launches Election Campaign

Dec 28, 2024

Kang Shin-wook (68), an honorary professor at Dankook University who is challenging the 42nd chairman of the Korea Sports Council, opened an election office.

Candidate Kang Shin-wook held an election office opening ceremony on the 4th floor of Sohae Building in Sinsa-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul at 2 p.m. on the 28th, attended by more than 400 officials from the sports association, affiliated organizations and municipal sports associations.

At the meeting, Kang promised to change by saying, `The KOC has become abnormal because of only one person over the past eight years,' `Let's change the head to a new person on Jan. 14 so that the KOC can be reborn.'

Park Chang-beom (55), former president of the Korea Wushu Association who resigned after declaring his support for Kang after a hunger strike against Lee Ki-heung's third consecutive term, served as the head of the election camp's standing election division. `Since Kang is a moral, clean, and prepared candidate, let us all join forces to make a new leader come out.' Candidate Kang made key pledges, including the revision of the National Sports Promotion Act, which calls for the normalization of local sports associations, and began a full-fledged campaign.

Source=Central Election Commission

Meanwhile, the 42nd election for the chairman of the Korean Olympic Committee will be held at Olympic Hall in Olympic Park, Songpa-gu, Seoul, from 1 p.m. on January 14 next year. After the announcement of each candidate's opinion is completed, on-site voting will be held for 150 minutes (2 hours and 30 minutes) from the announcement of the commencement of the voting officer. 2,244 electors selected by random lottery by region, event, and occupation, including member organizations, cities, provinces, city, county and district sports associations, athletes, leaders, referees, and player management managers, will participate in the vote. During the candidate registration period from the 24th to the 25th, six candidates have registered, including No. 1 Lee Ki-heung, current chairman of the Korea Sports Council, No. 2 Kim Yong-joo, secretary-general of the Gangwon-do Sports Council, No. 3 Yoo Seung Min, former IOC member (former chairman of the Korea Table Tennis Association), No. 4 Kang Tae-sun, chairman of the Seoul Sports Council (Chairman Black Yak), No. 5 Oh Joo-young, former chairman of Korea Sepak Takraw, and No. 6 Kang Shin-wook, emeritus professor of Dankook University. Election campaigns can be held for 20 days from the 26th, the day after candidate registration, to the election day.

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