Strengthen the role of the Sports Ethics Center X KSPO Sports Toto's separate subsidiary was established in the New Year of the National Sports Promotion Act, which will change the lives of sportspeople, passed the plenary session of the National Sports Promotion Act!
Dec 31, 2024
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Immediately after the revision of the National Sports Promotion Act was passed, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced the main contents in detail. The main points include expanding the role of a sports ethics center to protect the human rights of athletes, strengthening sports fairness, stabilizing the fund by establishing a separate subsidiary with expertise from the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation ahead of the publicization of the sports promotion voting rights on July 1 next year, expanding the scope of loans for the sports industry, and adding the `fostering the sports industry' to the work of the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation.
▶Protect human rights of athletes and strengthen fairness in sports and strengthen effectiveness
First of all, an objection system will be established for the results of the sports ethics center's investigation. Until now, there has been no procedure for the victim or reporter to re-examine the decision of the Sports Ethics Center 'Dismissal' or 'Dismissal'. In the future, if the victim or reporter disagrees with the decision of the Sports Ethics Center, an objection may be filed within 30 days from the date the decision is notified. In this case, the objection review committee within the Sports Ethics Center shall deliberate within 90 days and notify the result.
It has also been improved so that the Sports Ethics Center can demand disciplinary action against athletes' human rights violations or sports corruption by separating severe and light punishment. Until now, even if they committed serious misconduct or repeated the same misconduct, they could simply demand disciplinary action. In particular, it was pointed out that sports organizations were neglecting 'smooth punishment' because it was a system that determined the level of disciplinary action. In the future, the Sports Ethics Center will be able to distinguish the level of disciplinary demands in consideration of the type and seriousness of irregularities, such as the Board of Audit and Inspection and the Financial Supervisory Service. Light disciplinary action is reprimand and salary reduction, and severe disciplinary action is suspension of qualification or suspension of participation for up to 10 years, suspension, demotion, dismissal, dismissal, and expulsion. This matter shall take effect six months after the date of promulgation.
If the Sports Ethics Center requests disciplinary action or system improvement but the sports organization does not implement it, it can make a 'request for supplementation'request for re-action'. The revision is intended to supplement the effectiveness of the decision of the Sports Ethics Center. If a sports organization refuses to comply with the demand for re-action, central ministries and local governments, including the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, may restrict financial support to the sports organization within two years. Currently, sports organizations are legally obligated to report the results within 90 days of receiving disciplinary action, but 127 (33.5%) of the 379 cases demanded by the Sports Ethics Center from August 2020 to September 30, 2024 have not been reported so far. Among the demands for re-action by the Sports Ethics Center, the demand for re-disciplinary action is limited to reasons such as the fact that the disciplinary results are significantly light or that there are serious procedural defects. Measures to suspend financial support within two years will be implemented six months after the date of promulgation by setting detailed standards as enforcement ordinances.
In addition, so far, the Sports Ethics Center has been able to demand disciplinary action from sports organizations through the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Ethics, but in the future, the Sports Ethics Center will be able to directly demand disciplinary action. The current administrative process, which is being carried out through the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, can be shortened by about two weeks.
▶ The Korea Sports Promotion Foundation establishes a separate subsidiary to make sports promotion voting rights public
From July 1 next year, the issuance of sports promotion voting tickets (Sports Toto) will be publicized. There was controversy over whether it would be possible to develop the Korea Sports Industry, the only subsidiary to implement the project, and the revision laid the groundwork for the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation to establish a separate subsidiary specializing in Sports Toto. The subsidiary is a corporation under the Commercial Act, which owns the total number (100%) of issued shares by the National Sports Promotion Corporation. In addition, capital for the establishment of subsidiaries will be invested by the National Sports Promotion Fund, and the proceeds will be raised back to the National Sports Promotion Fund. The passage of the amendment also laid the groundwork for the National Sports Promotion Agency to carry out various procedures, including selecting a refund agency for the publicization of the sports promotion voting rights business before the establishment of the subsidiary.
▶ Benefits such as expanding the scope of loans for the sports industry, priority and preferential interest rates for loans to excellent equipment companies, etc
Among the sports industries, loan targets for equipment and service industries, which had relatively little loan support compared to the facility industry, will be greatly expanded. In the equipment industry, the loan target will be expanded from 144 excellent sports equipment producers designated by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism to all sports equipment producers (4024 as of 2023), and benefits such as loan priority and preferential interest rates can be given to excellent sports equipment producers. In the service industry, loans were included in existing sports companies, sports marketing, and sports information industries, and in addition, sports game and sports travel industries. The sports industry loan budget also increased by 84.4 billion won from 163.7 billion won in 2024 to 248.1 billion won in 2025. It will support the effect to be visible as soon as the law is revised.
▶Added to the legal affairs of the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation 'Promotion of the Sports Industry'
As the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation is pushing for financial support (loans and funds), start-up and management support for sports companies, and training professionals in the sports industry through projects worth 258.9 billion won as of 2024, it has strengthened the legal basis for the project to strengthen the sports industry by specifying the legal work of the corporation.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon evaluated that the revision of the law provided a groundbreaking opportunity for the development of sports, such as strengthening sports fairness, securing stable national sports promotion funds, and expanding support for sports enterprises" conveyed his will.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
