As scheduled for the election of the chairman of the Korea Sports Council, the suspension of the election will be dismissed tomorrow.
Jan 13, 2025
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The election for the chairman of the Korean Olympic Committee will be held as scheduled at 1 p.m. on the 14th at Olympic Park Hall in Songpa-gu, Seoul.
Candidate Kang Shin-wook (Dankook University honorary professor) submitted an injunction to the Seoul Eastern District Court on the 8th to suspend the election of the chairman of the Korean Sports Council. He argued that the composition of 2244 electors was not drawn according to due process, and that voting conditions were set to make it difficult for elections by electors to take place in equal conditions, violating the candidate's right to run for election. Candidate Kang said, "Officers received personal information consent through text messages to participate in the election, but athletes, leaders, referees, and athletes only check the registration system for athletes without obtaining personal information consent, and even 'people who cannot or should not participate in voting, such as dead, non-athletes, and enlisted athletes, are included in the electorate." Not only candidate Kang but also 11 delegates, including Lee Ho-jin, chairman of the Korea Ice Hockey Association, filed an injunction request to the Seoul Eastern District Court on the 7th to suspend the election of the chairman of the sports committee. They argued that voting for only 150 minutes after announcing the candidate's political opinion seriously infringes on the right to vote. It was also controversial that 228 city, county, and district sports associations in 17 cities and provinces were limited to one Olympic Hall in Seoul. In the case of the 55th presidential election of the Korea Football Association, all schedules were canceled a day before the election due to the fact that candidate Huh Jung-moo (former national soccer team coach)'s request for provisional injunction against the presidential election was cited, and whether to cite the suspension of the election for the president of the Korea Sports Association became a hot topic. Unlike the Korea Football Association presidential election, the election for the president of the Korea Sports Council was commissioned to the National Election Commission and the formation of electors was completed a year ago. The selection of electors was made by the Election Commission, the Central Election Commission, and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and there is no illegality at all, and there is no problem with fairness" expressed his position and actively explained this part during a court hearing on the 10th.
On the afternoon of the 13th, the 21st Civil Agreement Department of the Seoul Eastern District Court dismissed the application for the "disposal of suspension of elections". The election for the 42nd president of the Korea Sports Council will take place on the 14th as scheduled. A total of six people, including current chairman Lee Ki-heung, former secretary-general of the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Sports Council, Kim Yong-joo, former IOC member (former president of the Korea Table Tennis Association), Kang Tae-sun, chairman of the Seoul Sports Council, Oh Joo-young, president of the Korea Sepak Takraw Association, and Kang Shin-wook, emeritus professor of Dankook University (Kho Ki-soon), will challenge the position of head of Korean sports for a four-year term amid the competition rate of the highest ever. Starting at 1 p.m., each candidate will make a 10-minute political announcement and a 150-minute vote will be held to determine the winner.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
