Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Rejects Application for Re-examination of Special Audit of Korea Football Association...Follow-up measures are likely to be released after the presidential election
Jan 02, 2025
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On November 5 last year, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced a specific audit of the Korea Football Association. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism informed the Korea Football Association to come up with reasonable improvement measures while demanding reprimand (disciplinary action), correction, and attention, saying it confirmed cases of KFA specific audits, violations, and unfair cases.
The application for reconsideration was made when the Korea Football Association raised objections to seven inappropriate issues, including the process of appointing a national coach, handling the construction of the Korea Football Center, pardoning soccer players in 2023, paying consultation fees for part-time executives, operating a soccer leader's class, managing the Korea Football Association's Soccer Love Sharing Foundation, managing employee service and paying travel expenses, among the nine cases that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism demanded through a specific audit.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism held an audit review committee in accordance with the relevant regulations, and after deliberating on the seven issues, it decided to dismiss all of them. As the application for reconsideration is rejected, the Korea Football Association must implement the requirements for disposition based on the audit results as originally drafted and report the results of the measures to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In the case of reprimand (disciplinary action), the result must be notified after a decision on disciplinary action within one month. Measures such as system improvement and correction must be taken and reported within two months.
Meanwhile, an audit is currently underway into allegations of inappropriate dispatch of Hyundai Industrial Development employees to the Korea Football Association raised during the parliamentary audit of the National Assembly, and the results will be disclosed soon.
The Korea Football Association is set to hold its 55th presidential election on the 8th. Follow-up measures are expected to come out only after the election.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
