At the end of the Choi Tae-won era, SK Hynix President Kwak No-jung runs for the sole election as president of the Korea Handball Association
Jan 08, 2025
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The Korea Handball Association closed the registration of candidates on the 7th, and Kwak No-jung, CEO of SK Hynix, ran alone. The handball association officially announced on the 13th that Kwak will be confirmed as the new president of the association for a four-year term after a deliberation process without a separate voting process.
Kwak presented three directions to lead Korean handball in the future with his campaign pledge. First of all, President Kwak emphasized that SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won will continue his interest and support for Korean handball while working as the president of the Korea Handball Association. SK has provided more than 150 billion won since 2008 when Chairman Chey Tae-won took over the Korea Handball Association.
Kwak also vowed to make handball one of the country's top five group sports following baseball, soccer, basketball, and volleyball.
To this end, President Kwak announced his plan to make it a popular sport with a solid fan base within his term by focusing his efforts on improving the performance of the H League, a domestic business league, live broadcasting of all games, and sports marketing. In order to raise public interest in handball, the government will also make efforts to revitalize school handball centered on fostering dream trees and expand the base of handball as a daily sport.
President Kwak also promised to support the national team to regain its status as an Asian leader and grow its presence on the global stage. Strengthening international competitiveness is a priority, and programs such as expanding exchanges with advanced handball countries, fostering leaders and referees with an international sense, and strengthening systematic support systems to improve the national team's performance will be carried out.
Kwak expressed his respect to Chairman Chey Tae-won, who has provided love and support for more than 16 years, as a professional manager. If he becomes the new chairman of the association, he will do his best to enhance Korea's handball status and leap forward by inheriting Chairman Choi's philosophy."
Meanwhile, Chairman Choi, who has led handball in Korea, gave up his third consecutive term. He did not submit the documents to the second term review by the Sports Fair Committee of the Korea Sports Council. Choi will only serve as president of the handball association until February and step down. With this, Chairman Choi's system, which raised its sails in December 2008, ends.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
