Joonho Yang Deputy Director, Culture and Leisure Department
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The athletic world is now the season of elections. The elections for the president of the Korea Sports Complex will be held on the 18th, and the elections for the presidents of the Korea Baseball Softball Association and the Korea Golf Association will be held on the 12th. The elections for the Korean Badminton Association and Kukki President will also be held this month. In the first month of the new year, elections for 40 sports under the Korean Sports Association, including those that had recently been elected, were gathered.
The vote is an atmosphere that focuses on stability rather than change. This is because, in the case of a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), sports were canceled, pushed back, or reduced, and the emergency system continued, leaving even the space to seek a new person. The voices of new candidates crying out for change only with their ideal promises can be heard empty.
The biggest concern is the election of the Korea Sports Council. At the same time, it is a’sports president’ who executes an annual budget of 400 billion won, and there is also a restriction that the operation of the sports club is managed and supervised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, a superior institution. It is a position that should keep pace with government policies while leading the integration of the sports world. There are many comments that Chairman Lee Ki-heung and Lee Jong-geul and Yoo Jun-sang, former members of the National Assembly, and Kang Shin-wook, who used to be a player, leader, and professor, are influential.
However, Chairman Lee and other candidates shouting’anti-Lee Ki-heung’ have something in common. While emphasizing the strengthening of sovereignty in the sports world, the protection of athletes’ rights is consistent with formal slogans and obvious measures. In spite of the splendid pledges of the establishment of the National Sports Committee, the Sports Administration, and the resurgence of the Ministry of Sports, the eradication of violence and sexual violence in the sports field has turned into a pledge to match the assortment. Earlier, in the process of registering candidates, controversy over qualifications, controversy over hits, and reversal of the declaration of a run were continued, and the election board became muddy early. The short-track sexual assault case and the death of Choi Sook-hyun, a triathlon athlete, have revealed difficulties in the sports world only two years ago and last year.
The athletic community’s insensitivity to violence was also revealed in the election of the president of the Korea Ice Hockey Association in December last year. Choi Cheol-won, CEO of Might & Main, who caused the ripples of’match-price assault’ in the past, received a condemnation. It is the result of closing his eyes on the GapJil assault power and voting for a welcoming pledge such as expanding infrastructure. Choi is a person who earned public resentment when it was known that he handed 20 million won to a truck driver who had been protesting to the office and beat him with a baseball bat. Choi, who was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison at the first trial, was released on probation at the second trial.
This year is the year of the Tokyo Olympics. Under the cause of the national prestige Shenyang, I am worried that the issue of human rights in the sports world will sink below the surface of Yuyamuya again this time. Unfortunately, the 18th, the day of the election of the Korea Sports Center, is also the day of the sentence of the two players and the coach who committed harsh acts against Choi.
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