"It's a pity that sports with high educational value are organized by some people. This is not the sport we are pursuing, but sometimes we blame ourselves for what happened. I cry thinking that we are only this big." 안전놀이터
This is what Chairman Ha Hyung-joo, who took office as chairman of the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation in November last year, said at a press conference. It was a time when there was a lot of noise due to the heads of the sports community who were called to the National Assembly and were subject to investigation and heavy punishment.
In the New Year, little has changed. Rather, Lee Ki-heung, president of the Korea Sports Council, and Chung Mong-gyu, president of the Korea Football Association, who have been at the center of controversy, are challenging to serve three and four terms, respectively. Mistrust deepened as people who were mired in controversy and suspicions raised issues of fairness in elections on their way to serving consecutive terms, and the sports community plunged into chaos.
The sports community is in pain due to a flurry of "applications for provisional injunction to suspend elections" due to the issue of fairness in the election process during the election season, which has to add heat to the election process due to fierce policy battle over solving a flurry of tasks. "We can't even hold elections. We have deep distrust in them. I wonder if they are working with the same goal in the same country and the same field," a source in the sports community said.
The election for the president of the Korea Football Association, which was scheduled for the 8th, was suspended a day before the election day when the Seoul Central District Court cited Huh Jung-moo's application for an injunction against the election, citing unfairness.