Badminton Association chief Kim Tak-gyu, who lost his bid for re-election, was re-nominated following a court ruling a day before the election. News 1
Korea Badminton Association President Kim Tak-gyu reinstated his candidacy status, the court partially granted an application for a temporary injunction against the Election Coordinating Committee’s (hereinafter referred to as the Election Committee) decision to deny his candidacy. The next presidential election.
On the 15th, the Seoul Eastern District Court of Civil Procedure Section 21 (Chief Judge Kim Jeong-min) decided to partially refer to the application submitted by chairman Taek-gyu Kim for a temporary order against the Badminton Association to reject and suspend the registration of presidential election candidates. . Since there were major procedural errors in the Nomination Committee’s decision to reject Chairman Kim’s candidacy, the court decided to suspend the results of the rejection and temporarily declare Chairman Kim’s candidacy qualifications.
However, the court rejected Chairman Kim’s argument that the election process should not continue as originally scheduled without him. So the move forward in the 16th presidential election will be decided by the Badminton Association.
Chairman Kim Tak-gyu was elected as the 31st president of the Badminton Association in January 2021 and served for four years before running for re-election in this election. However, on the 8th nomination deadline, the selection committee announced, “We have reviewed the reasons for the rejection of candidate Taek-Gyu Kim in accordance with the regulations related to candidate qualifications, so the decision to register as a candidate is rejected and we announce that he has not been nominated for the position of chairman,” and Chairman Kim’s candidacy has been canceled.
The selection committee recommended that Chairman Kim be prosecuted for embezzlement and breach of trust, be removed from the association for violating the subsidy law, and be fired from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, an advanced organization, considered a ‘controversial person’ as a reason to limit his candidacy.
In relation to this, Chairman Kim in the Seoul Eastern District Court in 2010. As the court issued a partial ruling on this day, Chairman Kim was re-registered as a candidate at the end of the election schedule.
Choi Seung-tak, former president of the Daegu Badminton Association (CEO of Taesung Industry), Jeon Kyeong-hun, president of the Korea Business Badminton Federation (CEO of Passion Korea), and Kim Dong-mun, former president of the Badminton Association. The Olympic gold medalist and professor of the Department of Sports Science at Wonkwang University, has been nominated and is in the thick of the voting campaign.