[전주=뉴스핌] Reporter Lee Baek-soo = Jeonju City Councilor Lee Guk (Deokjin, Palbok, Songcheon 2-dong) argued that “it is necessary to fundamentally improve Jeonju’s sports management” in his 5-minute speech at the 5th Plenary Session. “A City in Trouble.”
Representative Lee said, “After the Paris Olympics, local governments are working hard to promote the region and its specialty products by featuring local athletes such as Oh Sang-wook (fencing, Daejeon), Ahn Se-yong (badminton, Naju) and Kim Ye-ji (gun, Imsil). ), but Jeonju City pointed out that “instead of producing results on the part of sports management, the number of injuries is increasing.”
He continued, “Last year, we let the most famous professional basketball team, KCC, leave due to inexperienced management. We sent back a ‘legend’ due to unclear evaluation regarding the appointment of the first coach of the established Jeju city badminton team. This year.”
Republic Lee said, “Each year, 8 billion won in grants support the work of sports organizations and associations, 5.6 billion won are used to run various projects, and 2.4 billion won are used to conduct sports competitions. However, about 70 grants are used for high-budget tournaments.” Of these, 40 “% are recreational sports events, so stimulating the local economy will have a limited effect, like pouring water into a bottomless pot,” he emphasized.
Moreover, he regretted that “starting with the 2017 U-20 FIFA World Cup, international and national competitions that could have had a real economic impact have been cancelled.”
Accordingly, he asked for “strict management and control of sports organizations and competitions in various sports”.
Representative Lee Gok said, “Indeed, there are gems in Jeonju such as the women’s ice hockey team ‘Jeonju Hanok Village Team’, which was founded for the first time in the country and won the national championship held in Suwon in June. This year, 8 years after its establishment, he suggested that “we should focus on nurturing franchise star players and star sports” only in Jeonju.
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