Seung-tak Choi, Kyung-hoon Jin and Dong-moon Kim are three candidates… Voting on the 16th
Kim Tak-gyu, chairman of the Korea Badminton Association and shuttlecock(Miliang = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-min = Korea Badminton Association President Kim Tak-gyu watches the badminton preliminaries of the ‘105th National Sports Festival’ held at the Miryang Badminton Stadium in Miryang-si, Gyeongsangnam-do. 9th. The opening ceremony of the national sports festival held in Gimha city is on the 11th. 2024.10.9 [email protected]
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = The Election Coordinating Committee of the Korea Badminton Association has denied the candidacy of current president Taek-gyu Kim, who was running for the next presidency.
In the year On the 8th, the deadline for the registration of candidates for the 32nd presidential election, the Badminton Association Election Coordinating Committee, on behalf of the chairman, said, “We have reviewed the reasons for the rejection of candidate Kim Tak-gyu according to the election. It has been rejected.
Chairman Kim, a former president of the Chungnam Badminton Association and elected as the 31st president in January 2021, will no longer be able to run in this election.
Badminton Association Selection Co-ordinating Committee Chairman Kim explained the reason why he will not be rejected from his position, “By embezzling public money and breach of trust, if the association has made a refund, it has been suggested that they should be dismissed for violating the subsidy law.” The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is creating social controversies.
Chairman Kim has been facing calls for his resignation from within and without, as he is seen as the man at the center of various scandals involving the Badminton Association, which emerged following Ahn Se-yong’s winning ‘decisive comments’. A gold medal in women’s singles at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
At the end of October last year, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced the results of the inspection of the association’s office and the implementation of auxiliary projects, and asked for the dismissal of Chairman Kim.
With Chairman Kim gone, a total of three people have been nominated for the 32nd Badminton Association President election due to the deadline for nominations today.
Choi Seung-tak, former president of Daegu Badminton Association (CEO of Taesung Industry), Korea Business Badminton Federation President Jeon Gyeong-hoon (CEO of Passion Korea) and Kim Dong-mun, former Olympic gold medalist and Professor of Wonkwang University Department of Sports Science, compete.
The Badminton Association president election will be held on the 16th at the Sunshine Hotel in Daejeon.
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