Every move by the Korea Football Association, which covered the ears of those who spoke out for the sake of Korean soccer and was conducted through the imperial presidency centered on the chairman, was shocking. It is even hard to say that they did many bad things.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced the results of a specific audit of the Korea Football Association at 1:30 p.m. on the 5th at the annex of the Seoul Government Complex.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which began an audit of the Korea Football Association on the appointment of a national coach on July 29 this year, released the results of the audit of the Korea Football Association through the final briefing following an interim briefing in early October.
In an interim briefing released in October, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced, “The Korea Football Association broke the rules several times in the process of appointing Hong Myung-bo and Jurgen Klinsmann as national coaches.”
Choi Hyun-joon, inspector general of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said, “We demanded censure of 16 employees including Chairman Chung Mong-gyu. A total of 27 illegal and unfair cases have been found and we have notified them of improvement.”
On the appointment of Jurgen Klinsmann-Hong Myung-bo as coach of the Korean national soccer team, Klinsmann said, “The KFA disabled the entire committee and had an interview with an unauthorized chairman. In the case of Hong, an unauthorized director had an interview. The board of directors was formally run. The KFA deceived the public with false accusations.”
In response, he said, “We demanded severe disciplinary action beyond suspension of qualifications from the chairman, the full-time vice chairman, and the general director.”
In addition, he said, “We have agreed to a loan of 61.5 billion won without prior approval from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism regarding the construction of the Cheonan Football Center. We received subsidies of 5.6 billion won from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism due to false reports that we will not assign office space here. We will recover some or all of the subsidies that were given by falsely applying for this. It can be redeemed five times.”
In addition, regarding the amnesty of more than 100 people, including match manipulators, in March 2023, he said, “The Korea Sports Council does not allow amnesty for match manipulation. If the rules of the sports association and each association are different, they should follow the sports association, but they did not follow it.”
Chung Mong-gyu, who was inaugurated as the 52nd president of the Korea Football Association in 2013, has been reigning as the head of the Korea Football Association for 12 years after being re-elected and serving three terms. He seemed to be on a not bad path as a soccer administrator because he was well-received as a former president of the Korea Football Association, and made achievements by hosting the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2013, his first year as the president of the Korea Football Association.
However, did he say that absolute power corrupts? As Chung’s term has been extended, the cooperative is now operating under the imperial presidency centered on the chairman. It was in March 2023 that the cooperative was able to properly show itself to the public.
The Korea Football Association announced on March 28, 2023, that it would pardon 100 soccer players who are being disciplined, including 48 match manipulators, just before the warm-up match against Uruguay. Even when Chairman Chung was president of the Korea Professional Football Association, he directly punished match manipulators, but he tried to reverse his decision with his own hands.
Although the Korea Federation of Commerce and Industry, which faced opposition from public opinion, withdrew its amnesty and issued an apology, the dark side of Chairman Chung’s system was clearly revealed through this incident. According to a number of testimonies at the time who attended the Korea Federation of Commerce and Industry’s board of directors, the atmosphere of the board was that when Chairman Chung talked about the agenda, the rest of the participants would only show their hands for consent. When asked about the validity of the agenda, the “notice” continued, so in the end, only those who were in Chung’s eyes attended the board of directors and raised their hands repeatedly. 메이저사이트
However, the Korea Federation of Commerce and Industry has continued to engage in dishonest acts, such as errors in the process of appointing a coach and false reports in the process of building a national training center, let alone changing these issues.
Eventually, at the final audit briefing of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the misdeeds of the cooperative were constantly revealed. It was a shocking moment to see how many times the cooperative has done something beyond common sense through its imperial operation.