2024-06-25 04:24:19
Media Will advisor Joo Received-hong (68) has as soon as once more turn out to be the top of the Korea Tennis Affiliation.
The Tennis Affiliation introduced on the twenty third, “Because of the by-election for the twenty eighth president held on the tennis courtroom at Olympic Park in Songpa-gu, Seoul, Advisor Joo was elected with 79 votes (47.6%) out of a complete of 166 votes.”
Because of this, Advisor Joo turns into the second president of the Tennis Affiliation, following his time because the twenty sixth president from 2013 to 2016.
New Chairman Joo will start his twenty ninth time period when the twenty eighth govt time period ends on the finish of this 12 months and can lead the Tennis Affiliation till 2028.
Up up to now, it’s no totally different from another sports activities group presidential election article.
Nonetheless, there’s a distinction in that it isn’t but recognized whether or not the Korea Sports activities Council will acknowledge the outcomes of this election.
The Korea Sports activities Council despatched official letters to the Tennis Affiliation twice throughout this election interval requesting the suspension of the election.
The Sports activities Council argued that ‘resuming the presidential election with out consulting with the Sports activities Council earlier than the grace interval for designation as a administration group has even expired is a violation of the member sport group rules, and so forth.’
To grasp this case, we should return to 2016, when Chairman Joo was defeated within the twenty seventh presidential election.
To be extra exact, we have to return to 2015, when the Army Academy tennis courtroom was transformed.
Chairman Joo, Yang Jong-soo, then dean of the Korea Army Academy, and then-Guri Mayor Park Younger-soon agreed to rework the courtroom inside the army academy and open it to tennis fans.
In a scenario the place tennis fans are at all times on the lookout for a courtroom, it was judged that it could be a waste to open the 30-sided (14 clay courts and 16 exhausting courts) army academy courtroom in Galmae-dong, Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do solely to cadets.
The issue was that the Tennis Affiliation didn’t have the price range to proceed with this mission.
Accordingly, Chairman Joo borrowed 3 billion received from Mediawill, run by his youthful brother, CEO Joo Received-seok, and determined handy over the proper to function this courtroom for an extended time frame.
The army academy courtroom was transformed into an indoor courtroom and had its completion ceremony on December 9, 2015.
No less than up up to now, there wasn’t a lot of an issue from the Tennis Affiliation’s perspective.
Nonetheless, as Chairman Joo fails to hunt a second time period, turbulence begins.
The one that defeated Chairman Joo and have become the top of the Tennis Affiliation was former Chairman Kwak Yong-un (64).
Former Chairman Kwak stated that giving Mediawill the proper to function the Korea Army Academy courtroom may very well be thought-about a breach of belief, and altered the coverage to permit the Tennis Affiliation to function the courtroom instantly.
In response, Media Will filed a lawsuit, saying that the Tennis Affiliation must repay 3 billion received for transforming prices plus curiosity.
After a collection of authorized battles and ‘out-of-court battles’ surrounding this case all through former Chairman Kwak’s time period, the courtroom dominated in favor of Media Will, saying that the Tennis Affiliation ought to pay 6 billion received.
Because of this, the Tennis Affiliation nearly went bankrupt and have become a ‘plant affiliation’ that might not use the nationwide crew sponsorship cash because it wished.
Former Chairman Kwak was ultimately defeated within the twenty eighth presidential election and needed to go away the Tennis Affiliation, receiving solely the title, “The one that was referred to as ‘a tennis novice’ by Ahn Min-seok through the 2018 Nationwide Meeting audit.”
The one that defeated former Chairman Kwak and Chairman Joo and was elected as Chairman was Jeonbuk Tennis Affiliation President Jeong Hee-gyun (57), the youthful brother of then Nationwide Meeting Speaker Jeong Sye-kyun.
Former Chairman Jeong reached an settlement with Media Will to repay the remaining curiosity of 1.55 billion received over three years and to finalize the principal by transferring the proper to function the Korea Army Academy Courtroom.
The issue didn’t finish right here.
Media Will requested the Tennis Affiliation to provide an investigation report mentioning the ‘tyranny’ of former Chairman Kwak’s regime and publish it on its Web homepage, and former Chairman Jeong accepted it.
Nonetheless, the Tennis Affiliation didn’t hold this promise.
There was one other impediment.
The contract signed between the Tennis Affiliation and the Korea Nationwide College of Korea when deciding to rework the Nationwide Academy of Sciences courtroom included the clause that “any rights and obligations (bonds, money owed, and so forth.) associated to this contract can’t be transferred or used as collateral.”
Accordingly, handing over the proper to function the courtroom for the aim of repaying debt was a violation of contract.
Ultimately, the contract signed between the Tennis Affiliation and Media Will grew to become nothing greater than a chunk of paper.
In different phrases, as time passes, the debt that the affiliation should repay steadily accumulates.
In the meantime, suspicions arose that former Chairman Chung had used among the sponsorship cash he obtained within the title of the Tennis Affiliation and among the promoting income from worldwide competitions for a unique objective.
Former Chairman Chung ultimately resigned voluntarily on September sixth of final 12 months.
The Tennis Affiliation, which modified to the system of appearing president Son Younger-ja (63), was initially scheduled to carry a by-election for president on October 29 final 12 months.
Right now, the Korea Sports activities Council put the brakes on the occasion, saying, ‘A president shouldn’t be elected when regular operations are inconceivable resulting from debt.’
The Korea Sports activities Council continued to press for designation of the Tennis Affiliation as a ‘administration group.’
Briefly, ‘Tennis individuals solely know easy methods to get into debt and are usually not able to operating an affiliation, so we’ll take cost of the operation ourselves.’
Media Will then introduced, ‘Because the Tennis Affiliation has proven its will to enhance relations, we’ll write off all the excellent compensation amounting to 4.61 billion received.’
Appearing Director Son held a press convention on the thirtieth of final month, a day earlier than the board of administrators of the Korea Sports activities Council, and stated, “As President Lee Ki-heung of the Korea Sports activities Council stated that anybody can turn out to be the president of the Tennis Affiliation if the debt is paid off, I count on Chairman Lee to maintain his promise with this debt forgiveness.” .
In response, the Korea Sports activities Council additionally took a step again, delaying designation as a administration group for one month.
And earlier than one month has handed, the Tennis Affiliation has elected Chairman Joo as its new head.
Chairman Joo stated, “Now that I’m main the affiliation, I’ll seek the advice of intently with the Korea Sports activities Council to resolve the difficulty.”
On the identical time, he emphasised, “There was speak that this election can be a motive to designate a administration group, however you will need to resolve this problem properly for the sake of the electoral faculty that elected me.”
It’s not but recognized whether or not this election would be the ‘starting of the tip’ or the ‘finish of the start’ on this scenario that started in 2015.
It’s because every individual has a unique perspective and totally different pursuits.
One factor is for certain: Although the Tennis Affiliation has its fingers and ft tied, tennis is receiving probably the most consideration because the founding of the nation.
Minister of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism Yoo In-chon expressed his intention to reform the sports activities system on the twentieth, saying, “We have to look again and see if (Korean sports activities) haven’t returned to a system for associations.”
Possibly the Tennis Affiliation was like this, and the essence of the scenario was that, aside from some ‘elite tennis individuals,’ nobody mentioned the disaster of Korean tennis.
Reporter Hwang Gyu-in [email protected]
2024-06-25 04:24:19