2024-07-25 06:58:22
When the Football Association’s statement was pointed out, the reporter was mocked in a personal email
Unilateral response without formal protest or objection procedures
As the Korea Football Association spent nearly half a year appointing Hong Myung-bo as the new head coach of the national football team, a high-ranking official from the association responded to a reporter who wrote a critical article with a mocking email.
At around 9:26 AM on the 23rd, a high-ranking official from the Korea Football Association sent an email to a Newsis reporter with the subject line, “Literacy?” without a body text.
It was interpreted as a mockery of the reporter’s poor literacy skills.
Then, half a day later, at 3:05 PM, another email arrived from the same person with the subject line, “Have you read the Football Association’s explanation properly?” Again, there was no content in the body of the email.
Connected to the email that arrived earlier, it seemed that the high-ranking official was criticizing the reporter for writing the article without properly reading the explanation from the Football Association, or for not even understanding the explanation due to poor literacy skills.
Considering the sender’s name, email address, and even the Football Association banner at the bottom of the email, it was clear that the two emails were sent by an association official.
After contacting the actual Football Association, it was confirmed that these emails were sent by a high-ranking official of the Football Association.
It has been reported that a high-ranking official of the football association sent an email to protest the article written by a Newsis reporter (The Football Association Explains the Process of Selecting a Manager… Ultimately, the ‘fairness’ was not explained).
On the 22nd, the day before the article was published, the Korea Football Association explained the controversy surrounding the appointment of Coach Hong and the process of selecting the official commander over the past five months through its official website.
However, the conclusion of the coach selection process organized by the Korea Football Association did not clearly explain that the selection of Coach Hong was a ‘unilateral decision’ by the Korea Football Association’s Chief Technical Director, Im Saeng, and that the two final candidates ‘evaluated the foreign coaches and Coach Hong by different standards.’
The Korea Football Association stated that Chairman Chung Mong-gyu had left the final decision on selecting the coach entirely up to Director Lee Im-saeng, and that the Korea Football Association knew Coach Hong’s football philosophy and career very well, so there was no need to check other information, unlike with foreign coach candidates.
In addition, even though the two foreign coaches who conducted the final interview personally presented 22 and 16 pages of materials respectively, they added the explanation that “passion and sincerity cannot be the basis for ability and competitiveness as the national team coach,” and explained that there was no problem with the process of appointing Coach Hong.
Regarding the association’s statement, a Newsis reporter wrote an article stating, “The Korea Football Association’s statement actually proves that the procedures and systems within the association were not functioning properly,” and that the fact that it was presented as an explanation itself “only shows that the Korea Football Association has no grasp of the core of the problems that the public and soccer players are currently pointing out.”
As a high-ranking official of the Korea Football Association who has faced nationwide criticism, from the pardon of match-fixing criminals to the appointment of Coach Hong, it is quite possible that he may feel wronged by the criticism directed at the association, and it is also quite possible that he may question the reporter’s interpretation.
In that case, you can formally file a protest or objection to the reporter or the media outlet he or she is affiliated with.
However, despite being a high-ranking official representing the Football Association, he responded with one-sided ridicule towards the reporter without making sufficient efforts or procedures to explain his position.
The Korea Football Association, which had threatened legal action against former National Team Strengthening Committee member Park Joo-ho, who exposed the process of selecting the national team commander, but then withdrew its decision due to public criticism, has now sent a ‘mocking email’ to a reporter who pointed out the fairness.
This is an example of how the Football Association is responding to recent criticism.
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2024-07-25 06:58:22