The election of the 41st Korea Sports Hall will be held on the 18th.
The on-site voting was canceled due to the spread of Corona 19, and the chairman was elected through mobile voting for the first time ever.
A group of 2,170 electors randomly selected from the representatives of the Korean Sports Association, member sport organizations, 17 city/province athletic meets nationwide, and 228 city/county/gu athletic meet executives, athletes, leaders, and hobbyists will be electing the president.
Since there is no final voting system, the candidate with the most votes is immediately elected to the president, and only those with more than 20% of the effective votes can receive a donation of 70 million won back.
There are four candidates who have decided to become the head of Korean sports.
Lee Ki-heung, the current president of the Korea Sports Association, who is challenging for re-election, Kang Shin-wook, a professor at Dankook University, who was a hockey player, Lee Jong-geol, a former president of the Korea Basketball Association, and Joon-Sang Yoo, a former chairman of the Korea Yacht Association, who served as a fourth member We are expanding our activities.
The domestic sports community expects Chairman Ki-heung Lee's fixed vote to be around 40%.
So, if the election is held in a four-way match like now, there is a high possibility that Lee Ki-heung will be re-elected.
What appears naturally in this situation is the problem of candidate unification.
However, Yoo Jun-sang recently struck two people with Lee Jong-geol-Kang Shin-wook, saying, "Before registration of the candidate, he overturned his intention to run and made a confusion among the sportsmen and the electoral corps. It doesn't seem easy to unify.
In the end, unification narrows down to the problem of Lee Jong-geol and Kang Shin-wook.
One of the two must give up the 70 million won deposit and retire to achieve unification.
First of all, this is the logic of sportsmen that the unification of candidate Lee Jong-geol should be achieved.
"In a situation where normal election campaigns are not easy due to the spread of Corona 19, the most important thing is the candidate's reputation and weight. Candidate Jong-geol Lee, who was formerly the fifth congressman, is far ahead of Candidate Shin-wook Kang. Considering this reality, there is no guarantee of defeating Chairman Lee Ki-heung if Kang Shin-wook is a single candidate. So a single candidate must become candidate Lee Jong-geol."
On the other hand, as candidate Kang Shin-wook, athletes argue that the unification should be decided.
"Lee Jong-geol is a candidate who came out as a so-called'pinch hit' when Woo Seok-dae's honorary president Jang Young-dal gave up due to controversy over qualifications for running because he did not intend to run for the sports venue. Moreover, candidate Kang Shin-wook the next morning after he declared running on December 28th. After showing support and expressing his intention to resign, he managed to register four minutes before the registration deadline, and received fierce criticism, “Is the gym a playground?” Candidate Shin-wook Kang, who has been preparing for a sports venue for a long time, will give up to Candidate Jong-geol Lee, who has made a come and go. It's just a comedy. If you unify your candidate Lee Jong-geol, you won't be able to get a good vote and you can't beat candidate Lee Gi-heung."
The joint debate with four candidates running for the election of the Korea Sports Center will be held for about two hours on the 9th, hosted by the Central Election Commission, and the entire debate will be broadcast live through the Internet.
And if all 4 people agree, another debate will be held on the 14th.
If the two candidates Lee Jong-geol and Kang Shin-wook are unified, there is a high possibility that it will take place on the 11th-13th, between the 9th and 14th.
In sports,'fair play' is life, but this election of the Korea Sports Complex is out of the way from the beginning.
Candidate who resigned after a few days after declaring to run, candidate who announced his intention to run but did not register, and suddenly even had a press conference for running, but expressed his intention to give up in less than 24 hours and then changed his mind a few hours later and registered again. , Even though it was virtually impossible to run for the Korean Sports Association's articles of association, candidates who tried to run for the run through press conferences twice and suddenly gave up came out one after another, resulting in a'muddy election'.
Even if you look at the policies announced by the four candidates, there is no noticeable difference.
It has become difficult to expect a healthy policy confrontation over the future of Korean sports.
Instead of this, the whole interest of the election is'Is it ego-heung?
vs. Ban Kiheung Lee?' is a situation that focuses only on election engineering issues.
All that remains is the wise judgment of the 2,170 electors.
I think we should avoid only the'worst' candidates by participating in the vote with the feeling that if it is not the'second best' or'the worst'.
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