One day ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays, the board of directors of the Korea Curling Federation was held.

This is because one of the directors called for an emergency board meeting.

According to the bylaws of the Federation, the board of directors must convene after specifying the agenda 5 days before the meeting, but the urgency was'without asking or questioning' the reason.

The chairman of the board of directors, the chairman's agency, and the agency's agency all resigned, and there was only one agenda dealt with by the emergency board of directors.

It was the schedule for the re-election of the president.

There has been no discussion on support for the national team, which has not been properly conducted since three months after the national team selection.

For them, only the presidential election was'urgent'.




Less than a year left until the Beijing Winter Olympics.

There is no one in the federation executive who is worried about the players who roll their feet.

PyeongChang Olympic silver medalist'Tim Kim' failed to renew his contract with his team Gyeongbuk Sports Association even after retaking the Taegeuk mark after three years in November of last year.

(▶ [Exclusive] Tim Kim, the fall of the'companion team'…People's national team) The federation's management responsibility has increased, but it has been completely neglected.

The federation delayed the approval process for the national team to change the year on the basis of the suspension of qualifications to Tim Kim's coach Myung-seop.

After the national team was approved last month only for athletes, the coach did not apply for training because the coach was undergoing disciplinary procedures.

As a result of the reconsideration by the Korea Sports Association, a senior institution, the discipline against Coach Lim was canceled earlier this month.

It's like wasting precious time.

It is more fortunate that the World Championship, which also serves as the qualifier for the Beijing Olympics, was suddenly canceled.



The men's team situation is worse.

The men's national team is a hobbyist team made up of seniors and juniors in high school.

In the representative selection, he won the unemployment team and put the first Taegeuk mark in his life.

To compare it to football, Uijeongbu High School OB Football Association beat the pro team one after another and won the FA Cup to get the right to advance to the Champions League.

The federation's support was more desperate, but it was also neglected.

The reason was that there was no leader, and if so, the federation had to rush to fill the spot.

It has only recently entered into the competition process, but as it is, preparations for the April World Championships should be made only by the players.

Even that, the training cost is insufficient, so I am very confident.

The federation gives reasons for the approval process of the Korea Sports Association and the interpretation of the ambiguity of the national team selection rules.

I close my ears thoroughly to voices saying'There are many excuses and no will'.




In August 2019, the current executive team formed after the inauguration of Chairman Kim Jae-hong was repeated.

It was revealed as a result of the audit of the Korea Sports Association that he was'gap' to employees, committed hiring corruption, and illegally using government subsidies.

No one was responsible.

Chairman Kim Jae-hong suddenly resigned within a year of his inauguration, and after that, the vice-chairmen quarreled with each other saying they would act as presidents.

There are only three vice presidents who have served as presidents over the past six months.

Finances are broken.

After receiving the support from the Korean Sports Association in February of last year to hold the Winter Sports Games, the only competition organized by the Federation is the national team selection in November.

Various national competitions and elementary, middle and high school competitions could not be held.


(▶ Kim Jae-hong, former chairman of the Curling Federation, “No one is in charge”) The



Federation says that it cannot be helped due to Corona 19.

But rivals are struggling to find a way amid even more difficulties.

Host country China, which is challenging the first Olympic medals in history, has appointed manager Lindholm, who led the Swedish women's national team's gold medal in PyeongChang, and is conducting training camps for the national team including candidates.

Even in Europe, where the corona situation is much worse than ours, we have been holding tournaments as consistently as possible since August of last year to help players maintain their performance.

When alliances of other countries were contemplating only the Olympics, our alliance was only thinking of'president election'.

The executive branch split up, proposing different candidates, and after the election, they entered a lawsuit.

The federation's office is a welfare deputy, ignoring responsibility for not holding the elections fairly.

The idea of'If the person I support becomes the chairman, or if not, let's turn it into a management group' is widespread.

If I can't keep my rice bowl, I'll break even someone else's rice bowl.



In the World Curling Federation (WCF) national ranking, our Korean women's team is second in the world.

This is the result of a combination of the silver medal of'Team Kim' at the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics, the bronze medal of'Tim Minji (Chuncheon City Hall)' at the 2019 World Championships, and the achievements of'Curls Day (Gyeonggi Provincial Office)' who won the preliminary victory at the 2020 World Championships.

Athletes fight for the top of the world, with third-class administration and fourth-class politicians holding back.