The Hyundai Motor Group, the president of the Korea Archery Association, presented an unprecedented reward to the players of the archery team who harvested four gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics.
Hyundai Motor Group and Korea Archery Association held the '2020 Tokyo Olympics Korea Archery Team Welcome Party' today (10th) in an 'on-tact' method using an online video conferencing platform, and invited players, leaders, standing troops, and association employees to attend. encouraged and rewarded.
The total amount of the bounty was not disclosed, but it is said to be the largest ever, which is more than the 2.5 billion won at the Rio Olympics five years ago, when four gold medals were won.
The individual gold medal was 300 million won and the team gold medal was 200 million won, up 100 million won and 50 million won respectively from the Rio Olympics.
Ansan (Gwangju Women's University), who swept gold medals in the individual, mixed and women's team events, received 700 million won, and Kim Je-deok (Gyeongbuk Il High), who won the mixed and men's team events, received 400 million won.
The winning members of the men's and women's team event are Jinhyeok Oh (Hyundai Steel), Woojin Kim (Cheongju City Hall), Chaeyoung Kang (Hyundai Mobis), and Minhee Jang (Incheon University) receive 200 million won each.
Hyundai Motor Group also presented one of the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV 6, and Genesis GV70 to six players, and paid a reward to the leader, support staff, and association executives and staff according to their contribution and presented a travel ticket to Jeju Island.
Hyundai Motor Group has set a record that will remain in the history of archery in the world, such as 9 consecutive women's team victories, 2 men's team victories, the first gold medal in the mixed event, and the first three gold medals in the Korean Summer Games, despite difficult circumstances, such as the postponement of the Olympics for a year due to the Corona 19. He explained that the reward was set in consideration of that.
In his welcome speech, Chairman Chung Eui-sun said, “Korea’s archery has been challenging itself to a higher place without hesitation, even though it has risen to the top based on the principle of transparent association operation and fair selection of players. I will do my best to support you,” he said.
Ansan said, "I think I got lucky because Chairman Jung said 'good luck' in the morning of the individual exhibition.
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