Football Association Presidential Election: Minister Urges Chung Mong-gyu to Resign Amid Public Opinion Concerns

Focusing on the Football Association presidential election in January next year
In fact, a request to resign to “consider public opinion”

Culture, Sports and Tourism Minister Yoo In-chon said of Korea Football Association President Chung Mong-gyu, “I think it is honorable for him to decide his own course of action.” It has been interpreted as a request for President Chung, who is likely to run for a fourth term, to resign.

Minister Yoo said on CBS Radio’s ‘Kim Hyun-jung’s News Show’ on the 20th, “(Chairman Chung) is currently seeking a fourth term, but when I listen to public opinion these days , I think it would be honorable for him (Chairman Chung). ) to decide his own course “I hear it,” he said.

President Chung, who was elected as the 52nd President of the Korea Football Association in 2013, was re-elected in 2016 and succeeded for a third term in 2021. If Chairman Chung runs the election again as president of the Korea Football Association in January next year, when his third term ends, and if he succeeds in his fourth term, the number of consecutive terms will be three. According to the Articles of Association of the Korea Football Association, the term of office of the president is four years and can be reappointed once. However, if the Sports Opportunity Committee of the Korea Sports Council passes consideration, an exception to the limit on the number of consecutive terms may be recognized.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which has been investigating the Korea Football Association since July, plans to announce the results of the investigation at the end of this month. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is looking into procedural issues in the current appointment of Hong Myung-bo, coach of the national football team, and suspicions that he opened an Association Korean soccer “negative account” worth tens of billions of won at its bank without permission from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.