Chicken King Yoon Hong-geun, BBQ President, seeks re-election to the Ice Federation! Lee Soo-kyung, a former figure of Seoul National University X, is competing for president and CEO of Sambo Motors

Dec 28, 2024

Chicken King'Yoon Hong-geun (69), chairman of Genesis BBQ Group, will seek re-election as chairman of the Korea Skating Union.

According to the Korea Skating Union, Chairman Yoon Hong-geun submitted an expression of his intention to register as a new chairman candidate on the 27th. He expressed his intention to re-elect in time for the 27th, the deadline, as he had to submit an expression of his intention to register a candidate 50 days before the expiration of Hyun's term.

The Korean Skating Union has been sponsored by Samsung Group for more than 20 years until the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, but was designated as a management organization after Samsung withdrew amid various controversies after the Olympics, and Yoon Hong-geun, chairman of the chicken franchise Genesis BBQ Group, ran alone and was elected in the 2020 Ice Federation presidential election. Chairman Yoon served as the head of the Beijing Olympics and delivered a 'Chicken Pension' to 19 medalists, including Choi Min-jeong and Hwang Dae-heon, who can eat free chicken for life until the age of 60, making headlines with 'Chicken King Chairman'.

Lee Soo-kyung, president of Sambo Motors Group

After Lee Soo-kyung (41), a figure skater-turned-CEO who graduated from Seoul National University with a major in physical education last month, announced her bid for the chairman early on, attention was paid to whether Yoon would run or not. I decided to re-elect after much consideration. As a result, the election for the next chairman of the Korea Skating Union has formed a primary structure between corporate CEOs. The next presidential election is scheduled to take place in January next year.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.