Kim Nam-i, Secretary-General of the Donghae Legend, X Kim Taek-soo, Player Village President, will meet the expectations of athletes
Mar 27, 2025
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The Korea Sports Council, led by new chairman Yoo Seung Min, held its first board meeting at the Grand Hyatt Seoul Hotel on the afternoon of the 27th and appointed Kim Nam-mi, former vice chairman of the International Biathlon Federation, as the secretary-general, and Kim Taek-soo, former general manager of Mirae Asset Securities' table tennis team, as the head of Jincheon National Training Center.
The era of the first female secretary-general in the 105-year history of the Korean Sports Council has opened. The new president, Kim Nam-i, is a former ski national team member who has served as an athlete, leader, administrator, and international sports diplomat for 40 years from participating in the first Winter Sports Festival in 1978 to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. After serving as the secretary general of the Sports Human Resources Development Foundation after serving as a member of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, vice chairman of the Korea Triathlon Association, and director of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled, he became the first Asian woman to serve as vice chairman of the International Biathlon Federation (IBU) for three consecutive terms in recognition of his outstanding global communication skills and leadership. As a representative female athlete and sports administrator with leadership that encompasses policy planning and organizational operation, field and administration, 'Women, Winter, Athletes' is an unconventional personnel appointment that reflects the philosophy and spirit of the times of Yoo Seung Min, the president of the Korea Sports Council, who uses professionalism as the keyword.
Kim Taek-soo, the new head of the Jincheon National Team, is a legendary men's table tennis player. He has gained field and administrative experience throughout his career as a national table tennis team coach, working vice president of the Korea Table Tennis Association, general manager of Mirae Asset Securities Table Tennis Team, and senior vice president of the Asian Table Tennis Union (ATTU). As a world-class player and leader who won the gold medal in the men's team event at the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, the bronze medal in men's singles at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and the gold medal in men's singles at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games, he has eaten in Taeneung and Jincheon athletes' village for 24 years. He proved his administrative capabilities by accompanying Chairman Yoo Seung Min as a coach at the Athens Olympics gold medal scene, as a working vice-president when he was chairman of the Korea Table Tennis Association, and secretary-general of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships.
At the board meeting, President Yoo introduced President Kim Nam-i as the first female secretary-general in 105 years, a first-generation female athlete with experience in administration and international sports diplomacy, and Chief Kim Taek-soo as a legend without explanation.
The Sports Human Resources Development Foundation, which was a love room and study room for athletes in 2015, was suddenly disbanded and President Kim, who left Korea shortly after the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, personally expressed his feelings to athletes for the first time in seven years. "I've always introduced myself as a skier, Kim Nam-i, but I'm here to include all the athletes." It's an honor and I came with a great sense of responsibility." "When Chairman Yoo first proposed the post of secretary-general, it was not an easy choice to come back after organizing his life in Germany within a few days."```````````````````````````````````````. "There are many shortcomings, but if you help me together, I think there will be good results for the development of athletes and the Korean Sports Council," he said.
Chief Kim Taek-soo said, `We have high expectations for changes in athletes. At the center of it is the national team's village"The responsibility is heavy, but I think the president's appointment as the head of the village means that he should impress and delight the people through intense and powerful training and beyond-the-limit training as he did in the 2004 Athens Olympics gold medal for table tennis.", referring to the 2004 Athens Olympics priest's kite. "We will create a culture of respect for each other based on family-like trust in the athletes' village." I will give my players freedom, but I will lead the best performance in the world as strong as I can perform." "In addition, we will open the athletes' village to dreamers, sports lovers, and the people to create a culture with Jincheon athletes' village." I will do my best to meet the expectations with 24 years of experience and capabilities as a player and leader"I promised.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
