The Korea Professional Football Federation wins the 2025 Chosun Ilbo Social Contribution Award in the Sports Promotion category
Mar 27, 2025
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The Chosun Ilbo Social Contribution Awards is the nation's largest social contribution award ceremony organized by the Digital Chosun Ilbo and sponsored by the Chosun Ilbo, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Shared Growth Committee. There are a total of 15 award categories, including sports promotion, academic education, social welfare, volunteer work, and community development. This year's award ceremony was held at the Diamond Hall of the Koreana Hotel on the 27th.
The federation became the winner of the award in recognition of the achievements of the social contribution program 'K League Futures', which provides education, culture, and environment for children to enjoy and learn soccer. The typical activities of 'K League Futures' are the operation of children's soccer classes visiting schools, the development of soccer textbooks and programs, and the holding of soccer festivals.
Starting with the Federation's business agreement with the Ministry of Education in November 2023, the Federation conducted various activities to develop children's soccer class programs and revitalize school sports. Based on this, from November 2024 to February 2025, elementary schools in the metropolitan area operated Children's Soccer Classroom and conducted about 300 education sessions to provide 5,500 elementary school students with an opportunity to experience soccer.
In particular, 'K League Futures' participated in K League retired players as instructors, contributing to job creation and job and career design for retired players, and children received high-quality education with abundant experience and expertise.
In addition, 'K League Futures' developed a customized online soccer textbook program systematically classified from the lower grades of elementary school to the upper grades and distributed it to all K League clubs, and produced basic training videos in which former soccer player Cho Won-hee participated and provides them for free on K League official YouTube.
Finally, in March 2024, it held a 'Football Festival with K-League players' participation, contributing to the expansion of the soccer base, with more than 1,000 elementary school students participating.
On the other hand, a federation official said, "We are very meaningful in recognition of the efforts made to create an environment where children can access and enjoy soccer through K League Futures." In the future, we will do our best to help more children grow healthy and spread the soccer culture widely through soccer. We will also continue to work to provide new opportunities for retired athletes."
Reporter Yoon Jin-man yoonjinman@sportschosun.com
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
