Kim Taek-soo, the new head of Jincheon National Training Center, began his term at 2 p.m. on the 7th with the inauguration ceremony of the 27th national team national athlete village president.
Kim is a certified table tennis legend who won the gold medal in the men's team event at the 1990 Beijing Olympics, 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. It is praised by Chinese experts as `the player who used the most perfect technology' to this day. Chief Kim, who was known as Technician during his active days, is a leader and working-level administrator with extensive field and administrative experience by serving as the national team coach of men's table tennis, technical director of the Korea Table Tennis Association, Gyeonggi director, working vice president of Mirae Asset Securities, and senior vice president of the Asia Table Tennis Association.
He also has a special relationship with the president of the Korean Sports Council in Yoo Seung Min. Chief Kim accompanied Chairman Yoo as a coach at the 2004 Athens Olympics men's singles gold medal scene, and when he was the chairman of the Korea Table Tennis Association, he proved his administrative capability with the success of the competition as vice chairman and secretary-general of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships. It is the second time that a table tennis player has been appointed as the head of the national team's national sports village since 2005-2008, when he was a member of the Taeneung National Training Center. As a player and leader, he has been active in Taereung and Jincheon Training Center for 34 years. He played as a player until 2004 with his first Taegeuk mark in 1987, and served as a men's table tennis coach from 2004 to 2006, men's table tennis coach at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, and men's table tennis coach from 2017 to 2021 just before the Tokyo Olympics. It is the only athlete who penetrates the Jincheon Training Center era even before the remodeling of Taeneung Training Center.
About 200 people, including national athletes, leaders, and officials from the Korea Sports Association, who entered Jincheon Training Center, attended the inauguration ceremony to celebrate the inauguration of the new athlete's village head. Chief Kim Taek-soo plans to make all-out efforts to improve the players' performance ahead of the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics and the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
"We will create an optimal training environment for national team players to perform at their best," said Kim Taek-soo, president of the athletes' village"Based on a culture in which athletes, leaders, and executives trust and respect each other, we will create an open athlete village culture in which everyone grows and communicates together through transparent and fair operation," he said.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
