Rep. Woo Saeng-soon Legend Lim Oh-kyung's culture and arts budget 13.9% ↑ VS Sports budget for public health increased by 0.3% Does this make sense
Oct 27, 2025
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Rep. Lim pointed out that the sports budget increased by 0.3% in the parliamentary audit of major sports organizations of the National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee on the 27th compared to the remarkable increase in the culture and tourism budget.
The first budget plan for the Lee Jae-myung government in 2026 is worth 728 trillion won. It increased by 54.7 trillion won and 8.1 percent from this year. After the inauguration of the Lee Jae-myung administration, the sports community advocated that sports are an irreplaceable future growth engine in the era of AI, super-aging, population disappearance, and polarization, but the importance of sports was not largely reflected in the budget bill. Out of a total of 9.56 trillion won in cultural finances (comprehensive culture, sports, tourism, and national heritage budgets within the government, including the Ministry of Culture, Science and Technology, the Ministry of Culture, and the Heritage Administration), the culture and arts budget was 4.54 trillion won, an increase of 554.8 billion won (13.9%) from the previous year (3.9857 trillion won). The tourism budget also increased by 127.3 billion won (9.4%) from 1.347.7 trillion won to 1.475 trillion won. On the other hand, the sports budget was KRW 1.6795 trillion, up only KRW 5.6 billion from KRW 1.6739 trillion last year, and up only 0.3%.
Of the 279 billion won sports budget, the sports for all was cut by 9.56 billion won year-on-year to 41 billion won, and the sports promotion budget was also cut from 583 million won this year to 379 million won next year. At the site, 95.7% of parents should be enlarged "Exciting Weekend Sports School Program Budget"14.09 billion won, which was enthusiastically responded, was completely cut from next year's budget because it was a duplicate project after the transfer of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism this year."
Rep. Lim pointed this out correctly. "The most important thing for the people as well as for everyone here is health. If you lose your health, it's no use. According to the budget plan, contents rose 26.5%, culture and arts 13.9%, and tourism rose 9.5%, but the sports budget increased less than 0.3%. What are you doing?" he said strongly.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
