 |
| 2025 Youth Sports Hanmadang Table Tennis Competition was held at Daegu Bible Migwang Sporex on the 15th. The president of the Korea Sports Council, Yoo Seung Min, is facing off against Park Soo-ha, a promising table tennis player in Daesil Elementary School. Daegu = Reporter Huh Sang-wook's wook@sportschosun.com |
|
 |
| Opening of the National Assembly Style Committee's Subcommittee on Examining the Sports and Tourism Act |
|
 |
| Minister Choi Hwi-young explaining the proposal for the 2026 budget plan |
|
The new budget of KRW 40 billion for the "1 Student 1 Sports Promotion Project" actively promoted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Sports Council passed the National Assembly's Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee on the 17th.
The government voted on the 2026 budget at a Cabinet meeting on Sept. 29. The budget bill will be finalized in December after the National Assembly's standing committee and the Special Committee on Budget and Accounts review the reduction and increase. In the era of AI, super-aging, population disappearance, and polarization, the sports community advocated that sports are an irreplaceable future growth engine, but it was not properly reflected in the first budget of the Lee Jae-myung administration. Of the total 9.56 trillion won in culture and arts, the culture and arts budget was 4.5405 trillion won, an increase of 554.8 billion won (13.9%) from the previous year (3.9857 trillion won), but the sports budget was 1.6795 trillion won, up 5.6 billion won and only 0.3% from the previous year's 1.6739 trillion won. In fact, the sentiment in the sports world is that it is no different from a reduction.
The Ministry of Strategy and Finance restructured spending by up to 27 trillion won in the process of drawing up the 2026 budget, and the sports budget was also drastically cut as the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's budget of 552.263 billion won was restructured. Although the national task of 'sports enjoyed by all' was set as a national task, the budgets for sports for all and school sports were drastically reduced.
 |
| Source=Ministry of Strategy and Finance |
|
Of this year's total budget of 279 billion won for the Korea Sports Association, the budget for all sports was 41 billion won, down 9.56 billion won from the previous year. At the site, 95.7% of parents should be enlarged "'Exciting Weekend Sports School Program Budget'14.09 billion won was completely cut from next year's budget on the grounds that it was a 'duplex project'. Since 2014, the entire program, in which teenagers have experienced sports such as horseback riding, climbing, swimming, fencing, and skiing from professional instructors inside and outside the school, has been blown away, and Rep. Lim Oh-kyung of the National Assembly, the Culture Committee, the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism and the Korean Sports Council have put their heads together for future generations of sports. In order to increase the participation rate of youth sports activities, a new increase of '40 billion KRW' was promoted, reflecting the "1 student 1 sports supply project". On the 17th, the National Assembly's stylistic committee decided on the 2026 budget and fund management plan, increasing the amount by KRW 40 billion to reflect the project of '1 Student Sports Promotion'" he said.
 |
| 2025 Youth Sports Hanmadang Table Tennis Competition was held at Daegu Bible Migwang Sporex on the 15th. The president of the Korea Sports Council, Yoo Seung Min, is facing off against a student who clapped at the beginning of the competition. Daegu = Reporter Huh Sang-wook's wook@sportschosun.com |
|
 |
| 2025 Youth Sports Hanmadang Table Tennis Competition was held at Daegu Bible Migwang Sporex on the 15th. The president of the Korea Sports Council, Yoo Seung Min, is facing off against a student who clapped at the beginning of the competition. Daegu = Reporter Huh Sang-wook's wook@sportschosun.com |
|
The promotion of 'one-person-one-sport within the school' is a campaign promise made by Chairman of the Korean Sports Council Kim Yoo Seung Min and contains the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's strong will to revitalize school sports. 'Expanding opportunities for physical education to develop lifelong sports participation habits and cultivate holistic competencies beyond simple sports experiences, support leaders, supplies, classes, and programs for one student's one sports, and support classes by level such as basic and advanced classes' is an idea. It is a budget to support 2,500 schools (25 percent of 9,500 elementary, middle and high schools nationwide), worth 15 million won per school.
An official from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said "Although the preliminary committee's deliberation remains, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is making efforts to reflect the budget of "1 student, 1 sport" as its top priority." The will of the KOC is also firm. Chairman of the Korean Sports Council Yoo Seung Min said, `Children's sports activities should be provided within public education. In the AI era, education to develop lifelong exercise habits and health habits is really important. "Education that allows all students to learn the sports they want after school, and anyone after graduating from school can naturally play a sport." "I'm running around the National Assembly every day to reflect the new budget. These days, the number one dream of becoming an elementary school student is said to be an athlete. While all students enjoy sports to their heart's content, they can create a win-win and virtuous cycle of sports clubs in the sports department and school sports clubs. Now, the health of Korea's youth sports and future generations depends on the decision of the Budget and Accounts Committee.
Reporter Jeon Young-ji sky4us@sportschosun.com
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
