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WTF Canada Officials
Quit
Posted January 19,
2004
http://news.ladytkd.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=6496&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Ken Chung:
Posted from:
LadyTKD on
Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 08:35 AM
Does everyone remember Ken Chung,
the Canadian president for whom Sang Lee used our Junior Olympics to
stump for PATU President?
It is official - Ken Chung has resigned. No one knows why, but one
could speculate that it may have to do with all the turmoil in the WTF
today, as well as those speculations that Sang Lee is considering
withdrawing his support of Ken Chung for PATU president and Sang Lee
plans to run himself.
Interesting timing.
... more thoughts on this topic at OE Players...
http://oeplayers.oeplayers.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2527&sid=3c5708693360605e0925d3e838d9603d
http://oeplayers.oeplayers.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=2576&sid=3c5708693360605e0925d3e838d9603d
John Kim, son
of Kim Un-yong released after 7 months custody
http://www.geocities.com/armtkd/december2003.htm
12.23.2003 - The son of the IOC vice-president Kim
Un-Yong - John Kim said in an interview with The Associated Press that
prosecutors in his homeland had investigated him on suspicion of
illegally receiving more than one billion Korean won (US$837,000) from
an official of the Korea Taekwondo Association, which his father had
chaired until last year. Kim said he was innocent and that the
investigators found no wrong doing. Kim said US$200,000 of the money was
an investment his friends made in a company that he owned, and the rest
of the money he earned from selling a piece of land. Kim also said that
a recent police raid at his father's office in South Korea, which
reportedly uncovered US$1.5 million worth of foreign currency stashed in
his private safe, was "politically motivated". "We are not minors. I am
44 years old, I have run companies since I was 32 years-old, I have real
estate, I have buildings, I have homes," Kim said. "What? Do I have to
be penniless? Many people have many millions of bucks in a safe deposit
box."
A week ago, a Bulgarian court released Kim from custody,
where he had spent the past 7 months, pending extradition to the US,
where he had been indicted in connection with the Salt Lake City Olympic
bribery scandal. The court in Sofia dismissed the extradition case last
Wednesday after US prosecutors dropped the charges against Kim. Kim said
he considered the US allegations against him unfounded and his arrest in
Bulgaria illegal. He said he was still considering plans to sue the US
in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, and Bulgaria in the
European Human Rights Court in Strasbourg, France, to clear his name.
KTA Officials Indicted
Posted December 5, 2003
http://www.geocities.com/armtkd/index.htm
Taekwondo Association Officials Indicted
The Seoul District Prosecutor's Office on Friday indicted Koo Cheon-seo,
president of the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA), on charges of
obstructing his rival in the election campaign last year for the top
post of the taekwondo-governing body in South Korea. The 53-year-old Koo
is accused of mobilizing gangsters to prevent supporters for the other
side from participating in the vote on Feb. 5 and paying bribes to
high-ranking KTA officials. Nine others have also been indicted for
disturbing the election process. Prosecutors said Koo had won all votes
from 17 delegates, but other
eligible voters could not enter the polling place at a hotel in Seoul
because around 300 gangsters were blocking the door. Koo was to serve
the remaining three years of Kim Un-yong's term after the former
president himself was forced to step down in the face of growing dispute
within local taekwondo circles. Kim resigned in November 2001 to settle
the conflicts that surfaced at April's qualifying tournament for the
national taekwondo team. At the time, a large number of competitors and
coaches raised concern that Kim's relatives were among the operational
staff and gave favored treatment to certain competitors. The KTA had
been locked in internal strife over its presidency since Kim's
resignation. Ahead of the vote, there was a struggle between reformists
and gang-related KTA officials.
The Korea Times ~
http://times.hankooki.com/
AND.... at the BBC News...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3293927.stm
S Korea Taekwondo chief held
The head of South Korea's Taekwondo Association has been arrested on
charges of rigging his election in February last year, and bribing
fellow officials. Prosecutors have indicted Koo Chun-seo, accusing him
of using 300 "gangsters and taekwondo experts" to stop rivals attending
the vote. Mr Koo was unanimously elected chairman of the martial arts
association by the 17
delegates who were able to attend. He was also accused of paying over
$20,000 to two association officials ahead of the vote. Mr Koo was
arrested and charged along with Lee Seng-wan, an adviser to the
association, who was once in prison for organising the disruption of an
opposition political rally in 1987. The South Korean Taekwondo
Association has been dogged by scandal in recent years. Mr Koo, a former
South Korean MP, took over after his predecessor, Kim Un-yong, was
forced out after three decades in the job, over allegations of
corruption. Taekwondo is an Olympic sport which originated on the Korean
peninsula. The South Korean army uses it to train soldiers, and parents
send their children to classes, believing that it is a
character-building exercise which teaches discipline and patriotism.
New Zealand WTF Suspended
http://www.geocities.com/armtkd/index.htm
11.21.2003 - The New Zealand TKD Federation (NZTF) which was suspended
as a member of the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) on Nov 10, 1999,
is still recognized by WTF (the WTF official site mentions NZTF as a WTF
member organization). The reason of suspending the NZTF was that TKD had
been split in two by a bitter dispute between the New Zealand TKD
Federation (NZTF) and the TKD Union of New Zealand (TUNZ), who both
claim they represent the majority of participants in the sport in this
country. Both organizations state they share the goal of a unified TKD
and had agreed to the NZOC taking the role of an independent facilitator
to help bring this to fruition. Unfortunately the NZTF has withdrawn
from this agreement, leaving the NZOC with little option but to suspend
them. Kum Hong Lee, Secretary General of the WTF wrote to the NZOC in
August 1999 stating, "we would like to make it clear herewith that the
WTF will respect any decision to be made by your National Olympic
Committee for re-unification of TKD based upon the WTF Rules and
Regulations." However, in contrary to that letter WTF still recognizes
NZTF (See
WTf
Official web site - members). Similarly the IOC stated in
correspondence in that, "we believe that the NZOC has as a valid action,
the option to suspend the National Federation for TKD until a suitable
solution can be determined with all parties involved."
http://www.geocities.com/armtkd/index.htm
John Kim, son
of Kim Un-Yong in hot water
11.19.2003 - A New Jersey businessman testified Tuesday
that he received a $20,000 contract for Olympic consulting duties he
never performed, then paid the same amount to a Salt Lake businessman
who hired the son of an influential International Olympic Committee
delegate. Korean immigrant Ted S. Kang, owner of New Jersey company said
that after he got the bid money, he wrote a $20,000 check to Salt Lake
telecommunications executive David Simmons, who earlier testified it was
one of a series of disguised reimbursements he got for hiring John Kim,
son of IOC vice president Kim Un-yong of South Korea.
Lelli said Simmons "made up" a job for Kim so he could qualify for a
green card and permanent U.S. residency. The government contends it was
a way Welch could sway Kim Un-yong, who still is an influential IOC
official.
The Daily Herald
United States
Taekwondo Union (WTF) Faces Expulsion
Posted October 12, 2003
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