The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said, "Cutting the cost of improving performance is not a conflict with the Korean Sports Council... The total amount of related budget will increase by KRW 6.9 billion."

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The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister Choi Hwi-young) explained that the reduction in performance improvement costs was not due to conflict with the Korean Sports Association (Chairman Yoo Seung Min).

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism issued an explanatory document on an article titled "The AG is being held, why did it come to an unexpected end?" and "The reduction of the performance improvement cost in 2026 is not due to conflict with the Korean Sports and Olympic Committee, but due to 'insufficient' as a result of self-evaluation of financial projects conducted from January to May 2025," and added, "The performance improvement cost for sports organizations among the 'support of sports organizations and local sports associations' projects was reduced by 2.27 billion won (27.7%) due to inappropriate performance indicators."

For reference, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism added that the budget given to the Korean Sports Council increased by 65.3 billion won (23.4%) from about 279.7 billion won in 2025 to about 345 billion won in 2026.

In addition, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said, "In addition to the cost of improving performance, ▶ fostering preliminary national team members (new, 3.04 billion won) ▶ fostering strategic team (8.1 billion won, +3.1 billion won from the previous year) ▶ support for training of national team members (new, 1.5 billion won, same as the previous year) ▶ support for participation in international competitions ( 14.54 billion won, + 2.98 billion won from the previous year), etc. The total budget for 2026 was 59.14 billion won, up 6.85 billion won from the previous year."

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said, "We will do our best to support our players to participate in international competitions, including the Asian Games, such as support necessary to improve the performance of unpopular sports."

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