A week after his appointment, he applied for a patent for a 'portable ping-pong table'... Lee Seung-won, the first president of KTTP, 'Why' was he so sincere? "My nickname is 'If I do it, I will do it'!" "You're going to make a big difference in the table tennis world." [Yeouido]

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Lee Seung-won, the first president of the Korea Professional Table Tennis Federation (KTTP), has declared a new wind in the table tennis world.

At the inauguration ceremony for the new KTTP president held at the Conrad Seoul Hotel in Yeouido, Seoul, on the 15th, Lee Seung-won said, "It hasn't been that long since I decided to take over as president. "I thought a lot about myself whether I would be a vessel to take charge of this organization because there are things I do," he said honestly.

KTTP, which was launched last year, spent its first year under the current chairman of the committee. On December 18 last year, the board of directors and general meetings approved the appointment of Lee Seung-won as president, and officially elected him. Lee will lead the federation for a three-year term until January 2029.

In his inaugural address, Lee said, "The value of quick judgment, concentration and fair play on a small table tennis table is the sports spirit that this era needs."

"It is a task that our professional table tennis federation has overcome through reform with a new and continuous operating system, such as the gap between daily sports and elite sports and the somewhat sluggish national sports," he said. "We will devote all our capabilities to growing the board through the wider popularization of table tennis."

He, chairman of the Dokdo Love Gas Station Federation, has not had much relationship with the table tennis world. However, he promised to be driven as an entrepreneur who has grown social enterprises into an organization affiliated with more than 1,000 gas stations nationwide.

Governor Lee said, "In fact, I have neglected table tennis because my livelihood is busy. "I'm not good at table tennis," he said with a smile, but added, "Once I start digging, I'm a big seller. I don't think it's important how long you've had a relationship. It is more important how dramatically you lead the organization in the future. I want to show you how I can make a mark in the table tennis world," he said with strength.

The portable ping-pong table, which was recently patented, was an example of its drive. Governor Lee said, "A week after I was appointed president, I applied for a patent for a portable table tennis table. Fold the ping-pong table to make it easier to carry and then go to a camping site or something to play table tennis. We are already making prototypes," he said.

The event was attended by many guests wishing for the development of professional table tennis. People from the National Assembly and sports-related organizations, including Park Soo-hyun, a senior spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Korea, Ha Hyung-joo, chairman of the National Sports Promotion Foundation, and Kim Taek-soo, president of the Jincheon Athletes' Village of the Korea Sports Association, attended.

In addition, officials from each club, including the federation, male and female players, coaching staff, and the front, who formed their first season together last year, gathered together to help Korea's professional table tennis make a new start.

Lee said, "I think people are the most important. It's not just people, it's people you can trust each other. In order to do that, you must keep your word. My nickname in the company is 'do it if you do it'. It may sound absurd and empty when I first tell my employees, but I actually achieved all of my spouting words within a year or two. Likewise, there will surely be tangible changes in our federation," he said.

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