"Straight line system introduced yet?"→ What's wrong with the June Reimagining?' Expanding the foundation for participation of Yoo Seung-min's Yoo Seung Min sportsmen and institutional transformation to increase accountability... "Planning improvement plans"

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The Korea Sports Association (Chairman Yoo Seung Min) discussed the revision of the articles of association regarding the expansion of electors at the 2026 general meeting of the regular congress of representatives held on February 27.

The Korea Sports Association said, "Most of the delegates agreed on the necessity and direction of introducing the direct election system, but some delegates requested additional deliberation, so they decided to re-apply to the extraordinary general meeting in June after going through related procedures."

"At this general meeting, delegates were very interested in improving the electoral system and made various remarks. Most of them affirmed the big framework of introducing a direct election system to increase fairness and representation of the electoral system, but they suggested that more detailed explanations and sufficient discussions were needed on the criteria for forming electors, how to expand member organizations, and whether to change the system step by step.

The main content of the election system improvement plan, including the introduction of a direct election system by the Korea Sports Association, is to expand the scope of participation of members of member organizations (executives, leaders, athletes, etc.) with certain requirements, away from the existing limited electoral group-centered structure. Through this, the key purpose is to strengthen the representativeness of the election and improve it to a structure that reflects the will of field athletes more widely.

In addition, the Korea Sports Association said, "We are discussing ways to implement and supplement step-by-step measures to minimize confusion on-site due to rapid system changes in the application of member organizations," adding, "We are continuing an open and step-by-step discussion process under the recognition that improving the election system is not a simple change in method but a structural reorganization to strengthen transparency and democracy in sports governance."

Earlier, the Korea Sports Association held a discussion on improving the election system for sports organizations at the Taeneung Training Center in September last year, and has been explaining and collecting opinions in various ways, such as sending an official notice to improve the plan (2 times), briefing sessions for executives and employees of member organizations (7 times), holding public hearings at the National Assembly, and posting YouTube discussion videos.

In the future, the Korean Sports Council will officially collect detailed opinions from member organizations in March and continue discussions with delegates in various ways, including meetings and briefing sessions from April to May. In particular, during the National Sports Festival (April) and the National Youth Sports Festival (May), it plans to provide a sufficient forum for public debate by holding public hearings at the same time.

"The introduction of the direct election system is an institutional transformation to expand the foundation for participation of athletes and increase accountability," Chairman Yoo Seung Min said. "We will come up with an improvement plan that secures the acceptability of the site based on sufficient opinion collection and deliberation."

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