The Badminton Korea Association also refuted the controversy over the “executive business seat boarding” that has been further highlighted since Ahn Se-young (22), a gold medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, made remarks with additional data.
The association released data on the seat status of executives during this period, saying, “The association’s executives mostly used economy seats on overseas business trips from 2021 when the current executive term began to this Olympics.”
The association said, “In 2018, which was the previous executive period, some executives used business seats when dispatching international competitions, and all vice-chairman or higher at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games were criticized by the media for using business seats.” “Currently, the association’s travel expenses regulations stipulate that the chairman and vice-chairman can use business seats, but from 2021, they are using them additionally for training the team by saving the budget due to the use of general seats by executives.” He added that business seats were used when international organizations such as the Badminton World Federation (BWF) provided air tickets.
The association also disclosed the current status of airline seats that were used during the Paris-Incheon round trip to participate in the Olympics. Eleven executives including Chairman Kim Taek-kyu used regular seats for round trips. Only a part of the coaching staff upgraded seats with their own mileage, while some of the players upgraded seats with support from their teams or with personal mileage. Ahn Se-young is included among the upgraded players with support from his team.
After Ahn Se-young won the gold medal on the 5th, the association was saturated with public opinion as she said, “I was disappointed with the national team. I thought it would be difficult to be with the national team anymore,” and complained about the management and management of the Korean Badminton Association.
After two days of silence in Paris, Ahn explained about her captains by attaching long documents on Sunday when the Korean team returned home. The Korean team wants to go with Ahn, expressing its determination to solve the problem by accurately grasping where she suffered and what she wanted.
In the explanatory materials released by the association, there are quite a few things that contradict Ahn’s claim. Since then, Ahn has remained silent. Before boarding the plane from Paris, Ahn said that it was actually the association’s order not to attend the medalists’ press conference held a day after he made his decision, saying, “The association told me to stay still and not say anything,” but at the airport, he said, “I will not talk much now. I will talk to you later.” On Sunday, he apologized to the athletes who are participating in the Olympics and repeatedly said, “I will talk to them all later.”
However, after Ahn’s remarks, controversy over executives’ business seats in the past began to be mentioned again, and speculation was raised in connection with Ahn’s determined remarks that the players picked up the economy and the executives took the business seats in this competition. As rumors spread out of control as it was used for media reports, the association even explained, “There are parts that are misrepresented.”
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