43-year-old Yoo Seung Min, another unexpected drama...Beat Lee Ki-heung to win the election of the president of the Korea Sports Council.

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Yoo Seung Min, a former table tennis gold medalist-turned-administrator, has been "surprisingly elected" as the 42nd chairman of the Korea Sports Council.

Chairman Lee Ki-heung, who boasted an active premium, was blocked from serving in the third term.

This is reporter Cho Eun-ji.

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"Announcement of the Yoo Seung Min candidate as the president-elect."In defiance of the expectation that

{Chairman Lee Ki-heung anyway', former president of the Korea Table Tennis Association Kim Yoo Seung Min was elected as the sports president of Korea.

Out of a total of 1,209 votes, Yoo Seung Min won a bouquet of flowers with 417 votes and 34.5% of the votes.

Chairman Lee Ki-heung, who challenged for the third term, came in second with 379 votes, followed by Kang Tae-sun, chairman of the Seoul Sports Council, with 215 votes.

Thanks to the strong support of the incumbent chairman, Yoo overcame the competition of the largest number of six people ever, and he gathered the athletes' desire for change.

Following the Great Wall of China, the Olympic gold medal that defeated Wang Hao of China, and the election of the IOC athletes commissioner, which entered late, he launched another "friendly rebellion."

[Yoo Seung Min / President-elect of the Korea Sports Council: I tried hard until the end because I believed in my sincerity. I think we need to think a lot about how to quickly solve what we need to do in the future, rather than immediately rejoicing.

During the campaign, he showed sincerity with "customized videos" that directly experienced 68 sports, and at the same time, he was able to spread his 43-year-old youth and identity as an athlete.

President-elect Yoo Seung Min, who made close pledges such as securing independence of sports organizations and strengthening the compensation system, emphasized that he would run for the next four years, break down.

[Yoo Seung Min / President-elect of the Korea Sports Council: Nothing is more important than a living. We will turn your fear and anxiety into hope and excitement in the future.]

Even in the current IOC member's sign, Chairman Lee Ki-heung's eight-year term in office, which failed to shake off the bad news of "judicial risk," has ended, and the era of Yoo Seung Min has now come to an end.

I'm Jo Eun Ji of YTN.

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: Kwak Young-joo