Sports Council strengthens effectiveness of disciplinary retrial… Improvement of the review system for executive reappointment

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-ah = The Korea Sports Council has begun to revise its systems, including disciplinary action and reappointment of executives, to increase fairness and transparency in the sports world.

The Sports Association announced that it held a Sports Fair Committee meeting on the 8th to deliberate and decide on amendments to related regulations to strengthen the disciplinary review function, specify disciplinary procedures for executives of sports organizations, establish standards for handling misconduct in hiring, and improve standards and methods for reviewing executive reappointment.

The revised bill is scheduled to be submitted to the Board of Directors for final deliberation and resolution on the 28th.

Regarding this revision of the regulations, the Sports Association explained, "It is an extension of the changes to restore trust and fair operation of the sports community, which President Yoo Seung-min has presented as a major reform task since taking office. We focused on specifying institutional standards so that disciplinary action can be carried out fairly, recruitment can be transparent, and executive reappointment can be done objectively."

First, the Sports Council decided to increase the effectiveness of disciplinary retrials.

Under the current regulations, even if there was a problem with the first-trial disciplinary decision, there were restrictions on the second-trial judgment depending on whether or not a retrial was requested. However, the related regulations were supplemented to allow the Sports Fair Committee to re-determine the appropriateness of the disciplinary action if the first-trial decision was significantly unfair or illegal.

Regarding the disciplinary procedures for executives of sports organizations, in order to increase consistency and transparency, the procedures from reporting and investigation to deliberation and resolution and the obligations of related organizations were specifically established.

Regarding hiring misconduct, the relevant recommendations of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission were reflected and standards for disposition based on the type and degree of misconduct were specified.

The criteria for reviewing executive reappointment have been improved to be more objective.

We plan to reorganize the evaluation standards and methods to reasonably evaluate job performance and responsibility, and apply them starting from the deliberation of reappointment in the executive election that will be held from January 1 next year.

The Korea Sports Council said, “We plan to establish an institutional foundation for fair standards to function properly in the field and implement responsible sports administration that increases public trust in the sports world.”