1985 was elected president of the General Federation of International Sports Organizations;
1992 was elected vice-president of the international Olympic Committee;
From 65438 to 0993, he became the president of Korean Sports Association and the president of Korean Olympic Committee.
In addition, Un-yong Kim is an outstanding diplomat, who served as the counsellor of Korean embassies in Britain and some American countries. Un-yong Kim's prison record "time"
June, 5438+February, 2003, an anonymous letter was sent to the South Korean Procuratorate to sue Un-yong Kim.
On June 5438+February 65438+February, 2003, the South Korean Procuratorate arrested Lee, a former member of the Korean Olympic Committee. Li is suspected of bribing 65.438+300 million won (about 654.38+0.65438+0 million US dollars).
After Li was arrested, South Korean prosecutors investigated him and found property equivalent to 7.6 billion won in his house and bank account.
On February 22, 2003, 65438, Un-yong Kim issued a statement saying that "in order to improve the status of Korean sports and safeguard the interests of South Korea in the international sports arena, some unreasonable things have to be done".
On February 26th, 2003, 65438, Un-yong Kim surrendered himself to the procuratorate and admitted to misappropriating some public funds.
On June 65438+1October 65438+March 2004, the Seoul District Prosecutor's Office decided to formally arrest Un-yong Kim. Just before the arrest warrant was issued, Un-yong Kim suddenly fainted and was taken to the hospital. This change forced the South Korean police to suspend the arrest.
On June 28th, 2004, Un-yong Kim, who was being treated in the hospital, was arrested and imprisoned by the South Korean Procuratorate on charges of "fraud and dereliction of duty to collect money" and "violation of the foreign exchange control law". (Qiu Ji) Seoul won the Olympic bid successfully, and he contributed half. Un-yong Kim, 73, is a legend in Korean sports. He graduated from Yonsei University in Korea in his early years and then studied at Washington University in the United States. He is proficient in English, French, Spanish and Japanese. He used to be one of the top ten taekwondo players.
Un-yong Kim's first half life can be described as magnanimous. At the age of 30, he became the secretary of the chief of national defense, and his career has flourished since then. Un-yong Kim likes Taekwondo very much. He is a famous ten-stage Taekwondo master in Korean sports, and has played gold and silver cards in many major competitions.
In the early 1980s, the South Korean government decided to bid for the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. Un-yong Kim has made great contributions to South Korea's successful bid for and hosting of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, and Un-yong Kim's reputation in sports in South Korea and even in Asia has also gained from this.
To the top.
With the strong support of Asian countries, Un-yong Kim was successfully elected as the vice president of the International Olympic Committee on 1992. From 65438 to 0993, he became the president of the Korean Sports Association and the president of the Korean Olympic Committee, and became a heavyweight in Asian sports. In the following 10 years, Un-yong Kim played a great role in improving the influence of Korean sports on the international stage. Thanks to his efforts, Taekwondo, the quintessence of South Korea, finally became an official Olympic event in 2000, fulfilling a Korean dream. It is worth mentioning that it was under his mediation that Korean and Korean athletes walked into the venue hand in hand at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, which wrote an epoch-making page for the North-South sports exchange on the Korean Peninsula.
Un-yong Kim's ability and achievements have been recognized by the international sports community. In 2003, the famous German Sports Weekly selected "100 the most influential person in the world sports", and Un-yong Kim ranked fourth. With the exposure of the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics scandal, Un-yong Kim's reputation went from bad to worse. During Salt Lake City's bid to host the 2002 Winter Olympics, Un-yong Kim's son John King was applying for a green card in the United States. Therefore, the Salt Lake City Bid Committee arranged a "fake" job for John King in Utah Communication Committee and paid him a considerable salary, which enabled John King to successfully pass the examination of the US government and obtain the right of abode in the United States. This arrangement for relatives of IOC members to work in the United States or enjoy American university scholarships was one of the methods used by the Salt Lake City Bid Committee to bribe IOC members at that time.
After the bribery scandal in Salt Lake City was exposed, 65,438+00 IOC members resigned. Un-yong Kim claimed that he knew nothing about it and got away with it. However, he still received the "most severe" condemnation from the IOC Ethics Committee. Last May, John King was also arrested by Interpol on suspicion of fraud and lying to the FBI. Public bribery in elections Keywords: election scandal
Un-yong Kim participated in the 200 1 election of the new president of the International Olympic Committee despite the scandal of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. When talking about the embarrassing Salt Lake City Winter Olympics scandal, Un-yong Kim confidently said: "The scandal has become history, and the International Olympic Committee should look forward." Ironically, however, Un-yong Kim once again exposed the scandal of "election bribery" in the election campaign. In his campaign platform, he promised to provide each IOC member with $50,000 a year. Previously, IOC members were "volunteers" and the IOC only paid their round-trip travel expenses and a small amount of fees. But eventually lost to Rogge. Despite repeated setbacks in international sports, no one can shake Un-yong Kim's position in Korean sports. However, in 2003, Un-yong Kim failed to properly handle the relationship between running for re-election as vice-president of the International Olympic Committee and helping Pyeongchang, South Korea to bid for the 20 10 Winter Olympics, which caused strong dissatisfaction in South Korea.
In July 2003, Pyeongchang, gangwon, South Korea and Vancouver, Canada jointly bid for the 20 10 Winter Olympics. At that time, it was also the vice-presidential election of the International Olympic Committee. The Korean Olympic Committee hopes that Un-yong Kim will withdraw from the vice-presidential election of the Olympic Committee for the sake of national interests. The tacit "law of balance" within the Olympic Committee means that if Un-yong Kim is re-elected, Pyeongchang will most likely lose the right to host the 20 10 Winter Olympics, because the IOC cannot "take care" of Asia twice at the same time. But Un-yong Kim didn't want to. As a result, Un-yong Kim was re-elected, but Pyeongchang narrowly beat Vancouver by three votes.
Once Un-yong Kim's selfish practices were disclosed, they were immediately bombarded by the Korean media. South Korea's National Assembly even passed a resolution, demanding that Un-yong Kim resign from major public offices in South Korea, including parliamentarians, before midnight on July 3 1 last year. But Un-yong Kim rejected the resolution of the South Korean National Assembly. An anonymous letter shattered the "tumbler"
After the event of "Pyeongchang's Olympic bid", it still stands, but at this time, Un-yong Kim is in danger. In June 5438+last February, an anonymous letter finally dealt a fatal blow to Un-yong Kim, known as the "tumbler".
This anonymous letter accuses Un-yong Kim of misappropriating 3.8 billion won (1 USD, about 1.200 won) in the past four years. He is also suspected of taking advantage of the opportunity of selecting members of the Korean Olympic Committee, accepting 530 million won donations from two businessmen, and secretly remitting tens of thousands of dollars overseas in the name of his son John King's lawyer qualification fee. South Korean sports circles revealed that Un-yong Kim was knocked down by another South Korean sports tycoon, Li Yanze. Un-yong Kim and Li Yanze have long been at odds. When the Korean Sports Federation was reelected the year before last, Un-yong Kim tried his best to let his confidant succeed Li Yanze as president, which made Li Yanze miserable after his re-election. According to Korean media reports, it was Li Yanze who inspired people to expose Un-yong Kim's economic crimes.
Misappropriation of 3.84 billion won in four years
According to the investigation of Seoul District Prosecutor's Office, since 2000, Un-yong Kim has misappropriated funds from the World Taekwondo Federation, Korea National Institute of Technology, General Federation of International Competitive Organizations and Busan Asian Games, totaling 3.84 billion won. 1997 to 2002, Un-yong Kim collected 61000,000 won from Adidas Koryo Company, and approved Adidas Company as an authorized enterprise of the World Taekwondo Federation. In addition, Un-yong Kim also received 8 1 100 million won from other enterprises and people from all walks of life, and appropriated 400 million won donated by the National Federation of Economic Persons for its own use, embezzling the Olympic profits distributed by the International Olympic Committee. (Xinhua News Agency for this newspaper) Un-yong Kim apologizes
654381Oct 9, embattled Un-yong Kim was forced to resign as a member of South Korea's parliament, and at the same time resigned as the president of the World Taekwondo Federation and the president of South Korea's chess institute.
In the Letter to the Nationals published on the same day, Un-yong Kim said with infinite sadness: "Today, I will leave the stage where I have devoted my life to North Korean sports. I sincerely confess that in the process of doing these things, I failed to handle the things around me and made some mistakes. Regardless of the results of the investigation, I sincerely apologize for the trouble I have caused to the country. " Un-yong Kim's membership in the Olympic Committee will be revoked.
Just as Un-yong Kim was busy with the investigation of the Korean judicial department, his last hope of comeback was shattered by the decision of the International Olympic Committee.
65438+1On October 23rd, the Executive Committee of the International Olympic Committee announced in Lausanne, Switzerland that Un-yong Kim's rights in the Committee, including his voting rights and all privileges as vice-chairman, were temporarily suspended, pending the investigation results of his corruption case by the Korean side and the Ethics Committee.
An IOC legal expert, who asked not to be named, said that this was a prelude to the sanctions imposed on Un-yong Kim by the IOC, and he was likely to be disqualified from the IOC for life. Wily Un-yong Kim obviously hoped to make a comeback by using the stage of the International Olympic Committee, but the decision of the International Olympic Committee undoubtedly failed his dream.