{"id":89456,"date":"2026-07-17T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/89456\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:19:13","slug":"south-korean-football-reform-group-led-by-park-ji-sung-ryu-seung-min-criticised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/89456\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean football reform group led by Park Ji-sung, Ryu Seung-min criticised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Led by former national team players including Park Ji-sung, Lee Young-pyo and Park Joo-ho, as well as Ryu Seung-min, who is president of the Korean Sport and Olympic Committee and a former table tennis player who won the men\u2019s singles gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games, the \u201cK-Football Reform Committee\u201d was pushing for a direct election system for the next president of the Korean Football Association (KFA) after some dismal performances saw the Korean national team eliminated in the Fifa World Cup group stage for the third time in four recent editions.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWhat would Park Ji-sung and Lee Young-pyo know [about forming] a reform committee?\u201d said Seo Gang-il, president of the Jeonbuk Football Association. \u201cThey were national team players in football, but how well have they lived their lives? How much do they know of the law, and how much social experience do they have to be reform committee chairs?<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cInstead of just criticising, why don\u2019t they run in the election themselves?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Park Ji-sung (left) and Ryu Seung-min (middle) at a K-Football Reform Committee meeting. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/455bd539-caf5-473e-90c6-8e577a1d8438_513d49f4.jpg\" title=\"Park Ji-sung (left) and Ryu Seung-min (middle) at a K-Football Reform Committee meeting. Photo: Handout\"\/>Park Ji-sung (left) and Ryu Seung-min (middle) at a K-Football Reform Committee meeting. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Seo also expressed vehement opposition to the reform committee\u2019s move towards \u201cdirect elections\u201d, saying: \u201cWhy is it necessary to amend the articles of association when a by-election should be held within 60 days in accordance with the current association by-laws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Led by former national team players including Park Ji-sung, Lee Young-pyo and Park Joo-ho, as well as Ryu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[47050,7328,20225,12927,197,2810,47049,47051,7329,171,47043,47048,47045,574,20922,47046,47047,47044],"class_list":["post-89456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-korea","tag-asian-games","tag-chung-mong-gyu","tag-czech-republic","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-football","tag-hong-myung-bo","tag-jeonbuk-football-association","tag-k-football-reform-committee","tag-kfa","tag-korean","tag-korean-football-association","tag-korean-sport-and-olympic-committee","tag-lee-young-pyo","tag-mexico","tag-park-ji-sung","tag-park-joo-ho","tag-ryu-seung-min","tag-seo-gang-il"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}