The Korea Badminton Association (KBA) has explained the controversy over aviation use.
The association said on the 9th, "We correct the misinformation related to the use of aviation when executives travel abroad," adding, "Most of the economy seats were used by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) when traveling abroad from 2021 when the current executive term began to this Olympics."
The association said, "It is true that in 2018, which was the previous executive period, some executives were criticized by the media for using business seats when dispatching international competitions. Currently, the association's travel regulations stipulate that the chairman and vice-chairman can use business seats, but since 2021, when the term of the current executive department begins, the budget saved by using the general seats of executives has been additionally used for training the team."
The association is under fire after Ahn Se-young, the gold medalist in the women's singles at the Paris Olympics, revealed that there were problems with athlete management and system.
Players ride economy seats, but the past story of executives moving in business seats was revealed, causing anger among sports fans. The current executive emphasized that it was not related to the fact, but stressed that it supported the training by saving the budget.
The association had 10 pages of information in which Chairman Kim Taek-kyu returned to Korea before the Olympic team to explain Ahn's remarks after his conflict with Ahn surfaced. Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Olympic Committee, appeared on a prominent TV program on the morning of the day, and executives said, "We have upgraded the seating capacity to personal mileage." A few hours later, the association delivered content that supports the information. They have repeatedly taken swift and swift actions.
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