Is the Korea Football Association, which has 12.3 million won for three years, driving the "corporate card" to Vice Chairman Choi Young-il's wife's restaurant?
Is the Korea Football Association, which has 12.3 million won for three years, driving the "corporate card" to Vice Chairman Choi Young-il's wife's restaurant?
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KBS reports confirmed that executives of the Korea Football Association paid a considerable amount of more than 10 million won with corporate cards for three years only at the restaurant of Vice Chairman Choi Young-il's wife, including 2021 and 2022.
According to the "Business Promotion Expenses and Corporate Card Usage Details of Korean Football Association Executives" disclosed on the Korea Sports Association's sports support portal, executives of the Korea Football Association paid a total of 12.3 million won and 3,000 won over three years with corporate cards, including 2.47 million won in 2021, 6.188 million won in 2022, and 3.645 million won in 2023.
In particular, 6.18 million won was paid 22 times for "Sun X Price" alone in 2022, and both the number and amount of payments are overwhelmingly high. From October to the end of the year, I visited the restaurant nine times.
"Sun X Ga" is a Japanese restaurant run by the wife of Choi Young-il, the current vice chairman of the Korea Football Association, in Jamsil. This is why there is a controversy over "giving all public funds" to Choi's wife's restaurant.
In response to the allegations, Vice Chairman Choi Young-il said in a telephone interview with KBS, "The suspicion of giving all of the public money to his spouse is very unfair," adding, "I registered my marriage with the president of 'Sun X family' on February 15, 2024, and I was not a spouse before that. I used it before marriage," explaining that it is not right to give all of the public money to my wife's restaurants in both timing and context. 토토사이트
Vice Chairman Choi also added, "The restaurant called 'Sun X Street' is very quiet and it is good to meet people. There is no place in Jamsil to eat quietly as 'Sun X Street'. Of course, I didn't make all the payment. The executives came and came even when I was not there, and I scratched it."
However, it is pointed out that it is not easy for executives to meet and eat so many times at a restaurant in Songpa-gu, Seoul, 20 kilometers from Jongno-gu, Seoul, where the Korea Football Association's office is located, unless it is a "crowd."
According to the soccer community, it was around 2019 that Vice Chairman Choi Young-il became involved with "Sun X Ga." However, only three years of corporate credit card usage from 2021 to 2023 are disclosed on the KOC's sports support portal. If the KOC discloses the details of corporate credit card usage before 2021, the amount of credit card usage in "Sun X Ga" could increase further.
Until recently, the Korea Football Association did not disclose the details of corporate card use on the support portal of the Korea Sports Association on the grounds that executives may violate the Personal Information Act, but hurriedly disclosed it when criticism was raised during the parliamentary audit.
In 2017, the Korea Football Association used corporate cards privately at golf courses and entertainment bars, and 12 former and current executives and employees, including Cho Joong-yeon, president of the Korea Football Association, and Lee Hoi-taek, vice chairman, were booked by the police.
Chung Mong-kyu, president of the Korea Football Association, will also attend today's parliamentary audit of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and will be dealt with over allegations of giving public funds to Vice Chairman Choi Young-il's wife's restaurant.