Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun (left), who is also the chairman of the Korea Archery Association, is encouraging South Korean national archery team members Im Si-hyeon (center) and Kim Woo-jin (right) immediately after the awards ceremony for the mixed archery event at the 2024 Paris Olympics on the 2nd (local time).
Hyundai Motor Group Chairman and Korea Archery Association President Chung Eui-sun, who supported the team’s victory in all archery events at the 2024 Paris Olympics, ordered preparations for the ‘2028 Los Angeles (LA) Olympics’ as soon as the archery schedule for this Olympics ended.
Some say that Chairman Chung’s full support, in which he personally took care of the players’ psychological state, meals, and even training, has become the driving force behind South Korea’s archery team maintaining its position as the best in the world.
After the South Korean national archery team won its fifth gold medal in the men’s archery final at the Paris Olympics held at Les Invalides in Paris, France on the 4th (local time), Chairman Chung stated, “From the beginning, my goal was not to win all events or this many gold medals,” and “I just helped the players do as well as they tried, or even better.”
Chairman Chung, who became the 9th chairman of the association in 1995, following his father, Hyundai Motor Honorary Chairman Chung Mong-koo, who took office as the chairman of the Korea Archery Association in 1985, also helped the athletes in both material and spiritual ways during this Olympics. He visited Paris as part of the presidential economic delegation in June last year, took time out of his busy schedule to check out the local situation, and arrived early before the opening ceremony to check the athletes’ training facilities, rest areas, and meals. When
the men’s team final opponent was decided to be the host country, France, he encouraged the athletes, saying, “It’s natural that there will be a lot of cheering for the home team, but don’t be discouraged and just do what you’ve been doing.” Chairman Chung cheered from the stands for all five archery finals.
Chairman Chung’s eyes are already set on the next four years. “(Regarding the Los Angeles Olympics) we need to get together and have a strategy meeting and analyze the various pros and cons,” he said. 카지노사이트