Cheol-won Choi, President of the Ice Hockey Association



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M&M CEO Choi Cheol-won, who gained public sympathy 10 years ago with the so-called “price match assault,” was elected president of the Korea Ice Hockey Association.

This is Lee Myung-no.

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The so-called ‘Matching Price Assault’ incident that became the motif of a movie veteran.

[2010년 뉴스]
“After hitting 13 generations with a baseball bat and hitting them in the face with a fist, former CEO Choi Cheol-won, in his 40s, handed out two checks worth 10 million won,” Yoo said.

[유홍준/’맷값 폭행’ 사건 피해자(2010년 당시)]
“There was no one to talk to you. How can I do this to a person …?”

However, CEO Cheol-won Choi had no signs of reflection,

[최철원/M&M 대표(2010년 당시)]
(Did you think you could hit 20 million won?)

“No more than that. I’m sorry something so bad happened because of me that it made me socially noisy.”

He was released on parole at the appeal hearing.

Today, 10 years later, CEO Choi ran for president of the Korea Ice Hockey Association and was elected as the 24th president with 62 out of 82 valid votes.

Although the association’s statutes establish that in case of ‘social controversy’ it cannot become an executive.

Ice hockey officials said it was an inevitable choice.

CEO Choi, a member of the SK Group family, said: “The candidate who can take responsibility for the formation of the unemployment team and the existence of the league,” he said, “I know the past mistakes, but first I will solve the ice hockey problems. ”

In response to this, the top group, the Korea Sports Association, put forward only the position of principle that it would review if a request for approval comes from the president. They are pouring.

This is Lee Myung-no from MBC News.

(Video coverage: Kim Baek-seung / Video editing: Choe-beom Cho)

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