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Korea Racing Authority so that policies can be decided and supported. It’s not a binary of good and bad. Related organizations, associations, and local governments have hardly ever studied or presented advanced cases, have they. Have they ever officially solicited proposals for major projects. If it is encouraged to generate revenue and create models, the private sector is ready to jump in actively as well.This is what I hope for the Horse Industry Journal. The media must become one that thoroughly criticizes what should be criticized

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Just as the saying “Send people to Seoul, send horses to Jeju” is being told like a bible, most of the racehorse production in Korea takes place in Jeju. The reality is that racehorse breeding in Korea is classified into Jeju and inland areas.However, Jeju, surrounded by the sea on all sides, is already showing signs of saturation at racehorse breeding farms. The reality of racehorse production, rushing toward mass supply, is causing fierce competition among breeding farms. In addition, the preference for private-bred mares has declined due to the concentration of high-priced mares at the Korea Racing Authority, while corporate-style production farms are emerging and small-scale production farms are facing difficulties.

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Nearsighted administration makes the fieldwork even more difficult, and when the fieldwork focuses only upward and receives no support, resentment boomerangs back, creating a vicious cycle of mutual burden. A mid- to long-term, fundamental system is needed.A hardware-centered policy framework for the equestrian industry must shift to a software-centered one to take the first step toward revitalization. It’s time for the head of the equestrian industry division to come out,

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When we talk about training, we tend to focus only on making athletes, but in other countries, people study as well while also doing horseback riding, don’t they. In the field, the process is important, but we only care about the result. I want to keep working on projects where process and outcome, software and hardware, are mixed together.My son, who studied in the UK for ten years, has now changed his job and is cleaning up horse manure. Last year, I also completed endurance races of 40 and 80 km.

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Equestrian Federation that there would be a youth endurance competition, and I looked into it online. I was curious about what kind of competition there is in our country’s youth tournaments, where children aged 4 to 7 compete under the guidance of their parents and coaches, children compete with their parents without guidance until age 10, and children compete directly on their own until age 17. I entered the race, saying to the parents and the athletes, “Let’s go together.” At first, the parents thought it wouldn’t work.

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Youth Endurance Competition within just one month of its founding, but also winning the overall championship in the national competition and three events of the Jeju Superintendent of Education Cup. It may seem that riding the youth equestrian boom, the school appeared like a comet and happened to achieve good results, but it is the result of thorough preparation and relentless effort by the athletes, their parents, and the Jeju Equestrian Park officials.

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Just as hotels have different grades and guests choose based on them, riding centers should also implement a grading system. These days, above all else, safety has become the most important thing. If safety and the quality of education are ensured through a grading system for riding centers, schools will be able to conduct linked classes without financial burden.Just as hotels have different grades and guests choose based on them, riding centers should also implement a grading system.

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Of course, the path connecting the relay stations is their own turf in the rural-style riding center, so they must clean up and maintain the horse manure as well. Rural horseback riding centers that produce horses should become simple experience-focused, and leisure activities should be moved to horseback riding, resort trekking courses. There could be rest areas and lodging facilities where travelers can rest at the post station, as well as local agricultural product shops, and if combined, it could become a space that harmonizes well with the equestrian industry and rural areas.

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In a desperate situation where the horse’s gait could easily collapse, jockey Ham Wan-sik quickly steered the horse inward and began to push it. ‘Yesin Nobu’ also changed course under jockey Ham Wan-sik’s push and made a strong leap forward to cross the finish line first. It was the moment jockey Ham Wan-sik reached 500 wins. It was a race that seemed to condense the life of a jockey over the years. In the jockey’s waiting room, as jockey Ham Wan-sik washed the dirt off his face, the events of the past flashed before his eyes like a revolving lantern. It was the 500th win he had dreamed of since his little jockey days. Sixteen years—falling off horses, getting hurt, and being torn apart, yet getting back up again. Because it was never an easy time, the sense of accomplishment was even greater.

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Last year, our equestrian center also held grassroots equestrian competitions with support from the Korea Racing Authority, but there is a need to continuously expand support for regional equestrian competitions. It’s about developing a local equestrian competition into a regional festival. Children participating in the equestrian competition will show off their skills, and parents, grandfathers, and grandmothers will attend to watch them, making it a festival that brings the local community together.

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Racing Authority should take the lead in issuing research materials on character education and physical development. We have to prove and show that children really improve when they ride horses. The best candidates would be a first-year middle school student or a sixth-grade elementary school student. By signing an MOU with a local education office, all students in the relevant region and grade must ride horses for at least two hours per week for one year. There are education indicator statistics by education office,

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Especially in the racehorse breeding farm located inland, the situation is even more severe. Despite suffering a double burden from unfavorable natural climatic conditions as well as urbanization and rising land prices, the market value of racehorses produced is set far too low.Although many problems have been raised from various places, everyone agrees that only the producers’ relentless efforts can create a breakthrough.Located in Janghowon, Gyeonggi Province, Champion Farm is an ordinary breeding farm that, although far less developed than the increasingly large-scale corporate production farms, aims to produce Korean-style racehorses. However, from the perspective of a typical production farm, it can be said that its strength lies in aiming to produce racehorses that best suit Korean horse racing.

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There should be a big-picture plan for how to nurture and cultivate it after it has taken root in the country, but that aspect still seems lacking.The government invests a great deal of effort and money to get things off the ground, but it has never really decided what seedlings to grow from them into what big trees. Up to now, an enormous number of research materials and papers have been published. However, since clear guidelines have not yet been established, there are trial-and-error issues and difficulties.

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Let’s take a look at the story of Champion Ranch, run by owner Kim Yang-ho, who feels joy in the life of horse racing enthusiasts that began with meeting the “Perfect Champion.”Race 6, May 18, 2014. Jockey Ham Wan-sik has now ridden the rookie horse “Yesin Nobu,” which is just entering its second race. She had a good build and high expectations, but as a rookie, you can’t recklessly guarantee a win. With outstanding agility, it burst out of the gate, but had already lost the lead to the rival horse, “Empress Dongjin.” Jockey Ham Wan-sik boldly gave up leading and chose to follow. Just as he entered the final line and was about to gain real momentum, another crisis struck when he collided with the opponent horse leaning inward.

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Daejeon High School and the Department of Sociology at Korea University, and joined the Korea Racing Authority through open recruitment in April 1989. Since joining the company, he has held key positions across the board, including head of marketing in 2004, director of public relations in 2011, and director of the audit office in 2015. Just before assuming the Busan-Gyeongnam Regional Headquarters, he served as head of the Jeju Regional Headquarters,

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Especially in the racehorse breeding farm located inland, the situation is even more severe. Despite suffering a double burden from unfavorable natural climatic conditions as well as urbanization and rising land prices, the market value of racehorses produced is set far too low.Although many problems have been raised from various places, everyone agrees that only the producers’ relentless efforts can create a breakthrough.Located in Janghowon, Gyeonggi Province, Champion Farm is an ordinary breeding farm that, although far less developed than the increasingly large-scale corporate production farms, aims to produce Korean-style racehorses. However, from the perspective of a typical production farm, it can be said that its strength lies in aiming to produce racehorses that best suit Korean horse racing.

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In this situation, the horse industry must come together and move forward. Rather than prioritizing only their own interests, each association should come together, put their heads together, and engage in deep reflection on how to overcome the current difficult situation and how to develop the horse industry. Of course, the Korea Racing Authority’s sales are already on a downward trend, and the outlook on the horse industry is not very positive, but if we put our heads together and move in a constructive direction, we will find a breakthrough.

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Just as the saying “Send people to Seoul, send horses to Jeju” is being told like a bible, most of the racehorse production in Korea takes place in Jeju. The reality is that racehorse breeding in Korea is classified into Jeju and inland areas.However, Jeju, surrounded by the sea on all sides, is already showing signs of saturation at racehorse breeding farms. The reality of racehorse production, rushing toward mass supply, is causing fierce competition among breeding farms. In addition, the preference for private-bred mares has declined due to the concentration of high-priced mares at the Korea Racing Authority, while corporate-style production farms are emerging and small-scale production farms are facing difficulties.

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Although many changes are already taking place around the world, our country’s training techniques have yet to keep pace with that trend. We must quickly adopt advanced technology in step with the tide of change. Above all, I think the most important thing is to introduce and promote new training techniques and methods in Korea. So I want to take an interest in that area, and I also try to provide school children with as many opportunities as possible to learn about the evolving methods of discipline day by day.

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Because everyone is interested in horse training. The greatest difficulty is that we must lead the divided horse training fields together. There is a concern about how we can bring them together as one, given that trainers are scattered across the country and that horse racing and equestrianism appear divided, with an invisible gap still persisting. So in the first year, I intend to focus heavily on integration and work hard to come up with solutions. Training doesn’t mean separating horseback riding and horse racing

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First, I plan to present on a topic related to training at the first symposium. We also plan to hold a horse massage seminar, which many people in the horse industry are very interested in. People are interested in horse massage, but they don’t know how to do it or what effects it has, so it seems good to create an opportunity like this. Rather than just delivering theory, I plan to structure it around practical exercises that participants can try themselves.Also, as horses undergo training, lactic acid builds up.

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Winning the grand prize made me think of two things. I’m grateful to receive such a great award, even though I haven’t made much of a significant contribution to the horse industry. And on the other hand, I thought it also meant urging them to work even harder for the development of the horse industry. Thank you.In the second half of last year, we held the founding members’ meeting and inaugural general assembly of the Korean Language Trainers Association, and recently, two to three weeks ago,

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He is currently an assistant trainer at LetsRun Park Pukyong and a professor at Seorabeol University, actively working to train the next generation of talent. In particular, in November of last year, he was highly praised for his various contributions to the founding of the Korean Speech Trainer Association and was elected its first president. We met with Kwon Seung-joo, president of the Korea Horse Trainers Association, who has a bold ambition to establish a training role model suited to Korea’s circumstances

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Despite efforts to reach an agreement with the opposition countermeasure committee through residents’ briefings, meetings, and conflict mediation procedures, the conflict among residents has only intensified without any reasonable alternatives to resolve it, due to the opposition’s unconditional opposition and the division and erosion of representation by opposition groups. Therefore, it was judged that a resolution through consultation was impossible.The Korea Racing Authority stated that it would make a final decision after a temporary trial opening of the Yongsan sales outlet, but the “Yongsan Virtual Horse Racing Gambling Ban Committee,” composed of 17 civic groups including People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy and local residents, mobilized about 100 personnel over the two days of June 28–29 to block off the entrance to the Yongsan off-track betting facility and prevent horse racing customers from entering, making it impossible to conduct the trial operation as normally intended.

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Education Expo and further deepen its development. At this meeting, there are plans to hold a roundtable discussion on ways to hold a winter youth equestrian camp utilizing the excellent equestrian facilities of institutions specializing in training professionals in the horse industry. We have asked Professor Jang Seok-am of Dankook University, who is currently the president of the Chungnam Equestrian Federation, to conduct a meeting. By utilizing the excellent equestrian facilities