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As the opposition committee strongly protested the trial opening, the Korea Racing Authority formed an emergency task force related to LetsRun CCC Yongsan, chaired by Chairman Hyun Myung-kwan, and launched a company-wide response.Following the first week of the trial opening, the second week also arrived on July 4, and the opposition has continued illegal business disruptions, including rallies and blocking the entrance to the Yongsan off-track betting facility. Attention is now focused on what solutions the Korea Racing Authority’s Emergency Response Committee may be able to find.They also plan to monitor whether concerns have been resolved, hold ongoing discussions on ongoing issues, review the donation, and form a residents’ participation council composed of about 10 people, including the residents’ countermeasure committee, Yongsan District residents, and the Korea Racing Authority, to revitalize the cultural center.

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Previously, we kept the competition course hidden and did not disclose it, but since student equestrianism emphasizes an educational purpose, I don’t think that is necessarily necessary. So we will set the course exactly so that, from the preliminaries to the finals, we can all run on the same course. As mentioned earlier, by watching videos of preliminary matches held in each region, on-site coaches can assess which areas you are weak in and which parts you need to work on improving, enabling on-site coaching.

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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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Among youth equestrian events, there is the “Hunter” event, which evaluates the accuracy of posture. Student horseback riding should have an educational purpose aimed at guiding riders to ride accurately rather than focusing on achieving good immediate grades. Therefore, they plan to promote an event called “Korea Standard Jumping,” which is an adaptation of the “Hunter competition.” Former president Lee Jong-eun also privately organized and conducted training related to the “Hunter competition” for student equestrianism,

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Nowadays, most families have only one or two children, so they may lack social skills and emotional bonding abilities, but if education is provided through horses as animal-assisted learning, children can become more refined and develop their ability to connect emotionally. I plan to strengthen etiquette education going forward.In addition, there is a great need to promote the positive aspects of horseback riding. Just looking at last year’s youth equestrian club competition, children gathered from all over the country.

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If the competition footage filmed here were broadcast live, people anywhere in the country could watch equestrian competitions from other regions. You can watch the youth competition held on Imjado, Sinan, Jeollanam-do, without having to go in person to Gangneung, Gangwon Province, where a student equestrian athlete is competing. The Student Equestrian Association does not intend to take the lead in organizing competitions; instead, we plan to allow each regional association to take the lead.

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Since most of the student equestrian association’s executives are doing it alongside their main jobs, there are some shortcomings in accounting management and meeting facilitation. So I am in contact with someone who is well acquainted with accounting management and also has a good understanding of equestrianism.Because he was said to be close with Executive Director Park Won-oh and Director Park Jae-hong, he was pushed around and around, and before anyone knew it he had become Choi Soon-sil’s man. But that’s absolutely not true.

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Originally, there was a plan to hold a youth equestrian competition at the plaza in front of Seoul City Hall, but it didn’t go well. Then it was changed to a park behind the National Assembly building in Yeouido, Seoul, and the project was relaunched, and it seemed like it might go well, but in the end it fell through. Ultimately, it was finally changed to be held within the Korea Racing Authority, and the association decided to handle everything directly, from organizing the event to setting up the venue.

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We also plan to get consulting from experts and, if there are talented people, recruit them to work with us. There was a time when the Korea Racing Authority commissioned a sports marketing expert to conduct an analysis in an effort to develop ways to revitalize equestrian competitions. They plan to seek help from fellow sports marketing experts, including visiting Professor Jeong Hee-yoon of Hanyang University, who was in charge of the commissioned project at the time. If necessary, I also intend to show the attitude of making three visits and one earnest request.

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Choi Byung-wook, who was elected in a by-election held due to the resignation of the previous president and began serving as the head of student equestrianism, is a former equestrian athlete who has been widely regarded as the right person to lead student equestrianism after gaining experience across the entire horse industry, including serving as an executive of the former Student Equestrian Federation, an executive of the Owners’ Association, and an outside director of the Korea Racing Authority.

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In the equestrian world, it is often said that Korean equestrian success depends on youth and student equestrian training. It also means that many equestrians share the understanding of the importance of youth and student equestrianism. With former president Choi Byung-wook successfully securing re-election in the 36th election for president of the Korea Student Equestrian Federation held on the 6th, the Korea Student Equestrian Federation can now accelerate efforts to consistently revitalize youth and student equestrian programs.

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By crossing an Arab horse and a Han ram, which show strengths in endurance and handling obstacles, and registering them as a half-Arab horse, “Jeju Arab horse,” you can do so. The Arab horses participating in the international competition are also semi-Arab horses bred with stallions registered in terms of bloodline. You only need to go through the pedigree registration process. In two years, there will be dozens of Arab horses in Jeju. Creating positive messaging, hosting a world competition,

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.