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Although there were ups and downs, I am grateful to the delegates who trusted me and elected me. I think they acknowledged that I worked hard for student horseback riding for two years last year, so I should do my best. The current problem facing the horseback riding industry is the restoration of the image of horse riding, which has been tarnished due to suspicion of favoritism in horse riding. In this regard, the Student Horses Association believes that the youth should work harder to revive the crisis as an opportunity. Since I am a person who runs a business, I am trying to introduce a 'management mind' to the operation of the Student Horses Association. It is a kind of hide-and-seek concept. I will receive consulting from an expert, and if there is a talented person, I will recruit and work with him.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 09:29 AM
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Kim argued that the Park Geun-hye administration would be most effective in securing tax revenues by cultivating the underground economy without increasing taxes, although there are many ways to implement welfare policies worth 100 trillion won. He said that illegal activities among underground economies range from 53 trillion won to 88 trillion won, although they vary depending on the investigating agency, stressing that more effective welfare policies can be implemented if only these funds are nurtured and taxed. It also strongly demanded that the role and function of the Audit Committee under the Audit Committee Act be completely transformed from a legal enforcement industry regulation to an illegal enforcement regulation body in order to eradicate illegal activities. At the same time, the government declared a full-scale war on illegal activities and urged all-out efforts to eradicate them.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 09:27 AM
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Chairman Choi Byung-wook, who was elected in a by-election held due to the resignation of his former chairman and began to take the helm of the student horse riding, is a former equestrian athlete and has been regarded as the right person to be the head of the student horse riding industry, including former student horse riding association executives, face-to-face association executives, and outside directors of the Korea Horse Association, and has been working to develop student horseback riding based on his field experience while serving as the president of the student horse riding association for the past two years. He met with Choi Byung-wook, president of the student horse riding association, who is also the CEO of iMotors, which sells new cars in Anyang, and interviewed him.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 09:25 AM
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The Korea Sports Promotion Foundation has entrusted Sports Toto to Orion, a private company, since 2003, and Orion has been evaluated as successful in charge of the deficit-ridden Sports Toto business. However, in June last year, when allegations were raised that an Orion Group executive raised a slush fund through Sports Toto, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism pushed for direct management of the corporation on the grounds that it could increase transparency of the business, strengthen publicity and increase the amount of public funds raised. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation argue that private companies aim to generate the largest profits within the contract period, which can worsen fairness with unreasonable profitability-oriented projects, and that failure to pay consignment fees can further raise public funds.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 09:24 AM
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In the general debate, which will be chaired by Noh Kyung-sang, chairman of the Horse Industry Development Council, seven people, including Nam Tae-heon, head of the livestock policy division at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Namyang-ho, president of the Korea Federation of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Jung Sung-kyu, secretary-general of the Korea Federation of Horseback Riding, Choi Yang-seok, head of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Technology Evaluation Institute, Kim Han-ho, a professor at Seoul National University, a professor at Hankyung University, and Jeong Seung-heon, a professor at Konkuk University, will attend the panel to discuss and answer questions with each topic speaker and express various perspectives and views.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 09:21 AM
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Currently, front-line horse-riding sites are clamoring for too little project cost. They say that the unit price is too low because one horse-riding and two side walkers need to be attached right away. For this reason, the number of horse-riding sites that fold their rehabilitation horse-riding courses is increasing significantly. It was promoted unintentionally, but now we need to attract more customers. The agricultural and forestry departments must start quickly. And the Korea Horse Racing Authority, an organization dedicated to fostering the horse industry, should promote the horse industry through various media. Efforts should be made to improve the image of horse-riding, which has recently deteriorated. It should be known that there are more positive aspects than the negative aspects of horseback riding.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 09:05 AM
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Most insurance companies don't accept horse insurance because of the high loss ratio. However, Gyeonggi Province, Nonghyup, and Dongbu Fire & Marine Insurance signed an MOU and prepared horse insurance. The Public Health Act and the Horse Industry Promotion Act stipulate that if you have more than three horses, you can go to the horse racing facility. Therefore, most people insure only three horses and register them. In practical terms, however, there are 20 to 30 heads of horses. On weekends and holidays, there are many customers, so people have to pick up both 20 to 30 heads, but if there is an accident, the accident occurred only in the three heads with insurance. If the accident rate increases, of course, the insurance premiums will also increase.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 09:00 AM
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He also suggested that a strategy to reduce demand for the illegal market is needed by overhauling the illegal private horse racing crackdown system and publicizing it to the public. Professor Choi Yong-sun pointed out the problems of the current leisure tax and income tax task structure through a theme presentation on "How to secure funds for fostering the horse industry." In particular, he argued that leisure tax should be imposed fairly on other speculative industries along with a minimum 2 percent cut in the leisure tax rate for horse tickets, and that leisure tax for over-the-counter sales should be converted from the provincial tax to the city and county tax system to improve the cost and convenience of basic local governments through the smooth installation and stable operation of over-the-counter sales offices, and that the environment around over-the-counter sales offices should be improved.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:59 AM
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Food and Rural Affairs, announced the government's current policies to foster the horse industry, including the background and current status of the horse industry and the five-year comprehensive plan to foster the horse industry.Cho Seong-ha, a reporter of the Dong-A Ilbo who made a presentation on the theme, "Is the gambling industry the subject of regulation?" introduced foreign cases on the regulation of the gambling industry and announced problems and improvement directions on the current regulation of the domestic gambling industry. Cho pointed out the problem of social attitude in which even the licensed gambling industry is made bad acrostic poems based on the dysfunction of gambling, and said, "The government is responsible for this." He also said, "It is time to think about advancing the gambling industry for the sake of public welfare," adding, "We need to correct the perspective (斜視) view on the gambling industry."
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:57 AM
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The Korea Sports Promotion Foundation has entrusted Sports Toto to Orion, a private company, since 2003, and Orion has been evaluated as successful in charge of the deficit-ridden Sports Toto business. However, in June last year, when allegations were raised that an Orion Group executive raised a slush fund through Sports Toto, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism pushed for direct management of the corporation on the grounds that it could increase transparency of the business, strengthen publicity and increase the amount of public funds raised. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation argue that private companies aim to generate the largest profits within the contract period, which can worsen fairness with unreasonable profitability-oriented projects, and that failure to pay consignment fees can further raise public funds.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:54 AM
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Based on what they feel on the ground, it was suggested to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to continuously revise the enforcement ordinances and enforcement regulations for the past five to six years. As a result, on December 31 last year, the enforcement ordinance was revised to allow farming and fishing villages to ride in the agricultural protection zone. It is not yet possible to do it in full, but it is thanks to efforts to improve the system so that it can be done in the protected area. All horse industry-related projects have been carried out steadily, and as you know, an organization called the Horse Industry Development Council has been formed. Working with horse industry workers, there were many organizations and many antagonists here.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:54 AM
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Gyeonggi-do Province must be the best place to do horse racing in Korea. The number of people riding horses is the largest in the country, and the potential demand group is considerable. Specifically, Gyeonggi-do Province has more than 700,000 elementary school students who enjoy horseback riding. Among other cities and provinces, the largest number is only 160,000, which is relatively large. In the case of juvenile horseback riding groups, Gyeonggi-do Province has a large number of applicants, and if you evaluate the horse riding site, the horse riding sites in Gyeonggi-do Province get good scores. When trying to create a farming and fishing village horse riding site in Gyeonggi-do, it was difficult to establish it due to regulations such as green belts and agricultural promotion zones.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:51 AM
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The horse racing industry, which had to deal with the intensive checks and regulations of the audit committee, suffered the irony of not receiving incentives for the regulation of total quantity as it was only grade B in last year's consolidation evaluation, despite the rise in total sales of Lottery and Sports Toto, which violated sales regulations every year. Some complain that the audit committee's regulation of total quantity is not functioning properly. This is because, despite not complying with the total amount, there is irrationality based on the previous year's sales on the basis of total quantity. The regulation under the guise of the audit committee's legal supervision of the gambling industry is causing problems on rooftops and even favoritism in some gambling industries. In order to correct this, it seems that the audit committee should focus on eradicating illegal gambling, not the legal gambling industry.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:39 AM
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In particular, there is no way for this year's horse racing society to expand sales by adjusting the number of races or horse racing days in the second half of the year, as it increased the number of races as much as possible to boost sales in the second half of the year. In addition, if the number of horse racing fans continues to decline, it will be difficult to prevent sales from falling even if groundbreaking efforts by horse racing organizations or horse racing-related organizations come out. Meanwhile, the total sales of the horse racing industry this year was set at 8.87 trillion won, down 700 billion won from last year. The horse racing industry, which has recorded an unwanted shortfall in sales for four years, was set at 8.77 trillion won last year, higher than other gambling companies, but it barely exceeded 8 trillion won last year, showing a decrease in total sales this year based on last year's sales.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:37 AM
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The decrease in 2013 sales of the Korea Racing Authority, which has been underperforming in total sales for the fourth year, was found to be due to the lowest point in over-the-counter sales offices and system compliance and improvement performance in the sound evaluation of the Enforcement Industry Integration Supervision Committee. At the end of March, the audit committee set the total sales of this year's horse racing industry at 8.87 trillion won, down 700 billion won from last year. The horse racing industry, which has recorded an unwanted shortfall in sales for four years, was set at 8.77 trillion won last year, higher than other gambling companies, but it barely exceeded 8 trillion won last year, showing a decrease in total sales this year based on last year's sales.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:33 AM
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The Arab horses that participate in international competitions are also anti-Arab horses that have interbreed with seed horses that are registered in ancestry. All they have to do is go through the process of registration of ancestry. In two years, there will be dozens of Arab horses in Jeju. It is up to all of us to make good horses, host world competitions, make policies together between the public and private sectors, and vitalize the horse racing industry. Seo In-woon, CEO of Jeju Horseback Riding Park, who contributed to the foundation of Samsung Electronics' horseback riding group and was in charge of sports marketing. He visited the horse racing industry across the country until he established the site, hosted a national endurance horse racing
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:24 AM
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Umbrellas should be put on the umbrella for the development of the horse riding industry. Actually, the "Korean style" does not have its identity yet. Advanced cases should also be benchmarked. The field first learns global trends and follows them in person, but organizations and policies that move the horse racing world are slower in internationalization and information power than the field or the private sector. Now is the time for innovative communication that reduces the temperature difference. There is no process of coexistence. The public and private sectors should work together to make choices. They should make choices and focus on what the problems have been. The government should hold field-oriented seminars and public hearings more than five times a year to discuss in-depth what kind of problems they have had so far.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:21 AM
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He also suggested that a strategy to reduce demand for the illegal market is needed by overhauling the illegal private horse racing crackdown system and publicizing it to the public. Professor Choi Yong-sun pointed out the problems of the current leisure tax and income tax task structure through a theme presentation on "How to secure funds for fostering the horse industry." In particular, he argued that leisure tax should be imposed fairly on other speculative industries along with a minimum 2 percent cut in the leisure tax rate for horse tickets, and that leisure tax for over-the-counter sales should be converted from the provincial tax to the city and county tax system to improve the cost and convenience of basic local governments through the smooth installation and stable operation of over-the-counter sales offices, and that the environment around over-the-counter sales offices should be improved.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:17 AM
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He also suggested that a strategy to reduce demand for the illegal market is needed by overhauling the illegal private horse racing crackdown system and publicizing it to the public. Professor Choi Yong-sun pointed out the problems of the current leisure tax and income tax task structure through a theme presentation on "How to secure funds for fostering the horse industry." In particular, he argued that leisure tax should be imposed fairly on other speculative industries along with a minimum 2 percent cut in the leisure tax rate for horse tickets, and that leisure tax for over-the-counter sales should be converted from the provincial tax to the city and county tax system to improve the cost and convenience of basic local governments through the smooth installation and stable operation of over-the-counter sales offices, and that the environment around over-the-counter sales offices should be improved.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:14 AM
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When it comes to sports, we focus only on making athletes, but don't foreigners study and ride horses together? Process is important in the field, but we value only the results. I want to continue the process and outcome, a mixture of software and hardware.My son, who studied in the U.K. for 10 years, has changed his job and is now cleaning up his horse. Last year, he also completed a 40-80-km endurance competition. He is set to participate in the CSI one-star competition in Malaysia on March 4 for the first time as an individual player. The association and the horseradish society need to nurture and support athletes, but Korea cannot even host an international competition.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:13 AM
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Kim argued that the Park Geun-hye administration would be most effective in securing tax revenues by cultivating the underground economy without increasing taxes, although there are many ways to implement welfare policies worth 100 trillion won. He said that illegal activities among underground economies range from 53 trillion won to 88 trillion won, although they vary depending on the investigating agency, stressing that more effective welfare policies can be implemented if only these funds are nurtured and taxed. It also strongly demanded that the role and function of the Audit Committee under the Audit Committee Act be completely transformed from a legal enforcement industry regulation to an illegal enforcement regulation body in order to eradicate illegal activities. At the same time, the government declared a full-scale war on illegal activities and urged all-out efforts to eradicate them.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 08:11 AM
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I hope that the horse industry journal will develop well and be reborn as an established journal. As a media specializing in the horse industry, I hope it will set a direction for the proper development of the horse industry. Rather than immediate budget allocation, the government should suggest a big way for the horse industry. Then, ordinary businesses will follow it for profit, and as they follow, a situation where the horse industry will grow can be created. Lee Kwang-seop, CEO of Mirinae Horseback-riding Club, said that when we teach our children how to ride horses, we feel that the genes of the horseback riding people are alive. He also emphasized that the key to revitalizing youth horseback riding is the adoption of elementary and secondary subjects.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 07:59 AM
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We need to make use of this. It is not possible to keep the old roads alive, but similarly, we can modernize Yeokcham and use it as a horseback-riding leisure center. Here, farming and fishing villages form cooperatives, and the government can support and build a massage here. Of course, the road connecting Yeokcham and Yeokcham is the rice bowl of the farming and fishing villages, so you have to clean up and manage the horse poop yourself. The rural horse-riding grounds that produce horses should be centered on simple experiences, and the leisure should go to the horseback-riding leisure trekking course. There are rest areas and accommodation facilities where you can relax, and there are local agricultural stores, and it can be a space that blends well with the horse industry and rural areas.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 07:56 AM
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The horse racing industry, which had to deal with the intensive checks and regulations of the audit committee, suffered the irony of not receiving incentives for the regulation of total quantity as it was only grade B in last year's consolidation evaluation, despite the rise in total sales of Lottery and Sports Toto, which violated sales regulations every year. Some complain that the audit committee's regulation of total quantity is not functioning properly. This is because, despite not complying with the total amount, there is irrationality based on the previous year's sales on the basis of total quantity. The regulation under the guise of the audit committee's legal supervision of the gambling industry is causing problems on rooftops and even favoritism in some gambling industries. In order to correct this, it seems that the audit committee should focus on eradicating illegal gambling, not the legal gambling industry.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 07:55 AM
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In particular, there is no way for this year's horse racing society to expand sales by adjusting the number of races or horse racing days in the second half of the year, as it increased the number of races as much as possible to boost sales in the second half of the year. In addition, if the number of horse racing fans continues to decline, it will be difficult to prevent sales from falling even if groundbreaking efforts by horse racing organizations or horse racing-related organizations come out. Meanwhile, the total sales of the horse racing industry this year was set at 8.87 trillion won, down 700 billion won from last year. The horse racing industry, which has recorded an unwanted shortfall in sales for four years, was set at 8.77 trillion won last year, higher than other gambling companies, but it barely exceeded 8 trillion won last year, showing a decrease in total sales this year based on last year's sales.
Friday, February 27 2026 - 07:53 AM