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[스포츠서울 | 김경무전문기자] Following table tennis among racquet sports, badminton is also expected to become a professional league within three years.
Kim Jung-soo (62), president of the Korea Business Badminton Federation, said in a phone call with this paper on the 27th, “When I took office in January of last year, my promise was to launch a professional league.” “I plan to launch a professional league within the next three years.” Earlier, on the 13th, the Unemployment Federation launched the ‘2022 DB Group Badminton Korean League‘ with 8 teams each of men and women participating.
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Korea Industrial Badminton Federation” class=”img_LSize” />The business teams are divided into groups A and B, respectively, and are playing in the group stage at the Hwado Sports and Culture Center in Hwado-eup, Namyangju, Gyeonggi-do. They started the schedule for 7 weeks until the 9th of next month, and after the group stage is over, the first winning team will be selected through the semi-final playoffs from the 10th of next month.
Chairman Kim Jung-soo said, “Before the launch of the Korea League, I was worried about whether the box office would do well, but the response was unexpectedly good.
The Korea League was launched with a donation of 500 million won by DB Group, and SPOTV, which bought the world tour and major championship broadcasting rights from the World Badminton Federation (BWF) for 5 years, broadcasts every game live and contacts the home fans. is also increasing.
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Currently, matches are held every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Chairman Kim Jung-soo said, “If the number of participating teams increases, it is likely that the second Korea League could be held at the end of this year.” He said, “Due to real problems such as COVID-19 and relay broadcasting, we are holding the tournament by designating a venue, but we plan to introduce a home-and-away local ties system in the future.” [email protected]
