Controversy over ‘monopoly’ of some sports clubs, public sports facilities
The club’s own regulations that take precedence over the ordinance… “Use of non-club citizens is restricted”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Intern Reporter Seong Jin-woo = “It is really difficult for ordinary citizens to use public sports facilities because of clubs that pretend to be owners without any basis.”
Although the number of citizens visiting public sports facilities is gradually increasing as the social distancing is lifted, it has been pointed out that some sports clubs are still monopolizing the use of the facilities or interfering with the operation without legal basis.
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Earlier this month, Im Sang-wook and his wife visited a public badminton court near their house in A city, Gyeonggi-do to play badminton, and experienced an absurd incident.
A badminton club banned the exercise, saying, “You have to match 4 people to use the court” according to the management regulations.
Lim said, “Out of the total of six courts, only one ‘beginner’s coat’ could be used by two people. Even that one court was used for the purpose of ‘rallying’ among themselves in a club, and eventually exercise. I couldn’t even come out,” he said.
He said, “Public sports facilities are not exclusive stadiums for clubs, so by what qualification do you restrict the use of ordinary citizens?”
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Most of the public sports facilities are operated by local sports associations entrusted with management from local governments.
Therefore, the club cannot be directly involved in the operation, and the guidelines created by itself are not related to the facility management regulations.
Even in city A, there is a local government ordinance stating that ‘any citizen of city A can use public facilities first,’ but club guidelines have been given priority in the badminton facilities.
Lim said, “The club said, ‘The original rules are like that.
Seolhwa Lee, another user of the facility, said, “I looked on the internet and the situation is similar to public sports facilities in other areas.
I tried to contact the Badminton Federation affiliated with City A Sports Association several times by phone and text message to hear their position, but they did not reach me.
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City A Sports Association, the management body of this facility, promised to educate managers to prevent recurrence.
A city sports club official explained, “As the number of courts that can be operated has increased due to the lifting of the distance, the number of users has increased.”
The official said, “The sports club will send related guidelines to each club and reinforce the training of on-site managers so that the club does not regard it as an obligatory issue and monopolize the court.”
A city official said, “After checking the problem situation through a site visit, the post has been removed.”
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