# Korean Sport & Olympic Committee

The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (Korean: 대한체육회; Hanja: 大韓體育會, abbr. KSOC) is the National Olympic Committee of Republic of Korea (competing as Korea) for the Olympic Games movement and inbound sports issue. It is a non-profit organization that selects players and teams to represent the nation, and raises funds to send them to Olympic events organized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

## History

The Joseon Sports Council was established on 13 July 1920, and it made Korean national competitions of each sport including All Joseon Football Tournament. The competitions were combined as the All Joseon Sport Games (currently Korean National Sports Festival) in 1934, and the combined competition was held every autumn. However, the Joseon Sports Council was forcibly dissolved by Japan on 4 July 1938, and Korean sporting activities were restricted until the end of the Japanese occupation.
The council was revived after Korean independence in 1945, and joined the IOC on 20 June 1947. It also established the Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) to prepare for the Olympic Games in that year. The council was renamed the Korea Amateur Sports Association (KASA) in 1954, and the Korea Sports Council (KSC) in 1994. The KASA succeeded in hosting the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and South Korea finished fourth in that edition, which was its best ever result in Olympics. The KOC was merged into the KSC on 24 June 2009, but the organization used KOC as its name. It once again merged with the Korea Council of Sport for All in March 2016, and named the current "Korean Sport & Olympic Committee" in November 2016, but the emblem of the committee is remaining the same as previous.
On 2 November 2018, officials from both North and South Korea announced that their countries would participate at the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo, Japan, as a unified team. The officials from both Koreas also announced that the letters they would send to the IOC regarding their bids for hosting the 2032 Summer Olympics would also consist of co-host bids so that the Olympic activities would take place in both nations if their bids were accepted as well.

## Presidents

| President | Career |
| Lyuh Woon-hyung | 1947 |
| Jung Hwan-bum | 1948 |
| Sin Ik-hui | 1948–1949 |
| Sin Hung-woo | 1949–1951 |
| Jo Ok-Byeng | 1951–1952 |
| Lee Ki-boong | 1952–1960 |
| Kim Dong-ha | 1961–1962 |
| Lee Ju-Il | 1962 |
| Lee Hyo | 1962–1964 |
| Lee Sang-beck | 1964–1966 |
| Chang Ki-young | 1966–1968 |
| Min Kwan-sik | 1968–1970 |
| Kim Yong-woo | 1971 |
| Kim Taek-soo | 1974–1976 |
| Park Chong-kyu | 1979–1980 |
| Jo Sang-ho | 1980–1982 |
| Jung Ju-young | 1982–1984 |
| Roh Tae-woo | 1984–1985 |
| Kim Jong-ha | 1985–1989 |
| Kim Jong-yeol | 1989–1993 |
| Kim Un-yong | 1993–2002 |
| Lee Yun-taek | 2002–2005 |
| Kim Jung-gil | 2005–2008 |
| Lee Yun-taek | 2008–2009 |
| Park Yong-sung | 2009–2013 |
| Kim Jung-haeng | 2013–2016 |
| Lee Kee-heung | 2016–2025 |
| Ryu Seung-min | 2025–present |

## IOC members

| Member | Career |
| Lee Ki-poong | 1955–1960 |
| Lee Sang-baek | 1964–1960 |
| Chang Ki-young | 1967–1977 |
| Kim Taek-soo | 1977–1983 |
| Park Chong-kyu | 1984–1985 |
| Kim Un-yong | 1986–2005 |
| Lee Kun-hee | 1996–2017 |
| Park Yong-sung | 2002–2007 |
| Moon Dae-sung | 2008–2016 |
| Ryu Seung-min | 2016–2024 |
| Lee Kee-heung | 2019–2025 |

## Logos

* Korea Sports Council
* Korean Olympic Committee

## Korean Sports Hall of Fame

* Players in Olympic sports
* Players in non-Olympic sports
* Administrators
| Year | Inductee | Gender | Sport | Title(s) |
| 2011 | Sohn Kee-chung | Man | Athletics | Marathon champion at the 1936 Summer Olympics. First Korean player to win an Olympic gold medal. |
| 2011 | Kim Seong-jip | Man | Weightlifting | Light heavyweight champion at the 1954 Asian Games. First Korean national player to win an Olympic medal. |
| 2014 | Suh Yun-bok | Man | Athletics | Champion at the 1947 Boston Marathon. First Asian player to win a major marathon. |
| 2014 | Chang Chang-sun | Man | Wrestling | Freestyle flyweight champion at the 1966 World Wrestling Championships. |
| 2014 | Min Kwan-sik | Man | — | KASA president who modernised Korean sports by constructing the Korea National Training Center. |
| 2015 | Yang Jung-mo | Man | Wrestling | Freestyle featherweight champion at the 1976 Summer Olympics. First Korean national player to win an Olympic gold medal. |
| 2015 | Park Shin-ja | Woman | Basketball | Most Valuable Player at the 1967 FIBA World Championship for Women. |
| 2015 | Kim Un-yong | Man | — | IOC member who contributed to hosting the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea. |
| 2016 | Kim Yuna | Woman | Figure skating | Singles champion at the 2010 Winter Olympics. |
| 2017 | Cha Bum-kun | Man | Football | One of champions at the 1979–80 and 1987–88 UEFA Cups. |
| 2018 | Kim Jin-ho | Woman | Archery | Individual and team event champion at the 1979 and 1983 World Archery Championships. |
| 2018 | Kim Il | Man | Professional wrestling | One of WWA World Heavyweight champions. |
| 2019 | Um Hong-gil | Man | Mountaineering | Climber who reached 16 highest points including all 14 eight-thousanders. |
| 2020 | Jo O-ryeon | Man | Swimming | 400 m freestyle and 1500 m freestyle champion at the 1970 and 1974 Asian Games. |
| 2021 | Kim Hong-bin | Man | Mountaineering | First disabled person to reach all 14 eight-thousanders. |
| 2022 | Lee Bong-ju | Man | Athletics | Champion at the 2001 Boston Marathon. |
| 2023 | Nam Sung-yong | Man | Athletics | One of the first Korean players to win an Olympic medal (alongside Sohn Kee-chung). |
| 2024 | Ha Hyung-joo | Man | Judo | Half heavyweight champion at the 1984 Summer Olympics. |