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All 7 coaches of the Korean national badminton team have tendered their resignations to the Badminton Korea Association (BKA), it was revealed in an editorial yesterday in Korean daily the Chosun Ilbo.
The editorial, which appeared on Thursday, also mentioned that the BKA’s entire 13-member Performance Development Committee had submitted their resignations at last month’s BKA Council meeting. The moves are widely seen as reactions to the dismal performance at the recent Asian Games, after which the Korean team returned home without a single badminton medal for the first time in 40 years.
Of course, the Korean team’s woes go beyond the Asian Games. From 21 major (Grand Prix and above) titles in 2016, Korea went down to 11 last year and so far in 2018, only 1 Super 100 and 2 Super 300 titles have gone to members of the Korean national team. Shortly before the Asian Games, former world #1 Kim Ha Na, who had accounted for 3 of Korea’s titles last year, added her name to the list of retired stars. In the last two months, four players who left the national team after the Rio Olympics – Ko Sung Hyun, Shin Baek Cheol, Lee Yong Dae and Kim Gi Jung – have accounted for 3 more international finals and two titles. These were only made possible after Ko and Shin took legal action to force the BKA to enter the players in tournaments as independent players.
The Chosun Ilbo editorial explains that the current coaching staff will continue to work with the national team until at least after the two Super 750 events in Europe later this month. No official announcement has been made yet by the BKA.
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To read the full article (in Korean) – the title of which translates to “Crisis-stricken Korean badminton cuts off own tail?…Fundamental measures needed” – visit the Chosun Ilbo website
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So good of BKA, Korea to keep all of us in total darkness not revealing anything, not telling us anything. Great no need to tell the whole world anything, keep everything as a secret. Somehow everyone knows BKA will close shop by end of this year 2018. Good luck BKA do keep all of us in darkness and no need to reveal anything. No need to tell us anything then quietly close shop by end of this year. So sad to really have to see this eventually happen in Korea. The first and ever badminton association to close shop.
It seems to me that this mass resignation, combined with the court ruling (Ko vs BKA) provides the basis for a much needed re-vamping of the national team system. Given the pro-leagues that have developed both domestically and internationally (e.g. in India and Malaysia), how can BKA structure the senior national team so as to maximize both development and international success? Surely there are some intelligent people that can make this happen. But in any case, here are my suggestions regarding the coaching situation:
1) Appoint Park Joo Bong as National Team Coach. (Yes, I know he’s under contract with Japan…)
2) Appoint Morten Frost as Men’s Singles Head Coach, or just a consultant/advisor until they see how best to fit him in.
3) Appoint Ra Kyung Min as head of women’s team.
4) Appoint Kim Dong Moon as coach of Men’s Doubles program.
5) 3 & 4 can both work on the Mix, 🙂
Perhaps you can tell us and brief us more about what has happened? I read the news here and it is kind of so difficult to believe that Korea badminton has come to such a bad stage. What has actually happened? What about Ko Sung Hyun / Shin Baek Cheol case of suing their own badminton association?
You can mostly follow the timeline if you follow our tag for stories related to the BKA here. As for the outcome of the current situation, there has still been no public announcement by the BKA.
I sincerely hope that the problem can be solved as soon as possible.
Allow me to say something here. Progress cannot be made within a few months. It has to be accumulated. The way I see it, Korean players lose out a lot because only those players from the national team can go out to play in international tournaments. Independent players not allowed to play in international tournaments which caused the players are left with no choice but to sue their own associations in order for them to play in international tournaments.
I knew the players are selected to join the national team based on yearly basis. But come to think of it. If the player is just newly selected to join the national team with no experience playing in any international tournament, that player already lose out a lot compared to their peers who have been participating in nonstop tournaments.
Furthermore the whole badminton association has been in a very disorganized form. But of course no one will know about it because when problem arise, it can always be swept under the carpet. Hence is nothing is reported and then everyone will think that everything looks fine but the actual fact it is not. The root of the problem is the discontentment with how the association is being run. The officers in the association are blamed for the poor results. Then the officers in the association started to blame the coaches for the poor results. After that coaches blame the players for the poor results saying they are not hardworking enough to train. Actual fact is the blame game has been going on and everyday the same blame game comes in a cycle. This caused the working environment to be not conducive. In the end under such chaotic association, players produce no results and then the blame game goes on forever.
The only way to move forward now is for the whole association to go through a very thorough revamp. Aside from that, Korea should also change their rules and allow independent players from badminton clubs to play in international tournaments. This will then spur a healthy competition among national team and independent players. By doing so Korea badminton will be able to be revived back to their glorious moments.
Yes, in the past Korea can always boast about their strong domination in men doubles. But since 2016 till now Korea have lose its status as men doubles powerhouse and this is very sad indeed. Seriously something must be done quickly before it is too late.
Mass resignation of coaches and officers will only worsen the problem and won’t solve anything. I sincerely hope that the badminton association of Korea will solve all the problems quickly. If not then the badminton association of Korea may have to close shop and that will be the end of the story. So sad indeed and no one can imagine that the Korea badminton has indeed come to such a bad stage indeed.
It is not the fault of the coaching team, one cannot polish stones into diamonds You just do not get great talent during this period. Same as China, their men have waned and their women are in the doldrums. There will be ups and downs in the emergence of stars. Re-organisation and revamp of the BA’s rules and development plans will help though.
And in fact, the Chosun writer seems to agree with you, as you might have guessed from the title translation.
Can you explain in detail what is actually happening inside BKA?
We cannot, unfortunately. Not until the BKA says something publicly. At Badzine, we don’t want to publish rumour or speculation. Even in the Korean corporate media, only that one writer has felt his sources reliable enough to mention this much in a story.