By ARD
03.06.2004
On June 3rd 2004 the sentence for WTF Ex-President Dr. Un Yong Kim was spoken at a court in Seoul: two and a half years of prison for the suspended IOC Vice President. The court found it evident that the accusations of embezzlement and bribery were mostly true
With only two and a half years jail term the sentence did not go to the full extent of the seven years that the prosecutors had demanded. The court respected the fact that Dr. Un Yong Kim had promoted Taekwondo as a Korean sport until the inclusion in the Olympic program and therefore had contributed to the development of the countries sports.
Nevertheless, the sentence ended a long term career of a Korean sports politician who has been named as a possible candidate for IOC-presidency not long ago.
