Woo Ki-jeong, 75, chairman of the Songam Golf Foundation, who ran for the 19th Korea Golf Association (KGA) presidential election, pledged to’promote individual consumption tax reduction and abolition’.
In a phone call with Bonjour on the 9th, Chairman Woo said, “I registered my candidate with the heart of volunteering to return the love I had been in golf for 55 years.”
While running for office, Chairman Woo ▲Established a development council with each provincial and provincial associations and affiliated federations ▲Expanded the national team and assigned to regions ▲Promoted the World Amateur Golf Championships hosted by KGA ▲Selected and supported regional golf courses for field training ▲Unreasonable by the government It announced six pledges, including reform on regulations and strengthening the status of’K Golf’. In particular, he emphasized that “we will promote reduction and abolition” of “membership golf course individual consumption tax”, which is considered a long-awaited business in the golf world.
Chairman Woo, when he was a freshman in college in 1965, when he started the golf course business, he was introduced to golf early at the recommendation of his son Song-am, Professor Woo Je-bong. Since then, he joined Daegu CC, which was founded by Woo Je-bong, and has been participating in golf course management for 50 years. The Songambae Golf Tournament, which is proud of its authority in amateur competitions, has been held for 27 years. He also served as the 14th Vice Chairman of the Korea Golf Association, the 14th Busan Asian Games Competition Chairman, and the President of the Korea Golf Course Management Association.
Chairman Woo said, “For more than half a century, I have been involved in the golf industry and created the Songam-bae Championship to cultivate a dream tree and produce players that represent the country.”
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