Suncheon City’s School-Linked Sports Club Project Selects ‘Suncheon-style Ssireum’
[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Hyung-kwon] Suncheon City’s Suncheon-style Ssireum Sports Club, applied for by the Suncheon City Sports Council, has been finally selected in the ‘School-Linked (Single Sport) Sports Club Contest’ hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and organized by the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee.
The selected Suncheon-style Ssireum Sports Club will be operated by establishing a non-profit corporation and will receive a total project fund of 400 million KRW from the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee, supported at 80 million KRW annually for five years.
The Suncheon-style Ssireum Sports Club plans to expand the base of the Ssireum sport by building a virtuous cycle system between professional sports and recreational sports, utilizing Palma Ssireum Arena and Isu Middle School Ssireum Arena as base facilities to operate Ssireum programs accessible to all local residents.
By hiring professional instructors, the club will offer various programs at affordable costs to citizens of multiple layers and age groups, laying the foundation for nurturing sports talents linked to elementary, middle, and high school sports hopefuls. This is expected to introduce a new sports talent development system that overcomes the limitations of the existing unified school sports team athlete development system.
A Suncheon City official stated, “With the selection in this contest, we will operate two comprehensive sports clubs and Ssireum sports clubs. Through these sports clubs, we plan to contribute to citizens’ health promotion by providing citizen-tailored programs suitable for a lifelong sports city as well as fostering elite athletes.”
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Meanwhile, Suncheon City is promoting a project to revitalize ‘Suncheon-style Ssireum,’ which adds excitement and fun by standing Ssireum belt gripping and awarding technical points, differing from the traditional Ssireum match format, marking a nationwide first.
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