It's a matter of selecting the coach of the national soccer team, but..."Hong Myungbo is not invalid".

[Anchor]
The results of an interim audit by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism showed that there was a problem with the process of appointing the national soccer team coach.

However, it was concluded that the appointment of Hong Myung-bo itself was not enough to be considered invalid.

Reporter Lee Dae-gun's report.

[Reporter]
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism believes that there were several problems in the process of appointing former coach Klinsman as well as Hong Myung-bo.

First of all, in the case of the appointment of Hong, not only did the technical director Lee Im-saeng, who was not authorized, recommend Hong as a final candidate,

The final interview process for director Hong was also opaque and unfair.

I also saw it as a problem that the board of directors passed a formal resolution after the announcement of the director's nomination.

As the controversy over the appointment of the coach intensified, the Korea Football Association pointed out that it had distributed several false data and violated related regulations.

[Choi Hyun-jun / Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Inspector: The KFA's overturned claim has also been confirmed to be untrue. It has been confirmed that Chairman Jung Hae-sung did not request the Korea Football Association to follow-up work..]

The process of appointing former coach Klinsmann was also considered a problem.

It was found that the function of the Power Reinforcement Committee was neutralized, Chairman Chung Mong-kyu had an interview in person, and the process of appointing the board of directors was also omitted.

In the end, it was decided that the appointment of Hong Myung-bo was not invalid even though there were many big problems in the process of appointing the national team coach.

[Choi Hyun-jun / Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism Inspector: A procedural defect was found in the process of appointing Hong Myung-bo, but I think it is difficult to judge that the contract with Hong Myung-bo is invalid just because there is a procedural defect.]

This audit found several problems, but it means that there is no effective coercion.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism plans to ask the Korea Football Association to dispose of the audit results at the end of this month, and we are interested in how high the level will actually be in the situation where the Hong Myung-bo system is maintained.

I'm Lee Daegun of YTN.

Reporter for filming
: Ko Min-cheol
Video editing: Oh HWONSEULGI