"Why are you demonizing me"...Lee Ki-heung's 'fierce talk' at the conference to run for the third term.

[Anchor]
Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Sports Council, whose job has been suspended due to various allegations of corruption, officially declared that he will run in the election in January next year.

He said he was "devilized" and appealed for innocence for more than an hour.

This is reporter Cho Eun-ji.

[Reporter]
With enthusiastic support from supporters, Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Sports Council, officially declared his bid for a third term.

He put his current IOC membership to the fore, including ties, badges, and policy visions.

However, Lee spent most of his 77-minute "marathon conference" to clarify various suspicions.

He said he was demonized under the "pressure of all directions" of all power institutions in Korea.

[Lee Ki-heung / IOC member and president of the Korea Sports Council (suspension of duty); He drove me to the corner without any room (space) to step down. What the hell did you do to demonize me like this....]

It is customary for the head of the team to buy hundreds of millions of won worth of health soup, and the inclusion of five civilians in the Paris Olympics observation group is a coincidence and there is no problem with hiring a daughter friend suspected of fraud.

Chairman Lee said that everything was done under the management and supervision of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and that it was a "sacrifice."

[Lee Ki-heung / IOC member and chairman of the Korea Sports Council (suspension of duty): The person who approved it should be responsible for the fault. Something doesn't come out right away, right? It doesn't come out dug like spring water.]

Chairman Lee Ki-heung also mentioned allegations of violations of the IOC Charter, which prohibits government intervention, saying that a high-ranking official of the nation's top institution urged him not to run for another position.

[Lee Ki-heung / IOC member and president of the Korea Sports Council (suspension of duty): "You've worked hard and had a hard time. How about working in another field?" I think we can talk about that personally.]

Chairman Lee Ki-heung, who praised himself for working hard enough to go 100,000 kilometers a year on average without a salary, said when asked about the election situation, he was relaxed that sportsmen would judge well.

With the opposition's discussion on unification struggling, the election for the chairman of the sports committee receives registration for two days until Christmas, with a deposit of 70 million won.

I'm Jo Eun Ji of YTN.

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