The Korea Sports Association announced on the 12th that Chairman Yoo Seung-min held a meeting with Jung Seok, a member of the National Assembly (Democratic Party) and chairman of the Korea Bowling Association, on the 11th to discuss related issues.

Yoo Seung-min delivers a speech at the General Meeting of Representatives of the Korean Sports Association held at the Olympic Park in Songpa-gu, Seoul on February 28

During the meeting, the exclusion of bowling from the official sports of the Summer Asian Games was raised, and Chairman Jung Seok, a former bowling player, asked the Korean Sports Association to actively support bowling to return to the official program.

Chairman Yoo Seung-min, who is also Vice Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), said, "As a national table tennis player, I know better than anyone else the difficulties of sports. In order for bowling to be adopted as an official sport of the Asian Games, we will actively promote it together with the Korea Bowling Association. ”

In addition, the symposium discussed the use of the bowling alley in the village of the national representative athletes in Jincheon, and Chairman Yoo Seung-min said, "We will study improvement plans to ensure that the national representative athletes can train smoothly. ”

It is reported that there will be no bowling event in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. At the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, there were a total of 6 gold medals in bowling, and South Korea topped the medal table with 2 golds, 2 silvers and 2 bronzes.