Park Joo-bong to Coach Japanese Badminton Team By Kim Hyun-cheol - Korea Times Former badminton superstar Park Joo-bong signed up with the Japanese Badminton Association to take over as the head coach of their national team. Park, 40, returned to South Korea on Thursday from Japan after signing the contract with a possible annual salary of 120 million won ($100,000). This is his third job as a national team coach, since he coached the British team in 1999 and Malaysian from the same year to 2002. Starting with a five-month contract, Park is expected to take the job to prepare the team for the 2006 Doha Asian Games. Park was working as a coach with the South Korean Olympic from March and helped the team win a gold, two silvers, and one bronze in Athens. ``I thought of staying here but somehow decided to challenge for a new career after long thought,’’ Park said. ``But I will be back with the Korean team someday for sure.’’ As a player, Park was known as the ‘king of the shuttlecock’ in the doubles events and claimed a total of 52 international titles throughout his career, including a men’s doubles gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and a silver in the mixed doubles at the 1996 Atlanta Games. He is best known as half of the invincible pairing in the men’s doubles with long-time partner Kim Moon-soo in the 1980s-1990s and in 2001 was enshrined in the International Badminton Federation Hall of Fame.
I wonder what language they'll communicate in. I would assume English, but maybe Park Joo Bong knows a bit of Japanese.
I'm sure he will have the use of a translator. Otherwise it was not good practice to employ someone to coach where there is room for ambiguity and misunderstanding!
[size=-1]The Star Online > Sports[/size] Wednesday September 29, 2004 [size=+2]Joo-bong to coach Japanese team[/size] PETALING JAYA: South Korean Park Joo-bong has been appointed as the chief coach of the Japanese national badminton team. Japan have a target to win a medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 40-year-old Joo-bong, who has had a stint as coach of the Malaysian national team, begins work on Nov 1. “It is a four-year contract but they will review it year by year,†said Joo-bong, who is currently in Malaysia. “I have been given the authority to select the players and coaches. I will do the selection during the Japan's national championships in November. “They want me to help them win a medal in the Beijing Olympics. It is a big challenge and I am looking forward to it.†Joo-bong retired from competitive badminton in 1996 and his first foreign stint as coach was in England from 1997-1999. He had a three-year stint in Malaysia from 1999.
It is time for Park Joo Bong to come back home. After helping to lead the Japanese team to its current zenith, Team Korea needs his golden touch. Please coach Park, come back home. KBA, do whatever it takes to bring him back.
Park is committed to Japan 2020. After that??? https://www.thestar.com.my/sport/ba...g-of-south-korea-is-one-of-badmintons-specia/
a thread of 14 years old. Anyway, China needs a national coach to replace LYB. I think Park JB is the man!
pjb has always been the consummate professional from his playing days through now, his coaching days. the success he has achieved, again, from playing days to now, comes from two important traits: 1) intelligence, 2) lack of ego. japan has the been the perfect match for him. like he points out in the interview: nba, players and clubs trust him. pjb trusts nba, players and clubs. it sounds so simple, yet, can any of you think of another nat'l association that possesses japan's level of 2-way trust? having dealt with all of the major associations, i certainly cannot. many of them merely exist for the sake of existing, and then there are the total cluster ****s. pjb's legacy is secure, so, come 2021 who will nba choose to succeed him? who out there possesses #1 & #2?
The bit I found most interesting (and most contentious): I’ve already done my planning from January to December in 2019. And the planning involves our first, second and third teams. I’ve set dates for centralised training programmes, I’ve selected players for all tournaments next year. So he has already chosen the players for tournaments in december 2019? Seems awfully long term and a good explanation for why Sakuramoto and Takahata aren't attending any 500+ tournaments despite their successes and why Fukuman/Yonao do, despite their major dip in form. Seems highly inflexible to me.
true, but it gives the players more time to hit their stride and prove themselves. otherwise we'd start seeing china/malaysia type of attitude towards short term results. that's the last thing i want to see japan turn into... which i doubt they would. it also gives saku/taka more time to gel as a pair in competition. however, if they maintain their current top ten ranking through the end of the year they'll earn top committed player status anyway.
According to this article, he was a player-coach on a Japanese company team as far back as 1999. That was 10 years after he won the mixed doubles title at the Hong Kong Open, playing for Korea.