2009 May 10: BWF President Election

**chris-ccc** · 03-01-2009, 03:24 PM

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2009 May 10: BWF President Election

The next Badminton World Federation (BWF) president will be elected on 10-May-2009 at a congress in Guangzhou, China.

Andrew Kam from KLRC has been nominated. NST Online Sport interviewed Andrew Kam.
click here

I agree with what he said "Professionalism is the key and we have to take cue from tennis and how ATP and WTA are so successful".

Cheers... chris-ccc

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**george@chongwei** · 03-02-2009, 01:19 AM

i think andrew kam should be a suitable person to be the president imo.
GO ANDREW,! ANDREW FOR PRESIDENT

**ants** · 03-02-2009, 02:36 AM

Battle of Millionaires here...

**Loh** · 03-02-2009, 02:47 AM

Don't tell me another BWF saga will repeat itself in another form ...???

**chris-ccc** · 03-02-2009, 05:25 AM

Originally Posted by Loh

Don't tell me another BWF saga will repeat itself in another form ...???

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This is another match between KOR and MAS.

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**limsy** · 03-02-2009, 05:33 AM

well...i support andrew kam not bcz he is malaysian..bcz he is a good boss...hehe

**Loh** · 03-02-2009, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by limsy

well...i support andrew kam not bcz he is malaysian..bcz he is a good boss...hehe

You mean KLRC have taken you under their wings already?

**limsy** · 03-02-2009, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by Loh

You mean KLRC have taken you under their wings already?

nah....imposible....the plan is turned down as my parent disallow...

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anyway...he very nice...hehe...arcording to my friend...

**Loh** · 03-02-2009, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by limsy

nah....imposible....the plan is turned down as my parent disallow...

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anyway...he very nice...hehe...arcording to my friend...

Maybe your parent is right but not your friend?

***Oldhand*** · 03-02-2009, 09:12 AM

Punch Vs Kang
Deja Vu

**Krisna** · 03-02-2009, 11:39 AM

Originally Posted by ants

Battle of Millionaires here...

Oh, Dr. Kang is a millionaire?

The Datuk and the Dokter should compare policy platforms...

INA will choose whomever can bring commercial popularity of badminton...

**krisss** · 03-02-2009, 12:23 PM

:-( Wheres my name in the elections

This forum should become the presidents/presidentees

**Loh** · 03-02-2009, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by Oldhand

Punch Vs Kang
Deja Vu

Unfortunately Punch was knocked out by Kang, no thanks to the heavy arm of Msian politics.

Now another "more acceptable" Msian heavyweight ($$$) will contest Kang for the title.

This will provide rather interesting tidbits for us in between baddy tourneys!

Hopefully badminton will end up the winner!

***Oldhand*** · 03-02-2009, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by Krisna

Oh, Dr. Kang is a millionaire?

The Datuk and the Dokter should compare policy platforms...

INA will choose whomever can bring commercial popularity of badminton...

Kang Young-joong is not a millionaire.
In fact, he is a trillionaire... in Korean terms!

Dr Kang is one of South Korea's richest people.
His net worth (USD 750 million) is KRW 1,175,250,000,000.
That's 1.175 trillion Korean Won

He owns the Daekyo group, the world's biggest name in after-school private education. A while back, he also acquired Fermat - the huge online education firm. Last year, he abandoned retirement to re-work Daekyo after it began losing business momentum.

Daekyo means 'big lesson'.
That's why it's ominous whenever Dr Kang decides that someone must be 'taught a lesson'

**taneepak** · 03-02-2009, 11:11 PM

But Korean trillionaires or billionaires have all tanked this year. Malaysian millionaires are not as badly affected as Koreans, thanks to its exchange control barrier.

**Krisna** · 03-03-2009, 11:22 PM

Originally Posted by Oldhand

Kang Young-joong is not a millionaire.
In fact, he is a trillionaire... in Korean terms!

Dr Kang is one of South Korea's richest people.
His net worth (USD 750 million) is KRW 1,175,250,000,000.
That's 1.175 trillion Korean Won

I hope he didn't put his money in Citicorp shares or in US Equities in general...

I wonder how much money he had to inject into BWF these last few years. I have not seen any BWF financial statements for a while. They stopped posting those numbers... maybe too embarrassing [compared to FIFA etc.]...