The Korea Handball Association announced on the 26th that it held the ‘2026 Regular General Assembly of Representatives’ at the Olympic Parktel in Songpa-gu, Seoul and intensively discussed ways to strengthen the competitiveness of the national team.
Attending the general meeting on this day were major domestic handball figures, including Kwak No-jeong, president of the Korea Handball Association and CEO of SK Hynix, heads of provincial and provincial handball associations in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Busan, men’s national team coach Cho Young-shin, and women’s national team coach Lee Gye-cheong.
The attendees agreed to quickly raise the national team’s power ahead of the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games to be held in September and to restore the status of K-handball, which impressed the people by dominating international competitions in the past.
Kwak No-jeong, president of the Korea Handball Association, is giving a speech at the ‘2025 Regular General Assembly’ held at the Olympic Parktel in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 26th. Korea Handball Association
The association judged that our national team urgently needs to strengthen its competitiveness in both hardware and software, and came up with a plan to strengthen competitiveness in three major directions.
First, in terms of hardware, it was decided to form the ‘strongest national team’ by establishing an optimal system, including reorganizing the player calling process, strengthening the cooperation system of each club, and providing dedicated medical support from the association’s medical committee to prevent key players from being unable to join the national team due to injuries or other reasons. In addition, we decided to form a professional team to analyze the power of our competitors in Asia, including Japan and the Middle East, and to supplement our ability to secure relevant data.
In terms of software, we decided to focus on mental training and strengthening physical strength to restore K Handball’s unique ‘indomitable DNA’.
The presidents of the National Provincial Handball Associations who attended the general meeting also agreed that strengthening the competitiveness of the national team was the top priority, and decided to do their best to expand the base at the level of each province and city and cooperate in convening the best players from local H-League teams to the national team.
Kwak No-jeong, president of the association, said, “To strengthen the international competitiveness of K-handball and take a leap forward, handball players across the country will work together as one team. In addition, in the future, we will tackle various tasks such as entry into Sports Toto and international cooperation such as the Korea-Japan integrated league, and we will do our best to make our handball a sport that conveys emotion to the people and receives support and support.”
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