The information is official: Lee Kee-heung, president of the South Korean Olympic Committee, is a candidate for a position as an IOC member. According to a leader of the organization, he sent his letter of application to the IOC on Friday June 16, where it will be examined by the elections commission. The South Korean Olympic Committee (KSOC) launched a procedure at the beginning of June to find a candidate likely to join the IOC at the September session in Lima. The country currently has one full member, Lee Kun-hee, and another under the Athletes' Commission, Olympic table tennis champion Ryu Seung-min. But the first, honorary president of the Samsung group, who joined the IOC in 1996, has been hospitalized since May 2014 and has no active role within the institution. As for the second, elected by his peers at the Rio 2016 Games, he will not be able to remain a member of the IOC for more than 8 years. Presented from the start of the process as the most legitimate candidate, Lee Kee-heung will first have to convince the IOC Elections Commission, then the Executive Board. The latter will study the applications during its meeting on July 9 in Lausanne.
