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With the beginning of the new year in 2019, our members of the Seoul Racing Authority pledge once again. In an era of unpredictable upheaval, Korean horse racing now needs new leadership, and the role of our opponents, who are the centers of Korean horse racing, is becoming more important than ever. The members of the Seoul Racing Authority, the center of Korean horse racing, promise to move away from the framework of the past and protect Korean horse racing through more enterprising and dynamic leadership, and lead real change and innovation. In the new year of 2019, Korean horse racing will follow the symbolic meaning of the golden pig and dream of new hope and leap forward. Pigs have long been auspicious animals, the kidneys that drive out fertility, abundance, and mischievous spirits, and the source of wealth and luck.

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Yeongcheon City announced that it will complete the base horse-riding center selected for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's public offering project in 2013 and start a two-month trial operation from the 13th of this month before normal operation in September this year. The Yeongcheon base horse-riding facility will train about 200 horses a year, including farm-produced horseback riding and retired horses retired from the racetrack, to convert them into excellent horseback riding, and contribute to popularizing horse riding in Korea by auctioning, breeding, and training professional manpower. Yeongcheon City said that Yeongcheon Horse Racing Park, which is being built as the largest in Korea in Geumho-eup, is preparing for an international design contest with 83 percent of the land compensation performance as of July, and that the Yeongcheon Horse Racing Park construction project is underway as planned.

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There are a lot of horses in the upper grades now, so there is no big problem, but if the horse is removed from the upper grades in the future, it may be difficult to organize the race," expressed concern. Jang Byeong-woon, head of the racing system transition TF team at the Korea Racing Authority, said, "We are fully aware of the concerns of related organizations. The current situation is no bigger problem than concerns. We are always monitoring it, and if any problems arise, we will supplement them with flexible responses." Regarding criticism that the race record has slowed down, Jang said, "There are various factors that influence the race record. Therefore, it is unreasonable that the rating is slowing down the race record. The Korea Racing Authority is also constantly examining changes since the introduction of the rating system.

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Despite these various efforts, the negative public perception of horse racing, falling sales due to the long-term economic downturn, the market erosion of the illegal gambling industry, and government-led regulations are getting stronger. In particular, various unfavorable factors such as the implementation of the 52-hour workweek and the still unstable employment system for managers have frozen the market, and the horse racing environment is deteriorating day by day due to weak investor sentiment in the face of each other. However, we can never stop the challenge. Although national policies and practical problems are hampering the development of horse racing, we should make all-out efforts to overcome the internal and external crises of Korean horse racing in the new year.

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Over the past year, Korean horse racing has had an eventful year amid various efforts to overcome the crisis despite many difficulties. In recent years, Korean horse racing has had to go through a lot of painstaking efforts amid a storm of change and innovation, but it has gradually healed the wounds and walked on the path of new challenges and growth amid the efforts of horse racing families to find a new breakthrough. Although there have been many difficult and difficulties compared to previous years, there have been many meaningful events for the internationalization and advancement of Korean horse racing. With the hosting of the 3rd Korea Cup and the successful hosting of the Asia Horse Racing Conference, Korean horse racing has been gradually developing as a member of the global horse racing world.

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There has already been discord among government ministries and agencies. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which is in charge of approval rights, clarified that it has never considered allowing Koreans to use casinos on board. This is because the current law prohibits allowing casinos on board by Koreans. The ministry's push to allow casinos on cruise ships to be used by Koreans is expected to have a significant impact on the legal gambling industry in Korea. In particular, the horse racing industry, which has seen its sales decline due to the growth of competitive gambling businesses such as Sports Toto, lottery tickets and casinos, while exhausting growth engines due to negative images and strong government regulations, is highly likely to be directly hit. As cruise ship casinos allow passengers to stay in for at least three days, leakage of horse racing passengers is expected to be inevitable.

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Safety and environmental management in the production stage are the basic requirements for providing food that the public can feel safe about. In preparation for the introduction of a system to strengthen the allowable standards of pesticides, we have thoroughly prepared to implement the system by conducting circuit training for elderly farmers. In this year, the first year of implementation, we will operate around the system so that the system can be settled, and we will support visiting consulting and preliminary safety surveys to farmers. We will give the pesticide dealers an obligation to maintain records of pesticide sales and expand the target of record management to all pesticides. We will strengthen the standards and management of liquid rain spraying to prevent diseases and livestock odors by establishing facility standards for duck farmers.

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This year, we will continue to adjust production including fallow season, and support other crop cultivation projects by linking maintenance and mechanization of drainage channels. Local food is attracting attention as an alternative distribution system that supplements the limitations of the current agricultural product distribution system and creates stable sales channels for small and medium-sized farmers and local jobs. Since 2018, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has been creating a pilot model to expand the supply of local agricultural products to 14 public institution cafeterias and military units in the border region in Naju Innovation City. This year, we will increase the proportion of local food in Naju public institutions and Hwacheon-Pocheon military meals to 40%,

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Through the Innovation Valley Advisory Committee, we will discover promising export items and focus on overseas marketing as well as quality control. We will expand R&D support for the development of future food products and establish the national food cluster as a mecca for the high-tech food industry. The direct payment system for rice has contributed to the stabilization of farm management, but it has been pointed out that it has deepened the production overgrowth and lacks the function of stabilizing income for crop farms and small and medium-sized farmers other than rice. We will reorganize the direct payment system in the direction of embracing small and medium-sized farms and strengthening the public interest function of agriculture. Rice, fields, and unfavorable direct payments with different payment requirements

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In addition, farming and fishing villages, which can be operated with small capital, have emerged as a pressing concern for numerous farmers, and farming and fishing villages have been rapidly expanding. However, there is a lot of controversy due to the overlapping laws applied to horse racing facilities by ministries and the different regulations and allowable ranges. Although the Horse Industry Promotion Act is still enacted as a special law to foster the domestic horse industry, the Posting Act takes precedence as a law that applies to horse racing facilities, and farmers who quickly started farming and fishing villages as the Horse Industry Promotion Act and the Farmland Act maintain different positions on horse racing facilities are becoming criminals.

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In addition, farming and fishing villages, which can be operated with small capital, have emerged as a pressing concern for numerous farmers, and farming and fishing villages have been rapidly expanding. However, there is a lot of controversy due to the overlapping laws applied to horse racing facilities by ministries and the different regulations and allowable ranges. Although the Horse Industry Promotion Act is still enacted as a special law to foster the domestic horse industry, the Posting Act takes precedence as a law that applies to horse racing facilities, and farmers who quickly started farming and fishing villages as the Horse Industry Promotion Act and the Farmland Act maintain different positions on horse racing facilities are becoming criminals.

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Yeongcheon Mayor Kim Young-seok said, "We will make Yeongcheon an international horse-riding industrial city by converging Yeongcheon's own horse-riding culture software with hardware such as Let's Run Park Yeongcheon, Unjusan Horse Riding Center, and the base horse-riding center." Under the Horse Industry Promotion Act, operators who started operating private horse-riding courses or rural horse-riding courses are happy with lawmaker Kim Woo-nam's proposal for an amendment. In the case of other sports facilities, while the law on the succession of business following inheritance or transfer was clear, there were no regulations on horse-riding facilities. Meanwhile, operators of horse-riding facilities further point out that it is necessary to quickly revise conflicting laws such as the Horse Industry Promotion Act, Posting Act, and Farmland Act, which have been pointed out several times.

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Combining information and communication technology and cultivation technology, which are Korea's strengths, Korea's agriculture can also leap forward into a promising industry that competes with the world. Based on the Innovation Valley, which is scheduled to begin construction this year, we will create an innovative ecosystem in which manpower-technology-production is linked. We will provide young people with in-depth education on greenhouse environmental control and cultivation technology, and provide rental support for smart farms after graduation. By creating a demonstration complex, we will jointly develop new products and technologies with companies in the front and rear such as equipment and food, and establish an open platform for farmers and research institutes to share and trade big data

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We will expand social agricultural practice organizations that provide healing and care services, and provide accounting services to various social economy organizations. We will remodel rural restoration facilities such as grain warehouses and provide them as start-up spaces, while fostering rural convergence management organizations that are linked to production, processing, and tourism. We will support young people to take root in agricultural rural areas. After graduation, we will pay a scholarship to foster young entrepreneurship on the condition that they work for farming, and create a 'youth rural home' with a living infrastructure that combines culture, leisure, and childcare. We will encourage local governments and local communities to take more interest in fostering young farmers by evaluating

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Focusing on the public value of agriculture, we will consider farmers to be the confident actors who make good food and protect the environment, and we will boldly change our policy toward investing in people, including young innovative farmers. Accordingly, we will make creating jobs in agriculture and rural areas a top priority, maintain the vitality of the rural community, and actively pursue six key tasks to establish a production system that the people can feel safe about. Agricultural and rural areas have recently attracted attention as a 庫 for creating new jobs, with the number of employed in the agriculture, forestry and fisheries sectors increasing by 59,000 year-on-year. We will make all-out efforts to continue this trend.

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Yeongcheon City announced that it will complete the base horse-riding center selected for the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry's public offering project in 2013 and start a two-month trial operation from the 13th of this month before normal operation in September this year. The Yeongcheon base horse-riding facility will train about 200 horses a year, including farm-produced horseback riding and retired horses retired from the racetrack, to convert them into excellent horseback riding, and contribute to popularizing horse riding in Korea by auctioning, breeding, and training professional manpower. Yeongcheon City said that Yeongcheon Horse Racing Park, which is being built as the largest in Korea in Geumho-eup, is preparing for an international design contest with 83 percent of the land compensation performance as of July, and that the Yeongcheon Horse Racing Park construction project is underway as planned.

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Just as Dr. Hwang Woo-seok's plagiarism in his thesis produced negative images of stem cells, which dampened the stem cell-related industry itself, the horse industry should not step on such an ex-wife. At this point, the role of the media is important. It is necessary to emphasize the industrial aspect so that the media can grow further without shrinking the horse industry by being tied to the past. The Horse Industry Journal is Korea's first horse-specialized newspaper and is an important media 幹 dealing with the horse industry. We look forward to delivering reports with various perspectives and information so that the domestic horse industry can be more trusted by the people and establish itself as a healthy leisure culture and a familiar life sport in 2019.

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There are a lot of horses in the upper grades now, so there is no big problem, but if the horse is removed from the upper grades in the future, it may be difficult to organize the race," expressed concern. Jang Byeong-woon, head of the racing system transition TF team at the Korea Racing Authority, said, "We are fully aware of the concerns of related organizations. The current situation is no bigger problem than concerns. We are always monitoring it, and if any problems arise, we will supplement them with flexible responses." Regarding criticism that the race record has slowed down, Jang said, "There are various factors that influence the race record. Therefore, it is unreasonable that the rating is slowing down the race record. The Korea Racing Authority is also constantly examining changes since the introduction of the rating system.

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Therefore, the government should boldly break away from the policy of fostering the horse industry, which is weak in sustainability, and present a vision to promote the integrated development of the horse industry through selection and concentration centered on the horse industry special zones from now on. The recent enactment of the Gyeonggi-do Provincial Government Ordinance on the Establishment of the Gyeonggi-do Horse Industry Promotion Fund, which allows 5 percent of the annual leisure tax of 370 billion won, to be used for the horse industry, should be applauded as a groundbreaking measure that gives new hope to the Korean horse industry. Other horse industry special zones should also actively follow good policies and systems. In addition, new development plans should be sought by reorganizing the form,

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There has already been discord among government ministries and agencies. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which is in charge of approval rights, clarified that it has never considered allowing Koreans to use casinos on board. This is because the current law prohibits allowing casinos on board by Koreans. The ministry's push to allow casinos on cruise ships to be used by Koreans is expected to have a significant impact on the legal gambling industry in Korea. In particular, the horse racing industry, which has seen its sales decline due to the growth of competitive gambling businesses such as Sports Toto, lottery tickets and casinos, while exhausting growth engines due to negative images and strong government regulations, is highly likely to be directly hit. As cruise ship casinos allow passengers to stay in for at least three days, leakage of horse racing passengers is expected to be inevitable.

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It seems that it was only a few days ago that I had a new wish after spending a frustrating and turbulent time in 2017 and welcoming the new year of the martial arts in 2018, but I am ashamed, sad, and sad that I have not achieved anything and welcomed the new year. I have also seen a tearful situation in which I have worked full-time despite such difficulties and difficulties, and I have once again joined forces to find a new way for the horse industry. The horse racing industry, which is the eldest in the horse industry, is also growing negative, adding to the sense of crisis. Race horses, professional horse racing farms, horse racing course operators, and horse racing companies are all sighing as they see the black shadow of the horse industry.

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Our industry is currently very poor and small in terms of industry. However, it has a very high growth potential in the future and has the potential to be spotlighted as a high-quality public sports leisure by the people. In particular, the horse industry has already proven in advanced countries that livestock farming is a new alternative livestock industry that has high growth potential and a high vision for added value. Now is the time to catch your breath for two steps forward, and the government needs to think about ways to take the second step forward rather than quantitative growth. It is a very important time to shake off the image damaged by the horse racing corruption and join forces to become a true sports sport. In the long run,

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Horseback riding facilities are for everyone, and most horse-riding facilities are not just for horse-riding businesses for consumers, but for producing, nurturing, and training horses. The main purpose and activities are the same wherever the approval authority is. It is necessary for the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs to embrace and not separate the horse-riding facilities. These are very short periods of professional manpower and are important for the horse industry. Since horse-riding techniques are not simple techniques, farmers who simply produce horses cannot solve this problem alone. Since we do not have many such manpower yet, harmony is needed rather than division.

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In order for the agendas presented through the forum to be applied to actual industries, it is necessary to analyze successful advanced overseas cases together and ask for help from overseas experts if necessary. Looking at the successful case of France that we will benchmark, the central government led the way to collectively control the industry during the transitional period, separate and operate specialized institutions under the central government, and rebuild the entire industry by establishing various policies for each sector. In particular, we systematized children's education to increase future consumption demand, and as a result, we succeeded in establishing a very satisfactory horse riding industry. As the growth of the invested industry has been effective to some extent,

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Since the enactment of the Industrial Promotion Act at the end of 2011, the horse industry has grown rapidly due to the efforts of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, but has gone through a transitional period in recent years. I believe that this time is not a recession but a period of leap forward. We believe that the period of leap forward will soon enter the maturity period, and what we need the most before going into the stage of stabilization is the training of professional manpower. Industrial training through specialized organizations is essential so that professional manpower with basic education can be directly put into the actual industry. The training manpower produced through this process will be of great help to the horse industry, which is struggling.