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During the process of training to ride a colt, it fell together with the horse and got run over by it, getting injured. Since then, I developed aftereffects from my ankle. Even now, I can’t run at full speed. There is currently no major impact on Gyeongju, but at the time it had an impact. My ankle was swollen from a ligament tear and fracture, but because I wanted to keep riding for the race, I said I had a sprain. Limping, I tried to ride even one more horse. At that time, a full recovery was not properly achieved, so there are still slight aftereffects present now.

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Moreover, when the “Act on the Promotion and Support of the Cruise Industry,” which allowed onboard cruises, was being reviewed in the National Assembly, criticism is pouring in because, when concerns about gambling were raised, he promised to “strictly limit entry to nationals,” only to reverse his position just three months later after the law passed the National Assembly this February.Discord is already arising even in coordination among government ministries. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which oversees approval authority, bluntly stated that it has never considered allowing domestic nationals to use onboard casinos. This is because allowing domestic nationals to use casinos is prohibited under current law.

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We horse racing people have many wishes. Among the world’s 49 professional horse racing countries, they attended to convey the hopes of many in the racing community, including calls for a reduction in the brutal tax that effectively exceeds 50% and for the revival of online betting. The two main points that horse racing enthusiasts, mainly in the Busan area, signed were the revival of online betting and a reduction in taxes related to horse racing. As one of the horse racing professionals and also as an executive of the association

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As the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries pushes to allow domestic nationals to use cruise ship casinos, it is expected to have a considerable impact on the domestic legal gambling industry as well.In particular, the horse racing industry, whose revenue has been declining under the weight of negative public perception and the government’s strict regulations, which have drained its growth momentum and are being overtaken by the growth of competing gambling businesses such as sports toto, lotteries, and casinos, is highly likely to take a direct hit.Because cruise ship casinos allow customers to stay overnight for at least three days while accessing them, the outflow of horse racing customers is expected to be inevitable.

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The Korea Racing Authority should also make great efforts, but those who run the country need to take an interest and keep a close eye on it. Since Korean horse racing is also making its way onto the international stage as G2, it is also necessary to create many conditions befitting that. I hope you will provide much support and attention so that the environment for horse racing in Korea can improve further. I also hope that the state and the Korea Racing Authority will pay attention to improving welfare and human rights issues concerning horse-related personnel, especially handlers.

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If the environment and culture of horse racing are improved so that horse racing can be enjoyed as a leisure activity, and the horse racing industry is revitalized through this, the horse industry will also become more active. I believe that revitalizing the horse industry can also provide great benefits to our society.First of all, I think it would be wonderful if the next government would listen to the demands of horse racing fans and reflect them in legislation. Many people, including horse racing fans, signed it,

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Currently, the payout rate of horse racing in our country is 73%, which is far too low compared with the OECD average. Even in Japan, it becomes 75.1%, and in Hong Kong, 78.1%. In countries like the United Kingdom or Australia, it reaches as high as 89%. Our country takes too many taxes off people. On top of that, there are many horse racing taxes, including a 100% increase in entrance fees, double taxation at more than 100 times the rate, and refunds exceeding 2 million won. So the content is that horse racing taxes should be reduced.

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Horse racing is a sport that can be fully enjoyed as a leisure activity. The reason for organizing this gathering today is to improve the negative image of horse racing, which is perceived by people as gambling despite being fully enjoyable as a leisure activity. In addition, it is to create a public forum to discuss tax issues unfavorable to us horse racing fans and the reintroduction of online betting ticket sales. I stopped online betting ticket sales around 2009, and I thought that such a public discussion platform might be necessary to bring online sales back into practice.

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Just because it’s called a riding horse doesn’t mean you expect it to be at the level of what equestrian athletes ride; it’s meant to be comfortable to ride. Six months is enough. Six months can be long, or it can be short. I think if you focus on the process, it could be done in three or four months.In the case of Hallama, it is currently 4 to 500 million won per bird. After three to four months of training, the price rises to as high as 8 to 9 million won. It is the value of a trained horse. As long as the training system works properly, it doesn’t suffer any loss.

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Build part of the horse there so that Jeju horses can enter, be trained, receive training on the main course, and then come.For farms that lack well-equipped facilities, the Jeju Horse Producers Association has independently secured a certain amount of provincial funds to operate the Seongeup Breeding Center. We are renovating the facilities. Although a mid- to long-term roadmap has been established, infrastructure is necessary for the hiring criteria based on the process to be implemented.

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They estimated that Korea’s illegal markets currently amount to 100 trillion won and urged the Gambling Supervision Commission to conduct regular surveys on illegal gambling and to develop policies aimed at absorbing illegal markets as much as possible into legal markets. He emphasized that to bring the demand from illegal markets and the gambling industry flowing overseas into the legal market, the competitiveness of the legal gambling industry must be secured through improvements in refund rates, betting methods, and other measures, while also establishing an intergovernmental crackdown system to bring the funds that have formed an underground economy to the surface and utilize them as social capital.

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Since last year, the province, the Jeju Horse Producers Association, and the Korea Racing Authority have come together to carry out the project. Although it was in the early stages, it was persuaded of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and eventually reached the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, but the special zone funds were not sufficiently provided. Through another route, we secured 400 million won in national funds and 400 million won in provincial funds, but as the project progressed, various internal regulations and legal issues made it impossible to use them.

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Minister Yoo Ki-joon emphasized, “Since each cruise tourist spends about $1,000, it has added value comparable to processing 10 containers.” If 3 million people use it, it would generate an economic ripple effect of more than 3 trillion won annually. Moreover, if domestic residents are allowed access to shipboard casinos, the economic effect is estimated to exceed 4 trillion won.There are also considerable voices of criticism against the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries’ push to allow domestic residents to use onboard casinos.Since 2013, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has designated the promotion of the cruise and marina industries as a key task for the ministry, and has shown a particularly strong obsession with onboard open casinos.

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Kim Moon-young, publisher of this paper, said, “The legal private industry is managed and supervised under relevant laws in each sector, but it is struggling under the double regulation of overlapping regulations imposed by the Private School Discrimination Investigation Act. To prevent the spread of illegal gambling, we need to strengthen the competitiveness of the legal gambling industry, so I asked Park Sung-ki, Secretary General of the Gambling Supervisory Commission, “How about changing the name of the commission to the Illegal Gambling Management and Supervision Commission to better reflect its significance in launching?”Regarding this, Secretary-General Park Sung-ki said, "If the Disciplinary Committee Act is abolished, there will be confusion among the public. It was stated that a second “Bada Story” incident could be repeated, and “In the long term, the Disciplinary Committee needs special judicial authority over illegal gambling.”

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After receiving approval, we made a public announcement, and last year we held an explanatory meeting for therapists, assistant trainers, trainees, and owners.We created a standard manual last year. There is every single way to nurture and train. It was produced by capturing the actual training process on a CD.The problem is that after having all the materials prepared, "I made this. Although they said, “Please attend,” many farmers did not come, and there were things they did not know. That didn’t mean I could just leave it alone either.

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They are not limiting themselves to horse racing tracks or merely promoting the event; instead, they are visiting farms that have grown to the scale of those in the eastern and western regions to demonstrate it firsthand. It shows scenes of actual training. By doing so, many nearby farmers attended.One may have doubts about the effect of the standard manual. So we designated a pilot farm. Among the producers, we designated four farms that are well-equipped and motivated. We selected 24 animals from your farm and are actually training them according to the manual.

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Graduates who learned that process and manual at school come out to carry out that process professionally. For example, after completing the training process, a student graduates, signs contracts with 15 farms, and regularly visits them, training those horses according to their needs and the process. The plan is to provide them with training expenses and enable them to make use of horses, rather than having them enter the racetrack or stay long-term after joining and pay a management fee. We are working together in close cooperation with the school.

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Knowing that other farms are also benefiting, we hope it will be distributed quickly.First, there is the problem of aging farms. Aged farming households cannot do this work even if they want to do it together. We are also discussing another suitable policy with Jeju Halla University. The professor would make the standard manual, but since he couldn’t do it alone, students came in and handled the practical work. We are planning to link the timing of these students’ graduation with job opportunities.

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In its major business report that day, the Korea Racing Authority said, “We will complete the Yongsan themed space ahead of schedule and promote a new concept of off-track model,” adding, “We will develop it into a multi-purpose cultural space that offers a variety of experiential opportunities such as education and play for families.”Meanwhile, when Yoo Seong-yeop, a lawmaker from the New Politics Alliance for Democracy, who had expressed last year’s parliamentary audit that he was absolutely opposed to establishing off-track betting centers, asked, “Do you not plan to increase the number of virtual horse racing tracks to 32 in the future?” Chairman Hyun replied, “We cannot increase them.”

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Jeju Halla University, which produced the training manual, and representatives from the pilot farms meet once a month to present the results and address any difficulties, refining the manual accordingly.After this process goes on to some extent, the horse created according to the manual comes out. Data tracking will be used to compare horses that have undergone training at demonstration farms with other horses, based on age. We will track and fear just how much the timing of race entries is getting earlier, and what the results are after they are entered.

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Minister Yoo Ki-joon emphasized, “Since each cruise tourist spends about $1,000, it has added value comparable to processing 10 containers.” If 3 million people use it, it would generate an economic ripple effect of more than 3 trillion won annually. Moreover, if domestic residents are allowed access to shipboard casinos, the economic effect is estimated to exceed 4 trillion won.There are also considerable voices of criticism against the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries’ push to allow domestic residents to use onboard casinos.Since 2013, the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has designated the promotion of the cruise and marina industries as a key task for the ministry, and has shown a particularly strong obsession with onboard open casinos.

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Last year, a roadmap was drawn in the mid- to long-term race resource management plan to strengthen the competitiveness of Jeju horse racing. Now, horses that have not been trained, and horses whose training level has not been evaluated at all, also enter directly as racehorses. It takes about 90 days from starting training here to going to the race. We cannot continue with this system.Gradually, at first, some of the horses that have completed the departure inspection are allowed in.

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As the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries pushes to allow domestic nationals to use cruise ship casinos, it is expected to have a considerable impact on the domestic legal gambling industry as well.In particular, the horse racing industry, whose revenue has been declining under the weight of negative public perception and the government’s strict regulations, which have drained its growth momentum and are being overtaken by the growth of competing gambling businesses such as sports toto, lotteries, and casinos, is highly likely to take a direct hit.Because cruise ship casinos allow customers to stay overnight for at least three days while accessing them, the outflow of horse racing customers is expected to be inevitable.

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Second, we drew a mid- to long-term roadmap so that it would not end with simply creating and distributing a manual. Just as a study pattern is determined by the college entrance system, it is important to set the conditions and direction for joining as a racehorse. Just as it takes at least five years to reach the level of fear in the training process, we cannot do it immediately, but we will begin by signaling how the requirements for entering the racehorse industry will proceed step by step in the future, and what preparations producers and owners need to make.

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First, we prepared a “school system” that organizes the production process systematically. Last year, we first reviewed good research materials on how to handle production of things like Seorabad, and how to develop them in the early and late stages. There is plenty of information about the Seorabad both abroad and in Korea, but there was not a single record of the Jeju horse. The standards related to Seorabad could not be applied to Jeju horses. So last year, we created a standard manual for production, breeding, and training suitable for Jeju horses,