Kim Un-yong

{{short description|South Korean sport administrator}}

{{family name hatnote|Kim||lang=Korean}}

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| name = Kim Un-yong

| image = Kim Unyong in 2012.jpg

| image_size = 220

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1931|03|19|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Daegu, South Korea

| citizenship = {{flagicon|KOR}} South Korean

| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|10|3|1931|3|19|df=yes}}

| occupation = Former president of the World Taekwondo Federation{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YNQDAAAAMBAJ&dq=kim+un-yong+taekwondo&pg=PA48|title=Black Belt September 1976|date=September 1976|access-date=4 October 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W9QDAAAAMBAJ&dq=kim+un-yong+world+taekwondo+federation&pg=PA8|title=Black Belt October 1977|date=October 1977|access-date=4 October 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20171003000060|title=Ex-IOC Vice President Kim Un-yong dead at 86|date=3 October 2017|website=The Korea Herald|access-date=4 October 2017|archive-date=11 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011085026/http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20171003000060|url-status=dead}}

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| successor = Choue Chung-won

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| alma_mater = Yonsei University

| module = {{Infobox Korean name/auto

| hangul = %김운용

| hanja = 金雲龍

| child = yes

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| website = [http://www.kimunyong.com/ www.KimUnYong.com]

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Kim Un-yong or Un Yong Kim (19 March 1931 – 3 October 2017) was a South Korean sports administrator, vice-president of the International Olympic Committee, and founding member of the WTF executive board.{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3771931.stm |title=IOC official jailed for corruption |date=3 June 2004 |publisher=BBC |access-date=2014-12-21}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3293927.stm |title=S Korea Taekwondo chief held |date=5 December 2003 |publisher=BBC |access-date=2014-12-21}} Kim Un-yong was elected the president of the Korean Taekwondo Association on 23 January 1971.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bd_NrWVI1q0C&dq=kim+un-yong+world+taekwondo+federation&pg=PT214|title=A Killing Art|isbn=9781554906741|access-date=4 October 2017|last1=Gillis|first1=Alex|date=11 January 2013|publisher=Ecw Press }} He received a doctorate in political science in 1963 from the Yonsei University. Kim retired from the WTF presidency in 2004 and was succeeded by Chungwon Choue.{{cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/140188/kim-un-yong-resigns-from-top-ioc-post |title= Kim Un-yong resigns from top IOC post|newspaper=Dawn |date= 21 May 2005|access-date=2014-12-21}}

Kim Un-yong was elected the president of the Korean Taekwondo Association on 23 January 1971. Though he initially declined the position due to the continued conflicts within the organization, he was asked by the Korean government to accept and to clean up the association.

Believing that Taekwondo was a Korean martial art and its governing body should therefore be based in Korea, Dr. Kim dissolved the relationship between the Korean Taekwondo Association and the International Taekwondo Federation.

In 1973, the World Taekwondo Federation was formed and Dr. Kim was elected its first president.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CayyJJg0KIsC&dq=kim+un-yong+taekwondo&pg=PA205|title=Martial Arts in the Modern World|isbn=9780275981532|last1=Svinth|first1=Joseph|year=2003|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ns4DAAAAMBAJ&dq=kim+un-yong+taekwondo&pg=PT73|title=Black Belt March 2001|date=March 2001|access-date=4 October 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6toDAAAAMBAJ&dq=kim+un-yong+taekwondo&pg=PA29|title=Black Belt October 1988|date=October 1988|access-date=4 October 2017}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FaTfuuIlmqcC&dq=kim+un-yong+taekwondo&pg=PA203|title=Martial Arts of the World|isbn=9781598842432|access-date=4 October 2017|last1=Green|first1=Thomas A.|last2=Svinth|first2=Joseph R.|year=2010|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }} Kim played a significant role in debuting Taekwondo at the Olympics and helping South Korea host the 1988 Summer Olympics.

In 2004, he was arrested for embezzlement and bribery charges and sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/03/1086203549014.html |title=Olympic committee vice-president jailed for embezzlement |date=3 June 2004 |publisher=SMH |access-date=2014-12-21}}

Kim has served as president of the Korean Olympic Committee, president of the 2002 Pusan Asian Games organization committee, president of the Korea Taekwondo Association, president of World Taekwondo Headquarters (Kukkiwon), an ambassador at large with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, co-chairman of the Rebuilding Korea Committee, and internationally, he was the president of GAISF, executive board member of the IOC, chairman of the IOC Radio and Television Commission, and president of the World Taekwondo Federation.

In December 2017 he posthumously appeared on the cover of Tae Kwon Do Life Magazine in an issue dedicated to his contribution to the globalization of Taekwondo.{{cite news |last1=Zirogiannis |first1=Marc |title=In Memoriam-Dr. Un-Yong kim |url=https://tkdlifemagazine.com/subscribers-page-current-and-back-issue/ |access-date=3 October 2019 |issue=December 2017 |publisher=Tae Kwon Do Life Magazine |date=December 2017 |archive-date=28 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428232537/https://tkdlifemagazine.com/subscribers-page-current-and-back-issue/ |url-status=dead }}