Ryu Seung-min, 38, was re-elected as the president of the Korean Table Tennis Association for a term of four years. At the beginning of last year, Zhao, president of the Korean Table Tennis Association, died of illness and was successfully elected as the new president of the Korean Table Tennis Association. The 2020 Busan World Table Tennis Championships originally planned for March is his first task after taking office. However, due to the epidemic, the Busan World Table Tennis Championships were postponed to June, then to 10, and finally to the end of February and the beginning of March next year. Ryu Seung-min had hoped to promote table tennis in South Korea through the World Table Tennis Championships, but all plans were disrupted by the epidemic. Now, Ryu Seung-min is re-elected. He said that it is very important to successfully host the Busan Team World Table Tennis Championships next year, and his goal is to do his best under certain circumstances.
Ryu Seung-min will experience two Olympic Games during his term of office, namely the Tokyo Olympic Games postponed to 202 1 and the Paris Olympic Games in 2024. Ryu Seung-min also bluntly said that he was honored. Korean table tennis team has always been a traditional strong team in international table tennis, especially their male players often play beyond the level in world competitions, and are called "table tennis assassins". Ryu Seung-min himself is the most successful "assassin". In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Wang Hao, a national table tennis player who never won the championship, was defeated 4-2 in the men's singles final, winning the Olympic champion, which gave Wang Hao the most painful loss in his career and Liu, who had just become the head coach of national table tennis at that time. Ryu Seung-min also became the last non-national table tennis Olympic champion in Olympic history. Ryu Seung-min officially retired on February 20 17. Before retiring, he was successfully elected as an athlete member of the International Olympic Committee in 20 16, and his term of office ended in 2024.
Ryu Seung-min got married in May 20 1 1. His wife Li Lunji is five years younger than him. She used to be a model of a TV shopping company, and she was very beautiful. Ryu Seung-min fell in love with a friend at first sight at her wedding, and less than a year later they decided to get married. Li Lunji became a full-time wife after marriage and gave birth to two sons. Today, Ryu Seung-min has successfully transformed from a Korean table tennis player to the helm of Korean table tennis. However, the epidemic made him face great challenges, and Ryu Seung-min also said that it was his responsibility to run the World Table Tennis Championships well.