Kang Young-joong | |||||||||||
Birth Date: | 27 July 1949 | ||||||||||
Birth Place: | Jinju, South Gyeongsang | ||||||||||
Known For: | Chairman of Daekyo Group | ||||||||||
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Kang Young-joong (; born July 27, 1949), the chairman of Daekyo Group,[1] the largest private tutoring company in Korea, served as the President of the Korea Scout Association from March 7, 2008 to April 16, 2012.
Kang served as the Badminton World Federation president from 2005 to 2013.[2] On March 23, 2015, he was inaugurated the fourth President of the Korea Sports Safety Foundation.
In 2011, he was awarded the highest distinction of the Scout Association of Japan, the Golden Pheasant Award.[3]