일본 회사에서 일해보신 분들은 아시겠지만 일본이 이런 행사 준비하고 진행하는 거 정말 잘해요. 회사 워크샵을 가도 15분 단위로 스케줄을 잡고 매우 치밀하게 준비를 하거든요. 그래서 아시아게임 규모의 행사에서 이런 일이 발생하는 것은 정말 이해가 안됩니다. 특히 외국인들이 참가하는 행사에 이런 식으로 운영을 한다는 것은 예전이면 상상하기 어려웠거든요.
원래 일본의 공무원조직이 뛰어난 걸로 유명했는데 그것도 이제는 옛날 이야기가 된 것 같아요. 이것은 행정조직 및 행정관리에서 뭔가 심각한 문제가 있다는 이야기 밖에 안되요. 일본의 경제력이 점점 경쟁력을 잃어가더니 이런 행정적인 업무의 레벨 또한 경쟁력을 잃어가고 있네요. 사실 이런 조짐이 도쿄올림픽때 부터 보이기는 했어요. 오사카 만박때도 그랬구요. 이런 경우 이권이 개입된 경우도 많습니다. 문제가 발생해도 그게 명확하게 규명이 안되고 애매하게 넘어가니까 점점 문제의 규모가 커지는 것 같아요. 한국은 일본은 반면교사로 삼아야 합니다.
🚨 Terrible Planning? Japan’s Asian Games mess is getting worse
Japan skipped a proper athletes’ village and now the problems seem to be piling up:
- Organisers planned for around 15,000 people, but after new sports were added, that number jumped to nearly 17,000.
- Around 4,000 people are staying on a cruise ship, while another 2,000 have been placed in container-style huts at Nagoya port.
- The beds are so short that athletes over 6ft can’t even stretch their legs properly.
- A South Korean team bus was taken to a baseball ground instead of Mizuho Rugby Stadium.
- South Korea Basketball VP Jung Jae-yong described the accommodation as the worst he had ever seen.
- Male and female athletes have been put in the same rooms.
- Coaches, officials and athletes have also been grouped together to make the accommodation numbers work.
- Now, the hosts themselves are looking for alternative accommodation.
- India has even built replica huts back home so its athletes can prepare for what they’re going to face.
- For India, the situation is especially concerning: only three of the 22 male athletes reportedly have accommodation listed against their names, while three of the five women rowers were not registered with the hosts despite having valid accreditation.
- Some hotels assigned to Indian athletes were given to other participants.
- India’s pistol shooting head coach, Samaresh Jung, also faced an accreditation issue that prevented him from entering the players’ arena and field of play.
- South Korea’s men’s football team was an hour late for a recovery session after its scheduled bus failed to arrive.
- South Korean athlete Byeon Jun-hyeong posted a video showing a leaking sink and a soaked floor inside his hut.
- Thailand’s team was sleeping in the airport.
There are so many such stories, hard to cover…this is supposed to be a major international sporting event. How did the accommodation, transport and accreditation planning get this messy?
SURPRISE!! Glacier Bay Books is tabling at SPX, table W60 (by the entrance). We will host signings by Andrew White and Ding Pao-Yen!
Andrew is signing at our table W60 at 2pm Saturday, and we will announce Pao-Yen’s signing schedule shortly~