Sports clubs are blatantly causing trouble wherever you go these days A reporter who visited a public badminton court in Seoul asked if there were any seats because it was so crowded, and they said that they were currently unavailable because their own club was using it Despite being a public facility, there was a bulletin board with a specific club’s attendance list and membership fee payment status posted, and the members gave a strange answer that if you wanted to play here, you had to join their club
Even outside, there were posters recruiting members and they were even illegally selling private lessons. And just like any other public tennis court, this one was monopolized by a certain club, and even if you applied, the executives had to go through a screening process for new members…
Even though the manager warned them that exclusive use was illegal, they are still acting boldly, and even though the local government put up signs and banners prohibiting exclusive use, the club’s behavior is said to be causing headaches. Is it really right to monopolize public facilities installed by the country for the entire nation like this? It would be good if large-scale crackdowns and education could help transform them into spaces that everyone can use together.