{"id":10539,"date":"2011-01-17T06:40:06","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10539"},"modified":"2011-01-17T06:40:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T11:40:06","slug":"ousted-korea-gp-chief-to-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ousted-korea-gp-chief-to-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousted Korea GP chief to sue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Korean grand prix chief Yung Cho Chung is preparing to challenge the decision to oust him.<\/p>\n<p>Barely a month after collecting the FIA prize for the best promoter of 2010, Chung was accused of lax management during a board meeting of organisers Korea Auto Valley Operation (KAVO) last week and dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s race contract extends for at least six more years and it was believed that Chung and F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone had a strong relationship.<\/p>\n<p>A source close to Chung told the Korea Herald that he is now preparing to sue KAVO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He said he couldn&#8217;t accept the decision because there was something wrong in the procedure,&#8221; KAVO spokesman Jung Ji-hyun confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is now in discussion with his advisers as how to file a lawsuit,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The delay in construction of the Yeongam circuit aside, Chung was accused of mishandling expenditures and going over budget.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korean grand prix chief Yung Cho Chung is preparing to challenge the decision to oust him. Barely a month after collecting the FIA prize for the best promoter of 2010, Chung was accused of lax management during a board meeting of organisers Korea Auto Valley Operation (KAVO) last week and dismissed. South Korea&#8217;s race contract &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[5262,5340,2330,1282,2685],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10540,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions\/10540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}