{"id":1019,"date":"2026-04-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.34.14.113\/en\/2026\/04\/14\/golf-inc-korea-chairman-young-chan-kim-named-asias-most-influential-figure-in-the-golf-industry-by-golf-inc-for-the-fourth-consecutive-year\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T06:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:15:32","slug":"golf-inc-korea-chairman-young-chan-kim-named-asias-most-influential-figure-in-the-golf-industry-by-golf-inc-for-the-fourth-consecutive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/golf-inc-korea-chairman-young-chan-kim-named-asias-most-influential-figure-in-the-golf-industry-by-golf-inc-for-the-fourth-consecutive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"[Golf Inc. Korea] Chairman Young-Chan Kim Named Asia&#8217;s Most Influential Figure in the Golf Industry by &#8216;Golf Inc&#8217; for the Fourth Consecutive Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_4266042310256a10.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1018\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_4266042310256a10.png 600w, https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/img_001_4266042310256a10-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&lt;Cover of the April\u2013May issue of Golf Inc. Korea&gt;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the 2026 ranking of Asia&#8217;s most influential figures in golf selected by the global golf industry magazine Golf Inc., GOLFZON Group Chairman Young-Chan Kim has been named No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Golf Inc. explained its selection by noting that &#8220;through GOLFZON&#8217;s rapid international growth and continuous innovation in simulator technology, the company has firmly established its leadership in modern golf and continues to wield global influence. In particular, CITY GOLF, unveiled at the PGA Show, is characterized by playing the long game on GOLFZON&#8217;s golf simulators and the short game and putting on a green area built to resemble a real course.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2026 ranking of Asia&#8217;s most influential figures in golf selected by the global golf industry magazine Golf Inc., GOLFZON Group Chairman Young-Chan Kim has been named No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year. Golf Inc. explained its selection by noting that &#8220;through GOLFZON&#8217;s rapid international growth and continuous innovation in simulator technology, the company has firmly established its leadership in modern golf and continues to wield global influence. In particular, CITY GOLF, unveiled at the PGA Show, is characterized by playing the long game on GOLFZON&#8217;s golf simulators and the short game and putting on a green area built to resemble a real course.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"family":[15],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-center","category-media-coverage","family-golfzon-korea"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"family","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.golfzon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/family?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}