2015 SU Update: GUOC Sets up VOP

Gwangju World Cup Stadium 

GWANGJU – The 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee (GUOC) is setting up a venue operation plan (VOP), as the event is only three years away.

A VOP is a final step for preparing the event and can be used as a job description manual for staff and volunteers during the event. A VOP is a real simulation scenario while the Action Plan, which completed last year, is a description of responsibilities in each field.

The GUOC will start working on a VOP this month in 68 fields including 43 sports facilities and 25 non-sports facilities, and will have finalized the plan by the end of 2012. 

The plan will include scenarios at sport venues and non- sporting venues such as athlete’s village and headquarters hotels as well as supporting functions such as logistics, transportation, anti-doping, international cooperation, protocol, medical support, telecommunication and media. The plan will systemize all tasks related to the event, specifying types of human resources, material resources, job qualifications, and work processes. 

The GUOC will select the World Cup Stadium as a standard model venue, which will be used as the main stadium in the Universiade and establish a model plan based on a field inspection. In the second half of this year, the GUOC will establish plans for other sports arenas. 

The established plans will continue to be revised and upgraded until 2015 based on experts’ consultations and test events.

Kim Yoon-suk, the Secretary General of the GUOC, commented, “A venue operation plan is the last stage of event preparation. The GUOC is at least one year ahead of the schedule.” He also imparted his strategy for the VOP saying, “We are going to prepare for the event systematically by planning ahead. Last year, we completed a massive action plan covering 6,500 pages and we have already made a 3,000-page draft of a competition procedure manual this year.”

In the meantime, the GUOC will test the venue operating plan for the 2012 WU Gwangju Badminton World Championship, which will be held from November 6^th to November 11^th at Yeomjoo Main Stadium in order to improve the efficiency and build competence in actual operation.  

(Source: GUOC)