The head coach of the Korean golf team Lee Kyung Jae.


On February 27 to March 2, the Vietnam Golf Association is selecting members for the national golf team to attend the 32nd Southeast Asian Games or SEA Games. The competition for golfers will be held on May 8-13. According to the current regulations, each national golf team has 4 male and 3 female athletes.

At the invitation from the Vietnam Golf Association, the head coach of the Korean golf team Lee Kyung Jae directly monitors the selection of Vietnamese golfers for the SEA Games. The Korean expert also shares his experiences with his Vietnamese colleagues and athletes with the goal of helping Vietnam win medals at the upcoming tournament.

Coach Kevin Lee is eager to contribute to helping golf in Vietnam have talents to reach the international level, improve professional quality, professional golf practice habits for everyone.

The 32nd SEA Games will have 38 sports with a record of 608 events from May 5 to 17, 2023, in Cambodia. 

The previous record was set at the 30th Games in 2019 in the Philippines where there were 530 events of 56 sports.

The Morodok Techo National Sports Complex housed the main stadium with a 75,000 all-seater venue for football and athletics as well as a swimming complex and an indoor arena that can hold 15,000 people.

It will be the first time that the kingdom has hosted a regional sport meet.

Among the sports are athletics, aquatics, badminton, basketball, football, gymnastics, tennis, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling.

Martial arts are important at all Games. Next May, judo, karate, mixed martial arts, pencak silat and taekwondo will be held. Among the mixed martial arts, Cambodia choose their traditional of Kun Bokator and Kun Khmer along with arnis, jiujitsu, kick boxing and Vovinam.

The organisers also bring new and unusual sports to the Games such as obstacle race, traditional boat race and jet ski.

Demonstration sport, tegball, is a ball sport that combines the elements of football and table tennis. It is played on a curbed table. Winners of this sport will receive their medals which are not counted in their teams' medal tally.

The 32nd SEA Games will be held in four destinations.

The most of sports venues will be in Phnom Penh, with Morodok Techo National Stadium and its surrounding facilities hosting the majority of events including the opening and closing ceremonies.

The Olympic Stadium Centre, Chroy Changvar, Sokha Hotel, and Naga World will also host various sports in the capital.

The venues in use outside of Phnom Penh are in Siem Reap (road cycling and marathon), Kep (duathlon, aquathon and triathlon), Kampot (traditional boat races) and Preah Sihanouk (sailing and jet-ski).

After the SEA Games, Cambodia will take charge of the 12th Para Games from June 3 to 9.

List of 32nd SEA Games sports
Athletics, aquatics, badminton, basketball, billiards, boxing, bodybuilding, chess, cycling, cricket, dance sport, E-sport, fencing, floorball, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, jet ski, judo, karate, mixed martial arts, obstacle race, pencak silat, petanque, sailing, sepak takraw, soft tennis, tennis, table tennis, taekwondo, traditional boat race, triathlon, volleyball, weightlifting, wushu, wrestling and teqball.

Dai Nam