The purpose of this study is to identify the differences in school attitudes among middle school students according to their participation in school sports club, participation period, frequency of weekly participation, and number of competitions. For this purpose, 520 middle school students who...
Author(s)
Lim EunJu; Lee DeaJung
Publisher
Badebio Biotechnology Ltd., Eskisehir, Turkey
Citation
Natural Volatiles & Essential Oils, 2021, 8, 4, pp 718-730
Adolescents in South Korea have been facing physical (physical inactivity) and social-emotional (e.g., bullying and suicide) challenges in the last few decades. To address these issues, the Ministry of Education in South Korea implemented School Sports Club as a part of the school curriculum....
Author(s)
Cho Kyuil; Tsuda, E.; Oh Daekyun
Publisher
Routledge, Philadelphia, USA
Citation
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2023, 94, 4, pp 9-13
Asian countries have emerged as an important player in international sport business. In particular, China, Japan, and Korea are frequent hosts of the Olympics, FIFA World Cup, and other international mega sports events. At the same time, their domestic sports industries also have grown...
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Global Sport Management, 2019, 4, 2, pp 121-209
This study aimed to analyze the characteristics of injuries and illnesses that occurred during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games for Korean team by using a prospective cohort design. In total, 204 Korean athletes competed in 24 sporting events during the Olympic Games. The entire medical staff of the...
Author(s)
Yoon JungJoong; Bae MoonJung; Kang HyunYong; Kim TaegYu
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd, London, UK
Citation
International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 2018, 13, 6, pp 939-946
Anyone can participate in sports, but not everyone has the opportunity to do so. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors causing inequality in sports participation based on the causes of the disparity in sports facility utilization in South Korea. Based on ecosystem theory, factors...
Author(s)
Kang Minuk; Lee Youngjik
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022, 19, 8,
Despite burgeoning literature on the agency of sports coaches and the nature of coaching fields, scant attention has been paid to the process through which coaches' identities are socially constructed. Informed by Goffman's concept, total institution, and Scott's reinventive institution, this...
Author(s)
Kim YoonJin; Dawson, M. C.; Cassidy, T.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Sport, Education and Society, 2020, 25, 1, pp 84-97
Governments and also local councils create and enforce their own regional public health care plans for the problem of overweight and obesity in the population. Public sports facilities can help these plans. In this paper, we investigated the contribution of public sports facilities to the...
Author(s)
Han EunJin; Kang Kiyeon; Sohn SoYoung
Publisher
Global Network of Geospatial Health, Naples, Italy
Citation
Geospatial Health, 2018, 13, 1, pp 48-55
Has sports nationalism policy moved South Korea's cultural ecosystem backward? South Korea's sports nationalism policy began in the 1960s with an aim to restore its tarnished national pride. With the government's full support, the policy served as momentum to lay South Korea's unique institutional...
Author(s)
Park KyoungHo; Ok Gwang
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
International Journal of the History of Sport, 2022, 37, 7, pp 787-801
Objectives: To report injury patterns in elite judo athletes expected to represent Korea in future Olympics and investigate their relationship with heart rate variation. Methods: From 2018, we prospectively collected data on elite judo athletes at the Korean Training institute. The athletes were...
Author(s)
Park, K. J.; Jeong, D. N.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Science & Sports, 2022, 37, 5/6, pp 496.e1-496.e7
Club sport participation in South Korea is increasing at an unprecedented pace. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the risk-management policies and practices of sport clubs in South Korea. Specifically, this study investigated a broad spectrum of issues including the number of ...
Author(s)
Kim SungWon; Seidler, T. L.; Connaughton, D. P.; Spengler, J. O.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science, 2017, 6, 1, pp 87-98