Purpose: This study started with an interest in sports culture-related content and aims to comprehend the application of traditional and contemporary cultural content to sport business. Research design, data, and methodology: The current study reviews related-documents, research papers, media reports, and a secondary data. The collected data were multiple reviewed via content analysis. Results: Findings are as follow. First, the study found that sports is born in religious rituals which are associated with human needs for survival and prosperity. Second, sports is sort of official format that inherent desire of human could be satisfied, representing play and game. Third, the current study discovered that sports could be cultural products such as literature and film. This is because sport has often been used as major themes in contemporary art production. Finally, this study included important cultural content categories, but could not cover all categories due to the limitations of the study. Conclusions: this study reviewed multiple literature to decode historical and anthropological meanings of sport. The finding presents the cultural traits and meaning of contemporary sport. Further implications were discussed.
Purpose: Prior literature posits that leadership of coach influences athletes' performance via delegate interactions. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the type of instructor on the exercise stress of university athletes and to provide instructors with informative coaching methods especially for their leadership. Research design, data, and methodology: In order to achieve the purpose of the research, Seoul and Gyeonggi Province Materials University athletes were selected as a sample, 360 college athletes participated in the survey and data were screened and finally 314 were analyzed. The collected data were analyzed via descriptive analysis and multiple regressions. To examine the validity and reliability of the survey items, factor analysis and Cronbach's α were computed. Results: Coaches' leadership types are found to influence university athletes' exercise stress significantly. In specific, transformational leadership negatively influences teaching Complaints. Transformational leadership also negatively influences time constraints. However, transformational and transactional leadership do not have any effect on career concerns. transformational and transactional leadership also do not influence functional instability of college athletes. Conclusions: Overall, leadership types of coach partially influence exercise stress of athletes. These findings posit that transformational leadership contribute in developing reliable relationship between athletes and instructors. Further implications were discussed.
Purpose: This study aims to analyze the management environment Provincial and Municipal Professional Soccer Teams based on financial statements at a time when strengthening the financial soundness of domestic professional soccer teams is emphasized. Research design, data, and methodology: This study was sampled using convenience sampling and a total of 607 questionnaires were used. In this study, questionnaires were used as a survey tool, consisting of eight questions in a total of four areas, measuring demographic characteristics, shoe design, shoe functionality, shoe price, and promotion. Results: First, the importance of outdoor brand shoe selection attributes was high in cost-effectiveness, discount, and promotional models, while the satisfaction level was high in shoe size, content, and Model. Second, IPA analysis revealed shoe sizes, promotional models, and discount factors as maintenance and management continuation areas. Content factors have emerged as a competency-focused area. A sense of cushioning and wearing has emerged as an area of further improvement. As a status quo area, shoe laces and cost-effectiveness factors appeared. Conclusions: First, consumers considered the cost-effectiveness of choosing shoes, followed by discounts, and efforts are needed to diversify promotional content to maximize promotion for shoe sales. 3. Domestic outdoor brands are not yet satisfied with consumers.
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to review the current states of new sports imported from foreign countries and to discuss strategic insights for promoting new sports which has been invented in Korea. Research design, data, and methodology: This study employed the qualitative approach, in which reviewed a related literature. First, the study selected flying disc, sports stacking, and T-ball as sample cases. This is because these new sports were recognized the prominent sports frequently played in physical education classes in Korea. Second, the study reviewed prior studies in the field of distribution and marketing in order to determine the criteria of analysis and variables that frequently examined in distribution and marketing studies. Finally, the study confirmed such terminologies as research variables including new sport name, organization name, background of the invented sports, distributional channel, promotional activities and so forth. To collect data, the study search literature via academic search engine including DBpia, KISS, RISS, ScienceDirect, SAGE Journals, SpringerLink, and Taylor & Francis. Results: It was found that all of the imported new sports organized association and its nationwide branches to deliver their sprots to local schools and recreational markets. second, they targeted schools and sought to broaden their markets to recreational communities. Conclusions: In order to promote new sport invented in Korea, associations need to be systematically organized and mission should be clearly stated. In addition, creative methods for promotion need to be developed. Future directions were discussed.
Purpose: A new form of sports human rights platform is needed for policy-related officials, athletes, leaders, and parents to easily share information on sports human rights and to promote communication between the sports community and the outside. Research design, data, and methodology: Participants were collected from athletes (n=3,007) who were registered in Korean Sport & Olympic Committee. Participants were asked to respond the survey items measuring their experiences of human right violations in sport. Descriptive analysis, t-test, and ANOVA were used to analyze data. Results: The platform should include information on prevention and safety of human rights violations during sports activities, procedures and methods for reporting damage, countermeasures, leader education programs, human rights protection guidelines, roles and supervision of sports organizations and institutions, and related statues. It can form a community as well as exchange information in the Internet space through the operation of bulletin boards by professional athletes, student athletes, parents, and leaders, and plays a role in crisis counseling or information provision. Given the reality that players can be blocked from the outside world, information communication channels on SNS can be a useful means of protecting and improving players' human rights. Conclusions: Therefore, it is necessary to provide a foundation for creating related platforms so that sports human rights sites or SNS can be operated voluntarily. Implications and future directions were discussed.
Purpose: This study aims to analyze the management environment provincial and municipal professional soccer teams based on financial statements at a time when strengthening the financial soundness of domestic professional soccer teams is emphasized. Research design, data, and methodology: This study analyzed the financial statements (2018-2020) of the six teams of the provincial and municipal professional soccer teams whose financial statements were disclosed. The statements includes indicators of growth, profit and stability, which represents the main business performance of the entity. Results: As a result of the study, First, in terms of sales growth, sales in 2020 fell sharply year-on-year due to the impact of Covid-19. Second, the increase in sales through the import of player transfer fees had a positive impact on the growth of the business performance of the provincial and municipal professional soccer teams. Third, the profitability of the provincial and municipal professional soccer team is still low. Fourth, the debt ratio of the provincial and municipal professional soccer team was high, indicating that stability was serious. Conclusions: In order to increase sales, various strategies and measures are needed to overcome external factors such as media content products and non-face-to-face content strategies. The provincial and municipal professional soccer team, which has weak self-sustaining operations, needs to generate more profits through transferring players as a new management (profit) model, and first of all, a long-term strategy is needed to secure financial stability by improving the club's profitability.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to generate industrial insights for developing sports movie industry. Related studies are scare. Research design, data, and methodology: The study employed case study and selected typical case samples who seem informative about sport movie industry. The authors interviewed six experts who are experienced in sport movie and related academic sector. Interviews were audio-taped and the text were decoded by multiple reading. Through this process, the study categorized significant meanings and produced results. Interviewees reviewed again the final findings to confirm validity, which calls member check. Results: It was suggested that developmental factors of sports movie were the realization of realistic sports scenes by using technologies. Second, participants told that contents of sport movie need to reflect real stories and it should tell the stories. Regarding constraints of sport movies, movie producers feel difficulty to make scenes in that sports are inherently quickly performed. Another constraints are that production cost is expensive but audiences are barely attended. Conclusions: For promoting economic outcomes and developing sport movie industry, government needs to financially support related markets to support sport movie producers assisting them to concentrate their movie works. Future directions for related-studies were discussed.
Purpose: This study aims to obtain basic data for conceptual establishment of sports participation and perceived benefits by considering prior research on the effects of sports participation to derive variables for perceived benefits of sports participants. Research design, data, and methodology: This study used an integrated literature review. A conceptual model is designed with reference to a prior study by adopting a guiding theory. Based on the key words. The literature collection was conducted online, and the reference period for the literature collection was for studies published between 2015 and 2020. Results: First, a total of seven related variables were derived from the literature analysis related to sports participation and physical benefits. Second, a total of six variables were derived from the literature analysis related to sports participation and mental benefits. Third, a total of four related variables were derived through a literature analysis related to sports participation and social benefits. Conclusions: Health fitness, objectified body consciousness, and social body shape anxiety, including body composition, approach physical benefits among perceived benefits through sports participation, and physical self-efficacy and physical self-concepts are related to physical benefits but are also shown to be related to mental benefits. And successful aging is seen to be close to social benefits and related to some mental benefits. Mental and social benefits can be seen as the variables derived from the results being related to the benefits, and more in-depth exploration of perceived benefits is needed.
Purpose: The purpose of this study, we will evaluate and analyze the importance and performance of Seongnam Football Club visitors using IPA analysis to present new marketing strategies and improvement plans based on the basis of the audience's perception of the team's priority, low priority, and excessive effort. Research design, data, and methodology: In order to achieve the purpose of the study, the survey was conducted on 120 home spectators of Seongnam Football Club, and the analysis of the data was conducted using SPSS Window Version 21.0. Data were analyzed via frequency analysis, exploratory factor analysis, corresponding sample t-test, and IPA analysis. Findings are as follows. Results: First, the first quadrant showed 'The convenience of access to the stadium', 'Parking lot convenience', 'Tournament schedule guidance', 'Providing information about player', 'Providing information about the team', 'Ticket reservation method'. Second, the second quadrant showed 'Players' fan service', 'Cleanliness of toilets', 'A player's level of performance', 'Team's level of play', 'A match against a rival team'. Third, the third quadrant showed 'Indication of facility guidance', 'Seat comfort', 'Team's Star Player Possession', 'Various participation events', 'Gift recommendation'. Fourth, the fourth quadrant showed 'Player-related promotion through media', 'Promote match schedules through media', 'Entrance convenience', 'Ticket Price'. Conclusions: Based on these findings, Factor in first quadrant, fourth quadrant should be kept. On the other hand, factors in second quadrant should be improved as soon as possible while factors in third quadrant can be improved through new marketing strategies in the future. Future implications were discussed.