스포츠문화에서 건강담론의 자발적 진화과정 추적하기: 웰빙과 힐링

Abstract

This study has paid attention to well-being and healing and traced the discourses for them in order to define the voluntary evolution process of those discourses in sport culture. Well-being and healing have been the health discourses intensively mentioned by media since early in the 2000’s. It has been found that there was some gap in the times for the two to be emphasized as well as in their concepts. Well-being is a sociocultural trend highlighted during a socioeconomic plateau and healing during a socioeconomic stagnation. Neo-liberalism and consumerism have been considered as the critical variables which have effects on the formation of well-being and healing phenomena. Even though the Korean developmental neo-liberalism went through an significant inflection point so that some part of macroscopic economic index might be stabilized and at the same time brought about an economic polarization. First, the economic polarization has worsened the reality that the laborers’ quality of life has not been improved, which has made well-being and healing popular among those craving the intrinsic meaning of life. Next, in consideration of the situation that well-being and healing will highly likely to be generated when temporary economic and mental difficulties are triggered with the premise of stable income level, consumerism can be determined as a critical factor to the formation of discourses of the two. On the other hand, in the era of well-being and healing the sport for better health has been an indispensible activity of modern people and recently the sport for well-being has evolved into a sport foe healing focused on curing, which is represented by forests sports.