한국전통사회에 있어서 스포츠 활동의 경제적 가치

Abstract

This study is to investigate and reveal the rewards obtained from the sports activities compared to the economic value of the time in the Korean traditional society. The chosen time settings for this study are Goryo dynasty, Joseon dynasty, and the period of japanese colonialism and the sports activities in this study refer to all the physical activities of the custom, play and military applications at that time. To begin with, the physical activities which centered around the traditional folk games were performed as a part of the ritual longing for the good harvest of the agrarian society, a main agent of economic activity and the fertility, in which there were individual games such as Ssireum (Korean wrestling) and Subak (Martial arts with bare hands), but most of the games were of the features of the team games such as Juldarigi (Tug-of-war), Chajeon Nori (Chariot Battle), Gossaum Nori (Loop Fight), Seokjeon (Mock fight with stone missiles). Rewards of the victories in these games are the good harvest, the fertility, and the assurance of well-being, which are the divine economic values. And the physical activity as martial arts were performed in the form of training for military reinforcement, the rewards of which were the promotion of the position and status as well as the material reward. Material rewards were cotton cloth, hemp cloth, sliver-ware, and bow required in everyday lives which the kings bestowed on the winners and although the economic reward to the physical activities in those days didn't reach today‘s level but did amount to a considerable value. In particular, the new light should be shedded on the fact that the economic rewards of the physical activities in the folk games which were mainly the invocation for Divine guidance were considered as more valuable than the rewards of the king and certain individuals to the excellence in the martial arts, through which the cooperation and cohesion between the tribes and the groups came to be strengthened.