남북 청소년 스포츠 교류·협력 이행 실태 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the current status of the South-North Korea youth exchange and cooperation via sports. To this end, 43 cases of the South-North Korea youth exchange and cooperation made from 2000 till 2017 were analyzed. There were several events of the sports exchange for people over 25 years, which led by sports leaders or players of South and North Korea; however, those events were excluded in the analysis due to the scope of this study. In addition, there were also unofficial South-North Korea sports exchanges conducted in third nations such as China and led by labor organizations, religious organizations, students’ associations and so on, but since the scope of this study is limited to sports events obtained the official consent of the government, they were excluded as well. The analysis of the ‘Unification White Book’, published by the Ministry of Unification, and the ‘Sports White Paper’, published by the Korea Sports Science Institute showed that the most common type of the South-North Korea Youth Sports Exchange and Cooperation was the exchange via participation in all-around competitions or regulation exchange sports games in Korea or abroad. Soccer was the most frequent form of the South-North Korea youth sports exchange, followed by all-around competition and then, Taekwondo, and as for a region, South Korea was the place in which the most no. of the South-North Korea youth sports exchange was held, followed by North Korea (Pyeongyang) and then, China. From 2000 to 2017, the total cost spent for supporting the social/cultural cooperation and visitation between South and North Korea was very small, only 0.89% of the South-North Korea Cooperation Fund. There were 10 cases in which a word ‘youth’ was used in the name of the event and the age of the participants was 24 years old or under. This study suggests to separate the youth sports exchange from the political and military issues between South and North Korea, promote friendly match games in which participants can visit each other’s nation, change from the elite-oriented sports exchange to the sports-for-all oriented sports exchange, promote the youth sports exchanges by using three northeast provinces of China, and include the South-North Korea Youth Sports Exchange and Cooperation in the South-North Korea Cooperation Fund even at its planning stage.