한국 여성체육에서 학교 운동부의 활약 : 덕성여고를 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to examine the role of school athletic clubs in Korean women’s sports history. This study focuses on Duksung Girls’ High School(formerly known as Kunwha Women’s School). Main materials for the analysis are newspapers and school magazines. From the Japanese colonial period to 1990, girl’s school athletic clubs were playing an active part in Korean sports in four stages. In colonial Korea, a small number of girls learned sports in the women’s school class and school athletic clubs. Kunwha had sports clubs, too. Girl’s school athletic clubs participated in sports festivals which could open the way a few girls to become professional sports-women after graduation. After the liberation and in the 1950s, school girls winners of national athletic games began to enter the international games. Since the 1960s, the government actively promoted sports in schools for fostering players. Duksung was one of the typical examples. Duksung supported school athletic clubs, and produced excellent players who could be youth- and national team players. But the establishment of physical education schools, the emergence of popular sports, the more importance of going to University and the lack of student-players had an effect on these clubs. Eventually the last club of Duksung Girls’ High School was disbanded in 1990. Since the Japanese colonial period, athletic clubs of girl’s schools had fostered elite-sports women. These clubs are worth considering in the development of Korean women’s sports. And hope to remember the sweat of the club team-members.