사회트렌드와 스포츠(2): 건강양극화와 스포츠

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the problem, the reality, and the approach perspective of health polarization in Korean society. Moreover, this article analyses the role models of sports from the perspective of the ternary cycle structure as a way to find solutions. Signs of health polarization in Korean society are confirmed by analyzing various social and statistical indicators, and they are evaluated at a serious level. Compared to the serious reality of health polarization, socially responsible entities tend to be indifferent. However, health polarization deserves attention from ethical, social, and economic perspectives regarding disparities in health outcomes, access to health care, and social determinants of health. In establishing a win-win model to minimize the gap between health polarizations, the roles of physical education in schools, daily physical education, and lifelong physical education are more important than anything else. In order to find a solution to health polarization, establishing role models for physical education and sports must be approached from a binary opposition of either/or to a triadic cycle structure of creative convergence thinking. The ternary circular structure is a creative thought, which aims for both and by decoding the either-or of binary opposition. Consequently, physical education in schools and lifelong physical education, which are the subjects of the triadic cycle structure, should be systematically promoted. In parallel, a government-led type, from the perspective of education, and lifestyle sports, government-led policies, and market-led operations, from the perspective of guidance and voluntary choice, should be promoted. This may result in a possible resolution to the polarization of health issues.