The Korean Sports Association will hold an academic conference to commemorate the 2025 Sports Week on the 25th, seeking sports integration and a new leap forward

Apr 21, 2025

The Korean Sports Association will hold an academic conference to commemorate the 2025 Sports Week on the 25th, seeking sports integration and a new leap forward



The Korean Sports Association (Chairman Choi Kwan-yong) will hold the '2025 Sports Week Commemorative Academic Conference' at the Olympic Parktel in Seoul on the 25th to discuss sports integration and sports policy. This conference will be held under the theme of 「Innovation and Re-Leap for Sports Integration」, and first, we will discuss how to create an inclusive sports environment where the disabled and the non-disabled, the elite and daily sports are together. It will then discuss the legacy succession of the Seoul Olympics and the re-recruitment of the 2036 Olympics. Ha Hyung-joo, chairman of the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, Yoo Seung Min, chairman of the Korea Sports Association, and Jeong Jin-wan, chairman of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled, will deliver congratulatory remarks at the opening ceremony.

Various presentations and discussions will be held at this academic conference on ▶ integrated sports practice strategy ▶ modern reinterpretation of Olympic heritage and economic feasibility of re-recruitment. In the first session, Professor Kim Ji-tae (Dankook University) will present the theme with 'One Sports, One Society', while Professor Soyeon Kim (Ihwa Women's University) and Director Jung Jae-yong (Korea Basketball Association) will introduce integrated sports cases in the field, respectively. In the second session, Professor Lee Won-jae (Kongmin University) presents traditional succession and re-attracting strategies for the Seoul Olympics, while Professor Byun Jin-soo (Yonsei University), Professor Jung Hee-joon (Sports and Culture Solidarity), and Professor Pyeon Hyun-woong (Sungkyunkwan University) analyze the meaning and economic effects of hosting the Olympics.

Through this academic conference, the Korean Sports Association will re-examine the public function of 'Sports Studies' and present social integration through sports and future policy action directions and strategies. Chairman Choi Kwan-yong said, `Sports now have a wide range of values of social integration, national competitiveness, and cultural assets beyond health.' `I hope that the discussion at the academic conference will serve as a starting point for a new leap forward in sports in Korea.'




The Korean Sports Association holds an academic conference every year for Sports Week and continues to make academic contributions to promoting national sports and advancing sports policy. In August 'The 37th Seoul Olympics Commemoration, International Academic Conference' will be held.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.