Rep. Lim Oh-kyung proposes a revision to the National Sports Promotion Act to establish a sports school for the future of Korea (Official)
Jul 07, 2025
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Representative Lim proposed a partial amendment to the National Sports Promotion Act on the 7th, which includes support for early discovery of athletic talents and growth as a world-class sports leader.
The revision is aimed at strengthening the institutional foundation for early discovery and systematic development of talented people in the sports field by establishing a legal basis for the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism to establish and operate a sports school for gifted students. Currently, physical education middle and high schools are operated under the application of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, but it has been steadily pointed out that there is a limit to professional physical education and fostering convergent talents. In particular, voices in the field have emerged that it is necessary to establish leading educational institutions at the national level to cultivate athletic talents who have both sports science and humanities skills. In the AI era, there was a consensus that it is difficult to express the talents of outstanding 'World Class' athletic talents such as Son Heung-min and Kim Yu-na under the uniform current education system that forces everyone to do the same.
The discussion on the establishment of a physical education gifted school was proposed with the aim of providing customized curriculum support to satisfy the study and humanities necessary for sports while focusing on favorite sports as regulatory policies that suppress student athletes, such as the minimum education system and the ban on participating in competitions, lead to students going straight to the business team and entering broadcasting high schools. It is not a regulation on student-athletes, but a policy of 'support'. In the era of population extinction, the number of school sports departments is decreasing, and the policy will is to discover and intensively nurture and support sports talents who have become precious. Just as the Korea National University of Arts intensively nurtures talented people specialized in the arts, it is determined to prepare for the 100-year period of Korean sports by cultivating representative talents specialized in the sports field with Chedeokji. It is a customized policy to support dreamers with outstanding athletic talents such as Son Heung-min and Kim Yu-na, and a legislation based on the voices of student athletes and parents.
Lawmaker Lim Oh-kyung said, `So far, there have been various difficulties in fostering professional student players due to regulations that are not suitable for the field. In the future, through the establishment of a physical education gifted school, we will systematically support excellent physical education gifted students to exercise to their heart's content and grow into world sports leaders" expressed its will to legislate.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
