An exploratory examination of risk-management practices in South Korean community sport clubs* Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Club sport participation in South Korea is increasing at an unprecedented pace. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the risk-management policies and practices of sport clubs in South Korea. Specifically, this study investigated a broad spectrum of issues including the number of injury-related lawsuits, risk-management polices/practices, and legal implications in sport clubs. This study was conducted using a self-developed 36-item questionnaire that was distributed by five trained survey couriers who obtained completed surveys from 304 sport club managers by visiting various sport/recreation facilities in South Korea. Overall, the results of this study revealed that risk-management policies and practices of sport clubs were not conducted in a consistent manner although most managers experienced or observed a significant number of sportclub- related injuries. The vast majority of injuries, however, did not result in lawsuits.

published proceedings

  • Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science

author list (cited authors)

  • Kim, S., Seidler, T. L., Connaughton, D. P., & Spengler, J. O.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Kim, Sungwon||Seidler, Todd L||Connaughton, Daniel P||Spengler, John O

publication date

  • January 2017