Abstract

The purpose of this study aims to identify the economic impact value of the community baseball club leagues, a representative daily sport in Busan, and present basic data for the development and revitalization of the leagues. A survey was conducted on 404 individual participants in the baseball leagues, and based on the valid data the production-inducing effects, value-added effects, and employment-inducing effects were identified using the index of 2015 input-output analysis. The results of this study are as follows. The production-inducing effect of the community baseball club leagues was about 33.46 billion won, the value-added effect was about 13.4 billion won, and the employment-inducing effect was 368.7 people/1 billion won. The economic ripple effect analysis data of the community baseball leagues in Busan presented in this study, is considered meaningful in revitalizing the local economy as well as local sports.

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