Abstract

‘Sports vouchers’, which allow children and adolescents from lower-income families on basic living to receive tuition aid when they use designated sports facilities, are a representative sports-related social welfare policy of Korea. This study attempted to observe recognitions with sports voucher service through interviews with suppliers and beneficiaries. This study chose case studies. Research subject selection was made using ideal case selection, a standard form of selection. Three facility owners who provide sports lectures and three parents of subjects who take sports lectures in city A were selected. Interviews were conducted from the year 2015-2018 and the data analysis was conducted based on cultural analysis methods. The policy background of sports voucher is as follows. The voucher is to increase the efficiency of government operations in social welfare terms. The sports voucher belongs to express vouchers, welfare-promoted vouchers, and special-purpose vouchers. Next, the problems of sports voucher were as follows. First, there was ‘fragmentation, inaccessibility and unaccountability’. There were a limited range of lectures and issues of inaccessibility in which services could not be received because the residential areas of beneficiaries. The second problem was ‘exploiting institutional loopholes’. In the sports voucher service, immoral events are occurring for the financial profit of these businesses. The last problem was ‘lack of supervision’. Service oversight and enforcement were very loose, and this lukewarm audit can set a precedent for acquiring budget waste. And this study suggests‘Efforts to secure suppliers of many sports" and "Improvement of operation, management, and supervision of sports voucher service.

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