Korean National Team Research Articles

Self-Reported Symptoms of Exercise-Induced Asthma in Korean National Team Athletes

The prevalence of exercise-induced asthma (EIA) increases markedly in elite athletes. EIA has been extensively studied in Caucasian athletes, but little report has been published in Asian Athletes. PURPOSE: To investigate the prevalence of EIA symptoms, asthma diagnosis, and asthma medication using a validated questionnaire in Korean national team athletes by sex, and types of sports. METHODS: The study population was the year 2008 Korean national team athletes who were training at the Taeneung national training center. The questionnaire was composed of EIA symptoms (cough, wheezing, sputum production, chest tightness and difficulty of breathing), asthma diagnosis by a physician, and asthma medication. EIA symptoms were analyzed by sex and types of sports (record, ball and martial art) using chi-square test at p<0.05. RESULTS: Male (n=172; 24.2±4.3 yo) and female (n=117; 21.6±4.2 yo) athletes from 16 different summer sports completed the questionnaire. Cough (66.3%) and sputum production (62.1%) were often experienced while wheezing (30.9%) and difficulty of breathing (30.5%) were relatively not. None of EIA symptoms was self-reported by about 18% of all the participants, and all EIA symptoms were reported by 9.5%. Asthma diagnosis by a physician was reported 10.9% all the participants and use of asthma medication was only 6.7%. Cough, chest pain and difficulty of breathing were affected by sex. Negative response to cough was relatively less reported in female athletes and negative response to chest pain and difficulty of breathing was less reported in male athletes. Types of sports, especially martial art, affected the prevalence of cough and wheezing. Types of sports, especially martial art, affected the prevalence of cough and wheezing. CONCLUSIONS: Asthma prevalence in Korean athletes was similar to Caucasians. High prevalence of EIA symptoms was found in Korean athletes. This study also suggests sex and types of sports may influence the prevalence of EIA symptoms.

Extensor hallucis longus tendon injury in taekwondo athletes

Objectives Extensor hallucis longus (EHL) tendon injuries can occur in taekwondo athletes when performing hyperplantarflexed barefoot kicking exercises. A state of full excursion of the extensor tendon is used to strike opponents in which the metatarsal bone and the proximal phalanx area is in contact with the opponent. The purpose of this study is to examine the incidence of extensor hallucis longus tendon injury in taekwondo athletes. Design Case–control study. Participants 50 Athletes from the Korean taekwondo national team and a control group of 50 healthy subjects. Main outcome measures History of sports participation, the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS) score and ultrasound imaging of the EHL. Results Difference in the AOFAS scores were noted with the control group at 92.95 ± 9.18, and the experimental group score at 88.45 ± 10.93 ( p < 0.01). Only one person (one tendon) from the control group demonstrated changes on sonography (2%), whilst 10 subjects from the taekwondo group displayed changes in 16 tendons (20%). EHL thickness of the experimental group (1.52 ± 0.16 mm) was greater and the control group (1.46 ± 0.11 mm) ( p < 0.01). Conclusion Taekwondo athletes have a higher incidence of changes on sonographic imaging of the EHL compared to non-taekwando participating healthy subjects.

높이뛰기의 바 넘기 동작을 위한 각운동량 분석

The purpose of this study was to analyze the angular momentum characteristics of the Fosbury Flop high jump and the role of the body segments for the production of 3 angular momentum components. The subjects were three male jumpers who were former Korean national team players. Their jumping motions were analyzed using the DLT method of three-dimensional cinematography. The conclusions were as follows. 1. All the forward angular momentum needed to clear the bar was created in the take-off phase. Take-off leg was the great contributor of the forward angular momentum. On the other hand, free leg produced large opposite angular momentum. 2. All subject had some lateral angular momentum before the take-off phase. Head and free leg had major contribution to the lateral angular momentum production. Take-off leg produced opposite angular momentum. 3. All subject had some twisting angular momentum, which make the back of the athlete him to the bar, before the take-off phase. Free leg was the major contributor of the twisting angular momentum. Head and trunk was the second contributor of the twisting angular momentum. 4. Total angular momentum needed to clear the bar had no significant correlation to the jumping height. 5. Subject who made excessive angular momentum showed different pattern of angular momentum production and had a poor record compared to other subject.

Cultural politics of the Red Devils: the desiring multitude versus the state, capital and media

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes ‘Red Devils’ originally refers to the members of a fan club, who support the Korean national soccer team. But during the World Cup, millions of Koreans went out onto the streets with red shirts on and chanted. There was no distinction between the fan club members and others, and ‘Red Devils’ became to refer to all these people, at least during the World Cup. In this paper, by ‘Red Devils’ we mean the millions of people, not only those members of the fan club. For a problematization and theoretical debate on this issue of ‘micro‐fascism’ inside Korea, please refer to Contemporary Criticism , vols 9 and 10. Concerning this matter, the role of the temporary US military government between the Japanese colonialism and the formal Korean regime installed in 1948 cannot be overlooked. Transforming and/or appropriating the Japanese education into the American one and the fascist ideology into an anti‐Communist one through the usage of old media and school apparatuses, it systematically implanted the Americanized form of yet undemocratic, totalistic life in South Korea. Even the elementary students under tight Japanese control had to swear everyday as follows: 1. We are the subjects of the Great Japan Empire. 2. We will in one union heart be faithful to the emperor. 3. We will endure and train ourselves to become the good and healthy gookmin. More specifically, the Ministry of Culture in 1983 insisted that all television and radio stations reflect the given order in their programmings. The two key themes informed were, first, educating the gookmin spirit and, second, leading the development of gookmin consciousness. These themes were to be reflected not just in the news but also in entertainment and even children's programmes. If this kind of direct censorship has gone, with the collapse of military government, the myth that the media are working for the totality of gookmin is still observed with ease in everyday discourses by and about the media. The role of the ‘US Army Military Government in Korea’ in Korean media history has been discussed in various books and articles. The authors consulted Tae‐Jin Yoon (1997). Professor Noja Pak, who was naturalized as a Korean citizen, said after witnessing the Red Devils on the streets, ‘… It reminded me of the Nazi rally in Nuremberg, 1937’ (Pak and Hong 2002). The discussion on Althusser (and Hall) was inspired by Ogasawara's critique, entitled ‘Seoul Searching: Nationalism and the Subject in Spectacle,’ of the earlier version of this paper. This expressive national identity will later reappear in the Asian Games being held at Pusan, South Korea. The same Red Devils will chant ‘We are the One!’ and ‘Our Father's Land Shall be Unified!’ with hundreds of pretty girl supporters visiting from the North. It is indeed amazing to see how in people's seemingly trivial desires for pleasure, insignificant flows of desire can easily cross over the old ideological boundary set by the states. This failure of the Red complex, the anti‐Communism shows that we need a very different unification theory based not on people's consciousness but on their instinctive desires. The state and people's movement after the 9/11 terror can be analysed in this way, too. In a TV interview with Noam Chomsky by one of the authors (Jeon), he appeared to be very optimistic about people despite the undemocratic, fascist state policing. Is people's desire for freedom really winning that of state for discipline? Or do new reactive immigration policies show the victory of state over people?

높이뛰기의 도약 높이를 증가시키는 역학적 원리와 동작

This study was conducted to investigate the principles and motions for increasing the jumping height of Fosbury Flop. The subjects were three male jumpers who were former Korean national team players. Their jumping motions were analyzed using the DLT method of three-dimensional cinematography. The conclusions were as follows. 1. The horizontal velocity of approach run and decreasing of this velocity during the take off phase were increased as the jumping height was increased. Therefore, in order to increase the jumping height, the horizontal velocity of approachrun should be increased and decreased properly during the take-off phase. The average height of the analyzed Dials was 2.15m. The average horizontal velocity of approachrun was 7.49m/s and decreased to 4.16m/s at the instance of take-off. 2. The vertical velocity of the center of gravity was increased as the ascending height of the center of gravity during the take-off phase was increased. Therefore, the center of gravity at the instant of touch down should be lowered. This could be possible by increasing the length of the last stride and the backward lean angle of the body. The average length of the last stride was 111.1% of the standing height, the average height of the center of gravity was 46.6% of the standing height and the average backward lean angle of the body was 40.3 degrees.