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Academic And Research Programs In Exercise Science, South Korea, Kyung-Shin Park, Wook Song
Academic And Research Programs In Exercise Science, South Korea, Kyung-Shin Park, Wook Song
International Journal of Exercise Science
We appreciate the opportunity to review academic curriculum and current research focus of Exercise Science programs in South Korea. The information of this paper was collected by several different methods, including e-mail and phone interviews, and a discussion with Korean professors who attended the 2009 ACSM annual conference. It was agreed that exercise science programming in South Korea has improved over the last 60 years since being implemented. One of distinguishable achievement is that exercise science programs after the 1980’s has been expanded to several different directions. It does not only produce physical education teachers but also attributes more to …