Proposal to enhance the fairness of judges = Proposal to enhance the fairness of judges

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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to enhance fairness and professionalism of referees through identifying a status and problem of domestic referee operation. Acquisition of fairness and professionalism of referees makes transparent circumstances in sports and contribute to normalization on it as well. Method: Survey and discussion with experts were conducted in this study. Survey contains training, regulation, and activity related to operation of referees. In case of global practices, the implication has been derived from U.S., Canada. Result: Three pillars of sports events can be considered as athlete, coach, and referee. The referee judges the rule of competition, decides the outcome of the game with leading sports competition. But the recent biased judgement, match fixing, lack of expertise and bad call by a referee were brought up continuously. And, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Sport Olympic Committee have planned normalization for operation of referee by providing detailed measures. Conclusion: A Suggestion for strengthening the referee``s fairness and expertise is as follows. First, we have to consider developing and operating automation system of referee assignments, introducing evaluation system and appraisal system of referee, adoption of promotion and relegation, strict restrictions on referee with biased judgment, the principle of non-intervention between Sports Federation and the Referee Committee, modernization of equipment, reinforcement of reward and punishment in order to strengthen referee’s fairness. Second, operating permanent referee system for 10 targeting sports and payment of allowance to improve treatment with establishing referee academy, regular mandatory training, training retired athletes as referee, providing opportunity of referee training to the public, required increase of referee activity and training for each sports federation could be considered in order to improve the referee``s expertise. Those systems have helped to create fair sports environment through improvement of referee’s expertise and fair operation of referee activity.