제79회 전국체전 부산팀전력에 관한 고찰 = An analysis of pusan team's performance at the 79th national sports festival

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Focused on the performance of the Pusan team at this year's 79th National Sports Festival, this paper aims to analyze the results of the team by each event through the past 5 years from 1994 to 1998.
This year Pusan stood at the 6th again in 8 years. This result is a crisis as the city is scheduled to host the 2000 National Sports Festival and the 2002 Asian Games. The following problems can be pointed out:

First, slow development of school sports. From 1991 through 1994, elite-oriented school sports turned into club-associated sports for fun and play. Therefore, some relatively harder events became unpopular and it was more difficult recruiting excellent athletes. Tough financial conditions of schools also contributed to slowing the development of school sports.
Second, budgetary lack. The budget of the Pusan Sports Association ranks the 10th among 16 domestic cities and provinces. In particular, the expenses for reinforced training amounting to 200,000 won per person (recording the 14th) leave much for improvement. It's getting harder and harder to purchase expensive equipment. So how to secure enough finance is the most urgent task.
Third, tougher economic conditions of Pusan. Owing to the IMF crisis, a lot of companies in Pusan have gone bankrupt. As a result, some athletic associations go without their presidents. So missing are financially supporting athletes and properly collecting data.

Henceforth, for the balanced development and high performance of Pusan sports at the National Sports Festival, the above problems should be solved. Let me suggest some guidelines:
1. School sports need to be activated above anything else. In fact, Pusan's high school teams reaped all but the lowest marks this year. We have to enlarge financial grants to high schools, invest in some specialized events, manage the representative reserve system, and expand the support of promising athletes.
2. A practical budget ought to be made, including the rise of reinforced training expenditure up to 300,000 to 400,000 won per athlete. For example, the interests of the sports promotion fund (about 4 billion won) held by the Pusan Sports Association might as well be used as special accounts.
3. Some concerned facilities (sports fields and public athletic parks) and equipment (especially for sea sports) have to be secured.
4. More vigorous support of and investment in college and industrial terms is needed for the bright picture of Pusan sports in the 2000s.
5. As sports administration also goes Seoul-oriented, fresh leaders are needed to run the otherwise weakening municipal sports organization.