抄録
This paper attempts to historically disclose the actual status of athletic activities carried out by the organizations of Korean students studying in Japan. The results of this paper are as follows:1)The student organizations formed in the early period were forced to be dissolved due to internal discords and the financial problems facing the Choson Dynasty:and, later, separate individual student organizations were formed by areas, by government-financed students and privately financed students, and by Japanese language training institutes. However, Korean students launched an organization campaign to remedy such phenomenon of having separate organizations and, finally, succeeded in integrating organizations into a single body after undergoing a series of temporary unification. 2)The sports theory of the Korean student organization in Japan emphasized the necessity of physical education as the means of seeking the wealth and military strength of the nation, considering the external and internal situation during the initial and independence period prior to the Japanese annexation of Korea. However, during the period of integration realized under the Japanese protective period, detailed contents of sports were presented as the sports were recognized as the basis of seeking recovery of national rights. Major contents were the introduction to the physical education provided by the U.S.A.and the construction of sports facilities. 3)The athletic activities carried out by the Korean student organizations in Japan did not contain independent athletic activities in the initial period, and members participated only in the athletic meetings held by Keiogijyuku. During the indepednence period, however, activities of recreational nature. such as individual athletic meetings, picnics, and sea bathing were carried out. It is considered that such activities were held to promote harmony and unity among Korean students studying abroad and to inspire students with the national consciousness.
