Abstract
The purpose of this study is to clarify the development of the Chosen shrine athletic meetings
(1925-1943) in Colonial Korea. The historical records which used in this study were newspapers,
magazines and the pamphlet of the 10th athletic meeting in this period.
The findings in this study can be summarized as follows;
1. Japanese and Korean people had participated in the Chosen shrine athletic meetings, and the
events of which this athletic meeting were increased gradually. Track and field events and ball
games were adopted in the 1920s, and the events of Budo were adopted in the 1930s. Korean sports
were carried out in 1941. Moreover, mass games were also performed in the Chosen shrine athletic
meetings.
2. According to the pamphlet of the 10th athletic meeting in 1934, most of committee member
were Japanese [82%], and, as for the player who has participated, it turns out that the percentage of
Japanese [53%] and Korean [47%] was balanced. However, there was deviation by the event. Most of
baseball or kyudo players were Japanese, while most of association football players were Korean. It
could be recognized that each ethnic group had popular events. Moreover, Korean female players had
a higher percentage of soft rubber-ball tennis.
3. Circumstances of Korean sports which progressed in the 1930s had brought a result which
interested Korean people in the Chosen shrine athletic meetings.
4. The Chosen shrine athletic meetings in the period of Kominka policy had been held to make
Korean assimilated. The Chosen Taiikushinkoukai sponsored the 18th athletic meeting under
wartime, the Japanese governor-general of Korea sponsored the 19th athletic meeting were carried
out as athletic meeting which contributes to "military power reinforcement."
