Taekwondo, a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea, is the most symbolic cultural heritage of Korea. In addition, the excellent techniques and systems of Taekwondo that represents the Orient, were already proven. Taekwondo has solid...
Taekwondo, a Korean martial art and the national sport of South Korea, is the most symbolic cultural heritage of Korea. In addition, the excellent techniques and systems of Taekwondo that represents the Orient, were already proven. Taekwondo has solidified its footing as one of the most renowned martial arts and sports of the world, coming into the limelight by people around the world, since Seoul Olympic Games in 1988 and Barcelona Olympics in 1992.
Specifically, Taekwondo was adopted as an official sport of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, taking root as Korea's proud sport that uses Korean language. Following its official recognition for the Sydney Olympic Games, Taekwondo was also granted official recognition for 2007 Athens Olympic Games and 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, laying the cornerstone for Taekwondo to exist as a permanent sports, and furthermore, Korea accomplished the outstanding feat of winning gold medals in four weight classes of Taekwondo competition for both male and female in Beijing Olympic Games.
The remarkable development of Taekwondo match, namely the Taekwondo competition, was the greatest factor that led Taekwondo to achieve the status of permanent sports, and it was the result of the intensive efforts of Taekwondo demonstration team that was launched to promote Taekwondo abroad.
The internal and external activities of Taekwondo demonstration have helped bring about a remarkable advancement of demonstration programs and techniques, the techniques that can be presented by the current demonstration may be limited at present. In addition, the field of Taekwondo demonstration has been divided into two different types, putting an added emphasis on the authenticity and the performance(creativity), respectively, which brings confusion to the identity of Taekwondo.
Therefore, the necessity and purpose of this study are to present the direction that Taekwondo, which has been confronted with the uncertainty of identity, attempts to pursue by analyzing important factors of the current Taekwondo demonstration of Korea Republic through Delphi/Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP).
The subject of this study was the Taekwondo adult demonstration team of Kukkiwon, the Taekwondo demonstration team of Korea Taekwondo Association, the head and coach of the Taekwondo demonstration team of Korean Tigers, who were selected as expert groups, and the samples were taken from them which were necessary for the delphi analysis.
Based on the data obtained from delphi analysis, AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) survey questionnaires were generated, and a total of 30 people, 10 each from the Taekwondo adult demonstration team of Kukkiwon, the Taekwondo demonstration team of Korea Taekwondo Association, the Taekwondo demonstration team of Korean Tigers, were surveyed through AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process).
The medium factors of Taekwondo demonstration will be considered on the basis of the data collected through delphi technique, and on that basis, questionnaire sheets are intended to be designed, which will be applied to AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) in order to derive important factors.
For the questionnaires, which will be applied to the AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process), the factor pairwise comparison questionnaires with 9 score ratio scale system based on the important factors of Taekwondo demonstration were used.
AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) was conducted by using Expert Choice 2000 software in order to analyze the important factor of Taekwondo demonstration and the presentation of the direction.
The procedure for AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) involves the evaluation of consistency index for the response data after surveying the experts. Here, the important factor of Taekwondo demonstration and the pursuit of future-orientedness were analyzed after selecting those of which consistency index did not exceed 0.1 as the data.
The first survey in this study led the head and coaches of Taekwondo demonstration team, who were participants in this study, to present their intuitive opinions as to what they considered were the important factors in Taekwondo demonstration. Five factors were derived, and on the basis of those five factors, the second survey questionnaires were designed. As a result of the survey, 19 detailed factors were derived.
The AHP(Analytic Hierarchy Process) survey questionnaires were generated using the factors of Taekwondo demonstration, which were derived through the 1st and 2nd delphi technique, and the survey of 30 people from the Taekwondo adult demonstration team of Kukkiwon, the Taekwondo demonstration team of Korea Taekwondo Association, the Taekwondo demonstration team of Korean Tigers indicated the follows:
The Taekwondo demonstration team of Korea Taekwondo Association considered that the top priority in Taekwondo demonstration was the ability to present Taekwondo effectively.
The Taekwondo adult demonstration team of Kukkiwon considered that the top priority in Taekwondo demonstration was the ceaseless effort and endurance.
The Taekwondo demonstration team of Korean Tigers considered that the top priority in Taekwondo demonstration was the sense of mission and the mindset to set an example.
Taekwondo demonstration team considered that the highest priority in the integrated Taekwondo demonstration factor was the courteousness and tenacity of team members. In conclusion, the important factors for preventing the confusion of identity faced by Taekwondo demonstration and presenting a direction are like this:
The ability to present Taekwondo demonstration effectively needs to be built well, and both internal and external aspect and technical aspect need to be improved through the ceaseless effort and endurance of Taekwondo demonstration team.
In addition, Taekwondo demonstration team members need to have a strict sense of mission and the mindset to set an example, put an emphasis on courteousness, and perform Taekwondo demonstration with tenacity.