Now Taekwondo plays a role of public relations to let its value known to the world as the national sport and martial arts. As can be seen from the fact that the population of Taekwondo trainees is gradually increasing all over the world, Taekwondo is ...
Now Taekwondo plays a role of public relations to let its value known to the world as the national sport and martial arts. As can be seen from the fact that the population of Taekwondo trainees is gradually increasing all over the world, Taekwondo is being recognized as popular martial arts. In Korea, however, as trainees become younger, general environment for hall management, including the contents of training, instruction methods, and trainee management, should be changed. Therefore, it becomes necessary to conduct researches on strategic management schemes to manage a hall efficiently. The purpose of this study is to see effects of Taekwondo demonstration training on hall management and provide basic data to activate halls in terms of managerial strategies for its values and effectiveness. To suggest a direction for improving halls, the following results were drawn through qualitative research methods.
1. From a managerial perspective, trainees showed the highest pride and dignity by entering a Taekwondo demonstration team and it was found to be necessary to observe Taekwondo demonstration training methods differentiated from other halls in order to be an activated Taekwondo hall through systematic demonstration training.
2. As for the theoretical respect of demonstration training, there was a great demand for diversifying theoretical researches on demonstration, with a low understanding of terms. Demonstration team activities were found to have positive effects on pride cultivation.
3. As for the respect of facilities, they showed general satisfaction with the use of many facilities in training rooms for Taekwondo training and the spatial size of halls; indoor gymnasiums were most preferred for demonstration, followed by halls and fields. There was general satisfaction with installation of supplementary equipment.
4. As for the respect of items and safety, there were negative attitudes toward color of clothes as visual effects of a demonstration team in Taekwondo demonstration; there was a great demand for injury prevention including wearing Taekwondo shoes and insurance against injuries on demonstrators and on the spectator by pieces of pine boards.
5. As for the technical respect, there was high satisfaction with technical development by diversity of demonstration training and general satisfaction with the arrangement order. As for the number of practices needed to increase technical difficulties, there was high preference for a large number of practices, 5 times in general.
6. As for methods of public relations for an activated Taekwondo hall, there were more outdoor public tests and demonstrations in many event halls for the purpose of out-of-mouth effects than ads using papers or media. In case of ads shown directly for immediate demonstration, using the effects of public relations for a hall to the utmost was found to increase word-of-mouth effects. Demonstration training had positive effects on formation of good characters by improving stability, self-confidence, patient, and self-denying spirit emotionally and cooperation, belongingness, and responsibility socially and by changing attitudes toward seniors and improving timeliness and obedience to rules in terms of living, through training team activities from the respect of differentiated training general trainees couldn't learn. Therefore, it is necessary to arouse interest and curiosity with diverse programs for trainees by reorganizing differentiated demonstration training methods of other halls in order to operate an activated demonstration team. Team members should be motivated and oriented to get a sense of pride themselves; it is desirable for instructors to develop a new type of demonstration training and make continuous efforts to apply demonstration to hall management and make the maximum use of it to get economic profits all the time.