’90년대 한국농구의 전개과정 연구

The Development Processes of the ’90s Korean Basketball

&nbsp;&nbsp;The present study is a chronological analysis of the history of the Korean basketball, focused on a decade from 1991 through 2000. The development processes are examined in three main divisions of school basketball, adult basketball, and the Korean basketball in future.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;First, in school basketball, athletes&quot; body height and skills have all but similarly developed in elementary schools&quot; basketball throughout the nation. Middle and high school athletes have held a lot of competitions, where some promising players for adult basketball teams have been produced. In campus basketball, however, much progress was seen in the First League of Seoul and its vicinity universities, while the Second League of local colleges have merely regressed.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Second, in adult basketball, considerable and visible progress was made owing to the birth of professional basketball teams and the KBL in the mid-1990s. This opened a new chapter in the Korean basketball history, resulting in an epoch-making stride of the overall Korean basketball, heightening the levels of participation and consciousness of the players and the basketball-concerned people, and triggering further development in sports marketing and sports administration.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Last, in the world arena, the Korean basketball has failed to capture any championships (including the ABC) in the 1990s since it earned the silver medal in women&quot;s basketball in the 1984 LA Olympics. After the birth of the WKBL, however, the Korean women&quot;s representative team made another myth by standing the 4th in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Therefore, the Korean basketball should hold even more regional contests for the purpose of achieving standardization or equalization among the various levels of school teams across the country. Adult teams also need to grow their athletic performance based on fair play and real sportsmanship, not on excessive commercialism. This also applies to the Korean basketball in the world stage, where pure and authentic sportsmanship is emphasized.