Talk:Sport in South Korea/Archive 1

Archive 1

Britannica

The Encyclopaedia Britannica isn't really the kind of source that we want to be citing here. -- Visviva 06:01, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Why not? It's reliable enough. SCHZMO ✍ 19:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the article needs a part about esports. -- unregistered visitor, 14:44 18.06.2006 (gmt+1)

Computer games

Why is there nothing about computer games in this article? South Koreans consider them sports, and they're probably more popular than golf or whatever. Practically half the country turns on the TV to watch BoxeR play StarCraft. Sloverlord 11:16, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Indeed. It's called eSports for a reason. 212.181.114.49 (talk) 12:46, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

That completly absurde, Electronic sports are still sports... These progaming athele can million of dollar playing this game and almost half the korea watches these game. As long as people pratice it and watch it then it is a sport. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.53.244.12 (talk) 10:57, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Rubbish. People watch singing competitions, that doesn't mean it's a "sport". Anonywiki (talk) 03:18, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Electronic sports are sports, especially at the level it has proliferated in South Korea. Extensive training goes into professional E-sports in South Korea, and much of their training is physically intensive. Motorsports take less physical effort than StarCraft, and are still widely considered as a sport. T.c.w7468 (talk) 23:03, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

eSports need to be given more attention here. eSports are incredibly popular in South Korea, to the point that refusing to call them sports violates WP:NPOV. Mamyles (talk) 16:43, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Which is more popular?

There's a glaring contradiction I noticed in Wikipedia. The main South Korea article claims that baseball is "the most popular spectator sport in South Korea"[[1]] and also gives a reference to support this claim.[[2]] However, this article claims that football (soccer) is "the most popular team sport in Korea"[[3]] but gives no citation to support this claim.

You can see the obvious contradiction. Can someone more knowledgeable about South Korean culture please resolve this? I would suggest that the latter claim (regarding football/soccer) be dropped unless some citation can be found to support it.

Alternatively, perhaps it might be true that baseball is more popular as a spectator sport but soccer is more popular in terms of participation?140.251.125.50 (talk) 19:56, 16 August 2008 (UTC)Matt

Football is more popular in spectator wise also in Corea. according to research, 50 percent of coreans prefer football as spectator sports and 16 percent people prefer baseball. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.179.111.38 (talk) 19:45, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Surely it can't be difficult to get attendance figures for Korea's baseball and football leagues. Even TV viewing figures for the sports would be helpful. I don't think it's right to claim football is a popular sport based only on support for the national team. The claim should be backed up with figures for K-league attendances, TV audiences for football generally (I understand European club football matches are more popular than domestic ones), or even statistics for numbers who play football regularly. If it were to be measured on interest and support for the national team alone, then it would be just as popular a sport as figure skating, baseball, speed skating, or any other sport in which Korea has reasonable international success. 203.229.110.233 (talk) 13:22, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

I highly doubt baseball is anywhere near as popular as football in South Korea, it would go against all international trends. Someone is in a dreamworld. Anonywiki (talk) 03:22, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Short track speed skating anyone?

Kind of unthinkable that there is not a bigger deal made of Short track speed skating here Rastapopolis (talk) 22:18, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Sports originating from Korea

The bit about Hapkido being as old as three thousand years contradicts what the International Hapkido Federation say in their site[[4]] and what says in the wikipedia article. The similar history reference for Taekwondo contradicts the wikipedia article and this other site[[5]] which is used as source in another part of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jigoku (talk • contribs) 04:16, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Archery

What about archery??...Korea dominates in this sport. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.119.63.133 (talk) 19:43, 4 January 2012 (UTC) Archery is very important I wrote an essay and it told me that it is very important.