Sports and Anthems: a Collective Eexpression of Iintense Emotion

Abstract

Sports is a cultural field where public desires are directly expressed. The cheering song resounding at this time is condensed with the social and cultural desires of the time. This thesis grasps how cheering culture and cheering songs have changed in the development of Korean sports, and analyzes the public's desire expression through sports. To this end, an analysis of self-cultural descriptions and various literature data was attempted. After independence from Japanese imperialism, Korean sports cheering culture was dominated by collectivism for a long time. During the long-term military regime, sports policy was consistent with a project to Nationalism and the cheering culture was also expressed in a collectivist style. With the launch of professional sports and the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the desire to rise to the middle class and the aspect of urban culture practice developed, and before and after this, the use of popular music was developed. In addition, popular music became an effective way to immediately combine public sentiment and express it enthusiastically in the professional sports scene where excessive nationalism and regional base were weak before and after the 2002 Korea-Japan World Cup.