Purpose This study is to investigate the human rights violations of Semi-professional team athletes. Methods The subjects of the survey were 4,069 people in total of 56 sports athletes from teams. than, 1,251 athletes who agreed to provide personal information (635 males and 616 females) were sampled. The survey tool consisted of a total of 76 questions asking about violence, sexual violence, and general characteristics of semi-professional athletes. Results were frequency analysis, cross-analysis, and multiple response analysis. Results Despite being an adult athlete in the semi-professional Team's Workplace Sports Team, life controls were severe in the sports team and human rights violations, such as verbal and physical violence, were widely observed, and sexual harassment and sexual violence were not small. The main perpetrators were the leaders and senior players, and the venue was the training ground. The players were in an environment where they were forced to respond passively for fear of hierarchical, collective atmosphere and personal disadvantages, and were blind spots for labor rights in terms of contracts and treatment. Conclusion To human rights violations of semi-professional athletes as the structural problems of the Korean sports. It is necessary to strengthen human rights education by the workplace movement department and conduct regular human rights surveys, and legal institutionalization to establish a disciplinary information system for perpetrators. In addition, by enacting guidelines for human rights in the sports world, a system should be prepared so that the victims can actively express their intentions.
PURPOSE This study aimed to identify the nature of human rights violations experienced by semi-professional athletes in semi-professional sports teams and explored the relevant cases.METHODS For this purpose, 35 semi-professional athletes (20 men and 15 women) from the semi-professional sports teams participated in the study, and data collection was conducted through in-depth interviews and focus group interviews (FGI). The collected data were analyzed using the phenomenological research method proposed by Colaizzi (1978).RESULTS The study summarized the results into five categories, 14 theme clusters and 41 themes. Its inherent structures include ‘first step to becoming a semi-professional athlete: disadvantageous contracts for players,’ ‘unavoidable absolute power: obedience to the coach,’ ‘forced training camp: autonomy and privacy infringement,’ ‘structural problems of the semi-professional sports federation: tyrannized power’ and ‘female players who are in male-oriented society: gender-focused than performance.’CONCLUSIONS The results of this study provided an understanding of athletes’ human rights violations experienced in semi-professional sports teams. Understanding athletes in semi-professional sports teams through phenomenological research was conducted based on previous studies discussing practical and policy intervention measures.
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