title: A study on the birth and globalization of sports originated from each continent.
abstract: The purpose of this research is to see how continent specific sports rose to its modern-day status through globalization. This research focuses on the historical background of how England's football, America's national pastime, baseball, Japan's Judo, and Korea's Taekwondo developed into sports in addition to the reasoning behind its globalization. Promoted by England and the rest of the European continent, Soccer is considered to be one of the world's most popular sports and has served its function as a form of cultural imperialism. It has also advanced alongside commerce, missionary work and other types of cultural clashes. In America, baseball was used to integrate its multicultural society and developed so that the team captain leads the rest of his team. The sports of Oriental countries were reborn through modernization that was influenced by the modern rationality, education etc. of its Western counterparts. Judo and Taekwondo were introduced globally through the Olympic Games. As mentioned above the birth of sporting events has a close connection to a nation's cultural background and globalization has taken different forms depending on which continent it originated from.
authors.affiliation: Suncheon Campus, Polytechnic College (V), Suncheon, Korea.
authors.forename: Byung Jin
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: College of Education, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Tae Young
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Kim
keywords: Baseball; Globalization of sports; Judo; Soccer; Taekwondo