Jung Woo Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 4106207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jung Woo Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jung Woo |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE J W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1850-1746 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
North Korean Sport Diplomacy in the Olympic Movement Under the Kim Jong-un Regime
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a rational actor in the domain of Olympic diplomacy. Due to the relative political and economic isolation, sport presents a few remaining windows through which North Korea can maintain relationships with other nations. DPRK’s leader, Kim Jong-un, accentuates the development of elite athletes explicitly as a way to build a thriving socialist nation. In this respect, this article examines his regime’s di…
Clash of the Titans
This paper concerns the demonstration of the diplomatic rivalry between the United States and the People’s Republic of China at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Two incidents at these sport mega-events reflect increasing geopolitical tensions between the established and emerging superpowers. These include the diplomatic boycott of the opening and closing ceremonies at Beijing 2022 and the doping allegatio…
Women's Football and Political Propaganda in North Korea
In 2024 the North Korean women's football team achieved a significant milestone by winning four international cups. This study discusses how the despotic communist regime in North Korea exploits such sporting triumphs to promulgate its ruling ideologies, especially through political messages embedded in domestic newspaper coverage of women's football. This state's production and articulation of political propaganda through sports is second to non…
A wartime olympics
The 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris took place amidst the geopolitical crisis in several different places in the world. In particular, the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas conflict, and the US-China diplomatic tension showed little sign of amelioration when the Olympic Games commenced in the French capital. This paper will examine the impact that the three contentions had on the organisation and delivery of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in…
The Geopolitical Economy of Sport
Sports Mega-Events in Asia
Introduction to the Special Issue
In the span of four years from 2018 to 2022, three consecutive Olympic Games were held in East Asia – namely PyeongChang 2018 in South Korea, Tokyo 2020 in Japan and Beijing 2022 in China. Given the geographic concentration of global multi-sports mega-events in the Far East, this period has been referred to as the ‘East Asian era' of the Olympic Games. This introduction to the special issue outlines two major themes of the changes during the East…
Sports Mega-Events in Asia
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism
Sports mega-events, like the Rugby World Cup, are often considered as a major platform for the celebration and reinforcement of nationalism. However, there is an emerging strand of research which contends that the host nations are increasingly presenting themselves with diverse, inclusive and cosmopolitan characteristics and, in turn, forms of nationalism have undergone some noticeable changes in more recent times. In this paper, we pursue an arg…
Weight Change Is Associated with Osteoporosis
Compared to the Never tried group, being in either the Weight L&M or Weight gain groups showed a significant impact on the possibility of osteoporosis
High Risk of Hip and Spinal Fractures after Distal Radius Fracture
The purpose of the present study was to estimate the risk of hip and spinal fracture after distal radius fracture. Data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort were collected between 2002 and 2013. A total of 8013 distal radius fracture participants who were 50 years of age or older were selected. The distal radius fracture participants were matched for age, sex, income, region of residence, and past medical histo…
Analysis of the Associations between Arthritis and Fall Histories in Korean Adults
(1) Background: the purpose of the present study was to analyze the associations between arthritis and fall histories in Korean adults. (2) Methods: data from the 2015 and 2017 Korean Community Health Survey were analyzed. In total, 322,962 participants aged ≥40 years were included. The participants were divided into two different groups. First, the participants were divided into the 'arthritis (osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis) for entire …
Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities
The summer and winter Olympics share the five-ring logo. However, their social and political connotations differ. The Olympic Winter Games displays an aura of a game for the rich and powerful. A few aspiring nations intend to host this luxurious sporting festival in order to polish their international reputations as powerful actors in the global capitalist order. The cases of Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 illustrate this pattern. …
Analyzing the Association between Hyperuricemia and Periodontitis
Hyperuricemia arises from the buildup of excessive uric acid in the blood, and it is implicated in the development of periodontitis. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between hyperuricemia and periodontitis using a cross-sectional study design and Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study Health Examinee (KoGES HEXA) data. This prospective cohort study used epidemiological data from the KoGES from 2004 to 2016. Among 173,2…
Olympic Ceremony and Diplomacy
In this article, I examined South Korean, North Korean, and British newspaper coverage of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics in order to identify the diplomatic gestures and conduct presented during these ceremonial events. This study looks at three diplomatically important components of the opening and closing ceremonies: artistic performance, a parade of nations, and the presence of world leaders. The media coverage …
Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics
A number of issues have ensured the rise in prominence of the term “governance” in relation to sport in recent years. First, a series of scandals have taken place associated with the governance of sporting structures commonly referred to as management corruption (e.g. FIFA). Second, a series of problems associated with competition in sport, commonly referred to as competition corruption (e.g. doping in sport), has occurred. Third, governments glo…
A Game for the Global North
The South Korean region of Pyeongchang will host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Using Wallerstein’s world system theory and Collins’s notions of zones of prestige and emulation as a conceptual framework, this paper examines the South Korean Government’s intention to stage the winter sporting spectacle. As the Winter Olympics is arguably considered a game for the relatively affluent global north, South Korea, as a semi-core state, attempts to elev…
Semiotics and Sport Communication Research
This article offers a discussion on the application of semiotics to sport and communication studies. It considers the theoretical orientations of semiotics and the key analytical foci to which semiotic research pays attention. Initially, this article reviews a linguistic theory of structuralism and poststructuralism. It also contemplates three paired concepts within the semiotic discipline that are particularly relevant to sport communication res…
Examining Korean nationalisms, identities, and politics through sport
South Korea is a sport-loving country. Indeed, sport is not simply a popular physical activity but it is a symbolically significant social practice in the country. In particular, sport operates as an important cultural resource through which a specific discourse of Korean nationalism is reproduced and disseminated. In this respect, as supplementary reading to the papers contained in this special issue, this editorial introduction identifies three…
Assessing the sociology of sport
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, an increasingly influential Korean scholar in the sociology of sport, Jung Woo Lee, considers the development of and challenges for the sociology of sport in Korea. While the sociology of sport was first introduced to South Korea in the late 1960s, growing academic interest was fuelled by the Asian Games and Olympic Games in Seoul in the 1980s. Key volumes, such as Lim's introduction to the field and …
Road to Reunification? Unitary Korean Nationalism in South Korean Media Coverage of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
This article examines South Korean media coverage of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and concerns the discourse around the unification of North and South Korea, with the emergence of a unitary nationalism as the main theme during this period. Unitary Korean nationalism was becoming a dominant form of discourse on inter-Korean relations and was evident in the South Korean media coverage of the Olympics. Despite this, there exists a gap between sport…
Red Feminism and Propaganda in Communist Media
This article discusses the representation of female boxers in the North Korean media. Communists proclaim the liberation of women as one of their major political aims, and the media's portrayal of female pugilists appears to adhere to this political notion. No negative or sexualized description can be found in the North Korean media coverage of female boxing. However, a deeper analysis reveals that the media in this communist state ideologically …
Global Festivals Through a National Prism
This study investigates the global-national nexus in the media representation of the Olympic Games and examines the ways in which the notions of globalization and Korean nationalism are represented. Attention is paid to the South Korean media coverage of opening and closing ceremonies of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. While globalization was promoted through themes such as global friendship and fraternity, the media also framed the event with ref…
The Difficult Dialogue
North Korea is arguably the least understood and the most reclusive country in the world. This article discusses the use of sport in the country as a vehicle for political propaganda and, in particular, the role of nationalism within the communist sporting culture. Although most nation states have become increasingly interdependent politically and economically in the so-called global era, relatively few countries have an official relationship wit…
The Difficult Dialogue
North Korea is arguably the least understood and the most reclusive country in the world. This article discusses the use of sport in the country as a vehicle for political propaganda and, in particular, the role of nationalism within the communist sporting culture. Although most nation states have become increasingly interdependent politically and economically in the so-called global era, relatively few countries have an official relationship wit…
Global Festivals Through a National Prism
This study investigates the global-national nexus in the media representation of the Olympic Games and examines the ways in which the notions of globalization and Korean nationalism are represented. Attention is paid to the South Korean media coverage of opening and closing ceremonies of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. While globalization was promoted through themes such as global friendship and fraternity, the media also framed the event with ref…
Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities
The summer and winter Olympics share the five-ring logo. However, their social and political connotations differ. The Olympic Winter Games displays an aura of a game for the rich and powerful. A few aspiring nations intend to host this luxurious sporting festival in order to polish their international reputations as powerful actors in the global capitalist order. The cases of Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 illustrate this pattern. …
Red Feminism and Propaganda in Communist Media
This article discusses the representation of female boxers in the North Korean media. Communists proclaim the liberation of women as one of their major political aims, and the media's portrayal of female pugilists appears to adhere to this political notion. No negative or sexualized description can be found in the North Korean media coverage of female boxing. However, a deeper analysis reveals that the media in this communist state ideologically …
Olympic Ceremony and Diplomacy
In this article, I examined South Korean, North Korean, and British newspaper coverage of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics in order to identify the diplomatic gestures and conduct presented during these ceremonial events. This study looks at three diplomatically important components of the opening and closing ceremonies: artistic performance, a parade of nations, and the presence of world leaders. The media coverage …
A Game for the Global North
The South Korean region of Pyeongchang will host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Using Wallerstein’s world system theory and Collins’s notions of zones of prestige and emulation as a conceptual framework, this paper examines the South Korean Government’s intention to stage the winter sporting spectacle. As the Winter Olympics is arguably considered a game for the relatively affluent global north, South Korea, as a semi-core state, attempts to elev…
Examining Korean nationalisms, identities, and politics through sport
South Korea is a sport-loving country. Indeed, sport is not simply a popular physical activity but it is a symbolically significant social practice in the country. In particular, sport operates as an important cultural resource through which a specific discourse of Korean nationalism is reproduced and disseminated. In this respect, as supplementary reading to the papers contained in this special issue, this editorial introduction identifies three…
Road to Reunification? Unitary Korean Nationalism in South Korean Media Coverage of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
This article examines South Korean media coverage of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and concerns the discourse around the unification of North and South Korea, with the emergence of a unitary nationalism as the main theme during this period. Unitary Korean nationalism was becoming a dominant form of discourse on inter-Korean relations and was evident in the South Korean media coverage of the Olympics. Despite this, there exists a gap between sport…
A wartime olympics
The 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris took place amidst the geopolitical crisis in several different places in the world. In particular, the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas conflict, and the US-China diplomatic tension showed little sign of amelioration when the Olympic Games commenced in the French capital. This paper will examine the impact that the three contentions had on the organisation and delivery of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in…
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism
Sports mega-events, like the Rugby World Cup, are often considered as a major platform for the celebration and reinforcement of nationalism. However, there is an emerging strand of research which contends that the host nations are increasingly presenting themselves with diverse, inclusive and cosmopolitan characteristics and, in turn, forms of nationalism have undergone some noticeable changes in more recent times. In this paper, we pursue an arg…
Red Feminism and Propaganda in Communist Media
This article discusses the representation of female boxers in the North Korean media. Communists proclaim the liberation of women as one of their major political aims, and the media's portrayal of female pugilists appears to adhere to this political notion. No negative or sexualized description can be found in the North Korean media coverage of female boxing. However, a deeper analysis reveals that the media in this communist state ideologically …
Global Festivals Through a National Prism
This study investigates the global-national nexus in the media representation of the Olympic Games and examines the ways in which the notions of globalization and Korean nationalism are represented. Attention is paid to the South Korean media coverage of opening and closing ceremonies of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. While globalization was promoted through themes such as global friendship and fraternity, the media also framed the event with ref…
The Difficult Dialogue
North Korea is arguably the least understood and the most reclusive country in the world. This article discusses the use of sport in the country as a vehicle for political propaganda and, in particular, the role of nationalism within the communist sporting culture. Although most nation states have become increasingly interdependent politically and economically in the so-called global era, relatively few countries have an official relationship wit…
Road to Reunification? Unitary Korean Nationalism in South Korean Media Coverage of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games
This article examines South Korean media coverage of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and concerns the discourse around the unification of North and South Korea, with the emergence of a unitary nationalism as the main theme during this period. Unitary Korean nationalism was becoming a dominant form of discourse on inter-Korean relations and was evident in the South Korean media coverage of the Olympics. Despite this, there exists a gap between sport…
Semiotics and Sport Communication Research
This article offers a discussion on the application of semiotics to sport and communication studies. It considers the theoretical orientations of semiotics and the key analytical foci to which semiotic research pays attention. Initially, this article reviews a linguistic theory of structuralism and poststructuralism. It also contemplates three paired concepts within the semiotic discipline that are particularly relevant to sport communication res…
Examining Korean nationalisms, identities, and politics through sport
South Korea is a sport-loving country. Indeed, sport is not simply a popular physical activity but it is a symbolically significant social practice in the country. In particular, sport operates as an important cultural resource through which a specific discourse of Korean nationalism is reproduced and disseminated. In this respect, as supplementary reading to the papers contained in this special issue, this editorial introduction identifies three…
Assessing the sociology of sport
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, an increasingly influential Korean scholar in the sociology of sport, Jung Woo Lee, considers the development of and challenges for the sociology of sport in Korea. While the sociology of sport was first introduced to South Korea in the late 1960s, growing academic interest was fuelled by the Asian Games and Olympic Games in Seoul in the 1980s. Key volumes, such as Lim's introduction to the field and …
Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics
A number of issues have ensured the rise in prominence of the term “governance” in relation to sport in recent years. First, a series of scandals have taken place associated with the governance of sporting structures commonly referred to as management corruption (e.g. FIFA). Second, a series of problems associated with competition in sport, commonly referred to as competition corruption (e.g. doping in sport), has occurred. Third, governments glo…
A Game for the Global North
The South Korean region of Pyeongchang will host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Using Wallerstein’s world system theory and Collins’s notions of zones of prestige and emulation as a conceptual framework, this paper examines the South Korean Government’s intention to stage the winter sporting spectacle. As the Winter Olympics is arguably considered a game for the relatively affluent global north, South Korea, as a semi-core state, attempts to elev…
Olympic Ceremony and Diplomacy
In this article, I examined South Korean, North Korean, and British newspaper coverage of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics in order to identify the diplomatic gestures and conduct presented during these ceremonial events. This study looks at three diplomatically important components of the opening and closing ceremonies: artistic performance, a parade of nations, and the presence of world leaders. The media coverage …
Analyzing the Association between Hyperuricemia and Periodontitis
Hyperuricemia arises from the buildup of excessive uric acid in the blood, and it is implicated in the development of periodontitis. The objective of this study was to investigate the association between hyperuricemia and periodontitis using a cross-sectional study design and Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study Health Examinee (KoGES HEXA) data. This prospective cohort study used epidemiological data from the KoGES from 2004 to 2016. Among 173,2…
Weight Change Is Associated with Osteoporosis
Compared to the Never tried group, being in either the Weight L&M or Weight gain groups showed a significant impact on the possibility of osteoporosis
High Risk of Hip and Spinal Fractures after Distal Radius Fracture
The purpose of the present study was to estimate the risk of hip and spinal fracture after distal radius fracture. Data from the Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort were collected between 2002 and 2013. A total of 8013 distal radius fracture participants who were 50 years of age or older were selected. The distal radius fracture participants were matched for age, sex, income, region of residence, and past medical histo…
Analysis of the Associations between Arthritis and Fall Histories in Korean Adults
(1) Background: the purpose of the present study was to analyze the associations between arthritis and fall histories in Korean adults. (2) Methods: data from the 2015 and 2017 Korean Community Health Survey were analyzed. In total, 322,962 participants aged ≥40 years were included. The participants were divided into two different groups. First, the participants were divided into the 'arthritis (osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis) for entire …
Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities
The summer and winter Olympics share the five-ring logo. However, their social and political connotations differ. The Olympic Winter Games displays an aura of a game for the rich and powerful. A few aspiring nations intend to host this luxurious sporting festival in order to polish their international reputations as powerful actors in the global capitalist order. The cases of Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 illustrate this pattern. …
Sports Mega-Events in Asia
Introduction to the Special Issue
In the span of four years from 2018 to 2022, three consecutive Olympic Games were held in East Asia – namely PyeongChang 2018 in South Korea, Tokyo 2020 in Japan and Beijing 2022 in China. Given the geographic concentration of global multi-sports mega-events in the Far East, this period has been referred to as the ‘East Asian era' of the Olympic Games. This introduction to the special issue outlines two major themes of the changes during the East…
Sports Mega-Events in Asia
Sports mega-events and cosmopolitan nationalism
Sports mega-events, like the Rugby World Cup, are often considered as a major platform for the celebration and reinforcement of nationalism. However, there is an emerging strand of research which contends that the host nations are increasingly presenting themselves with diverse, inclusive and cosmopolitan characteristics and, in turn, forms of nationalism have undergone some noticeable changes in more recent times. In this paper, we pursue an arg…
The Geopolitical Economy of Sport
Clash of the Titans
This paper concerns the demonstration of the diplomatic rivalry between the United States and the People’s Republic of China at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Two incidents at these sport mega-events reflect increasing geopolitical tensions between the established and emerging superpowers. These include the diplomatic boycott of the opening and closing ceremonies at Beijing 2022 and the doping allegatio…
Women's Football and Political Propaganda in North Korea
In 2024 the North Korean women's football team achieved a significant milestone by winning four international cups. This study discusses how the despotic communist regime in North Korea exploits such sporting triumphs to promulgate its ruling ideologies, especially through political messages embedded in domestic newspaper coverage of women's football. This state's production and articulation of political propaganda through sports is second to non…
A wartime olympics
The 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris took place amidst the geopolitical crisis in several different places in the world. In particular, the Russia-Ukraine war, the Israel-Hamas conflict, and the US-China diplomatic tension showed little sign of amelioration when the Olympic Games commenced in the French capital. This paper will examine the impact that the three contentions had on the organisation and delivery of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in…
North Korean Sport Diplomacy in the Olympic Movement Under the Kim Jong-un Regime
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a rational actor in the domain of Olympic diplomacy. Due to the relative political and economic isolation, sport presents a few remaining windows through which North Korea can maintain relationships with other nations. DPRK’s leader, Kim Jong-un, accentuates the development of elite athletes explicitly as a way to build a thriving socialist nation. In this respect, this article examines his regime’s di…
Political science (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (13 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Nationalism (6 works)