Korea National Sport University

Latent profiles of body composition in older adults with hypertension: associations with physical fitness and differences in blood pressure and fasting plasma glucose

[Purpose] This study aimed to identify the body composition profiles of older adults with hypertension and examine their associations with physical fitness and cardiometabolic characteristics.[Methods] This cross-sectional study included 491 community-dwelling older adults with h...

The adaptive role of the knee joint in maintaining the orbital stability during slope walking

Abstract Maintaining gait stability on sloped surfaces is a biomechanically demanding task. Previous studies revealed the effect of slopes on overall gait stability, but the joint-level mechanisms underlying the stability still remain unclear. Given that most active exoskeletons...

From Stigma to Spectacle: The Sociocultural Transformation of DanceSport in South Korea, 1900s–2020s

Social dance in Korea evolved from a stigmatized and heavily regulated activity into the institutionalized form of DanceSport. This transformation was not a straightforward process of diffusion or legal recognition but a contested historical trajectory through which cultural legi...

First-scoring patterns associated with winning in Taekwondo Kyorugi under the best-of-three system: A sequential pattern mining approach

This study examined first-scoring patterns associated with winning in Taekwondo kyorugi under the best-of-three (Bo3) system using sequential pattern mining. A total of 545 matches were analyzed according to sex and weight categories. Match events were categorized according to ro...