Physical education is a subject where students seek to improve quality of life, to develop physical strength, and promote healthiness, steadiness of emotion, and socialization. The Department seeks a successful development of physical education and sports and play culture at the same time.

Students of this Department also participate to improving physical strength and motor skills, mastering knowledge about exercising and health, and to learn desirable attitudes and socially valuable rules in various sports to accomplish this purpose.

The Department offers all students the curriculum to master knowledge about sports philosophy and history, sports psychology, exercise physiology, sports biomechanics, sports sociology, health and hygiene, and training courses to master ball sports, physical strength, gymnastics exercise, individual and collective exercises, dancing, and swimming.

This Department produces graduates who become teachers in middle and high schools and as coaches and instructors in elite sports and health centers, and as researchers in sports institutes.

Students are required to earn 150 credits, with 117 credits from core and related courses, and 33 credits from general courses. Students must also demonstrate proficiency with computers and in a foreign language.

• Department of Physical Education, College of Education, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-757, Korea.
• Phone: +82-62-530-2550
• Fax: +82-62-530-2569