As the development of scientific civilization and the complicatedness of social structure have been deepened, during this century, Sport and Recreation For all Movement has flourished all over the world. Especially, the necessity of recreation movement has been greatly emphasized because of the lack of body training, the crisis of health, and physical strength, human alienation, and the increase of leisure time. Under these circumstances, we should rearrange the concept and the methods of various recreation movements and leisure time of the people in the near future to come. The thesis treats mainly with what background the recreation in Korea has been developed and how much result it has made through the developmental history of Korean Recreation Association. The thesis was written in order to contribute to the national prosperity and the sound leisure activities of the people by studying what factors interfere with the development of recreation and what relationship there is between social situation and those factors. As for the approaching method to this goal: The writer took various documents kept in Korean Recreation Association as the first sources, and materials published by the other concerned organizations as the second sources. And then, finally, the writer came to a conclusion by analyzing and synthesizing those materials in historical order according to the mode of activities. As a result of this research: The writer came to a final conclusion, which can be explained in six stages. Each stage has its own fundamental and particular problems and causes. These problems and causes can be reduced as follows. First, as for the financial problem, when there was enough assistance from the National Treasury, sports and recreation movements flourished, but when there was no longer assistance, the activities of Recreation Association became negative and at stake. Secondly, as for the personnel composition, there can be seen no relation with their social status. Rather, when those with poor philosophy for the activity had the authority, there arouse even more problems. Thirdly, the degree of activity of the Association was greatly depended upon how deep the leader`s philosophy was carried out in any practical way. That is to say, without a strong will and philosophy, there could be no result. Therefore, in order for the activity to be activized, more and more members with strong will are needed to participate, and it is also necessary for enterprisers and government to participate in the activity. As above-considered, the prosperous movement of recreation requires the positive assistance from the National Treasury, training of excellent leaders, construction of activity buildings, reinforcement of local organizations, and so on. Besides, development of activity items, security of activity space, holding various nationwide games, and more researches for recreation as a whole should be harmonized to make the recreation movement activized practically.