The purpose of this study was to build a K-sports club centered local governance for settling advanced sports club system. The operation system of Blue K- sports club was checked by different kind of cases. After looking into the governance of K- sports club, three building elements of local governance were used to find out tasks for settling advanced sports system. Those three elements were environment, organizational structure and infrastructure.
For this purpose, case study and Dephi technique including Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was adapted. First, The ''BLUE K-sports club'' was chosen for the research environment. Using the purposeful sampling and strategic informant sampling, and the final 16 participants were selected. The data was collected through participant observation, in-depth interviews, field survey questionnarie, and then those were analyzed with Creswell''s(2013) qualitative analysis methods. Second, Delphi technique and Analytic Hierarchy Process were used for the study. 20 experts were comprised through Purposeful sampling. All contents were collected through professional questionnaires with Delphi Technique and AHP three times. From that, we analyzed the factors and research the relative importance and priorities of the K-sports club centered local governance for settling advanced sports club system. The results of study were as follow.
First, the operation system of Blue K-sports club was divided into six major parts. Those major parts were facilities management, operation of program, public relations and member management, connections with external agencies and finance management. And the reality of Blue K-sports club’s governance was suggested focused on Blue K-sports club’s operation system.
Second, tasks of settling local governance for advanced Korea sports system were categorized into three groups. First group consists of three main factors which are environment, organizational structure and infrastructure factor. Second group consists of eleven factors which were divided from three main factors. Third group composed of 42 detail factors. It turned out that the most important detail factor was support for K- sports club through setting rules by local government(.115). Revising sports club support article of Sports for All Promotion Act(.069), normalizing work of united athletic association(.058), delegation of Public Sports Facilities'' management authority(.051) were confirmed one after another.
Third, network- type local governance model was suggested for settling local governance based on priority and importance of detail tasks. The key point of this model was a ''K- sports club centered local governance''. This model consisted of Local residents, subordinate sports club, K-sports club, supporting center of Metropolitan City, united athletic association, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The center of this model was K-sports club. There were Local residents, subordinate sports club below a K-sports club. On the top of K-sports club were athletic association of city, united athletic association, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The K-sports club was located in athletic association for efficient connection with a local government. Subordinate sports clubs which were at the lower structure of K-sports club took on a role of opening school sport facilities for local residents.