Research Annuity Designed to Enhance Athletic Performance

• Eligibility: Persons who have won an international competition and have earned 20 or more evaluation points.
• Standard: Evaluation points will be allocated according to the ranking or awards won in international competitions

Research grant for game coaches

• Eligibility: Coaches who have trained national players or teams and contributed to winning medals.
• Standard: Evaluation points will be allocated according to the ranking or awards won by the trained players in international competitions

Special subsidy

• Eligibility: Athletes who have made significant contributions to the development of Korean sports or the promotion of national prestige, but who have financial difficulty in earning a living (general subjects, special subjects).

Subsidy for the protection of players and coaches

• Eligibility: (Accidental insurance subsidy) Persons who require treatment and long-term hospitalization due to serious injury, among those eligible for accident insurance support (long-term hospitalization treatment subsidy), including national team players and coaches who participate in training or games run by sports organizations, etc.
• Standard: (Accident insurance subsidy) Shortage for hospitalization costs, surgical costs, treatment costs, etc. after paying the copay under group accident insurance (subsidy for long-term hospitalization treatment costs).

Disability pension

• Eligibility: Former national team players or coaches with a serious physical and/or mental disabilities among the beneficiaries of long-term hospitalization treatment subsidies.

• Standard:

  (Grade 1) Persons who cannot carry out their daily activities by themselves and require a guardian/assistant at all times.
  (Grade 2) Persons who have difficulty in carrying out their daily activities by themselves and are unable to earn a living.
  (Grade 3) Persons who cannot continue with their sports career due to a partial physical disability and who have difficulty earning a living.

Subsidy for overseas study

• Eligibility: Persons who have scored 40 or more points in the assessment for the performance improvement research pension among retired national team players.
• Study area: Sports-related subjects.
• Range of support: Admission fees, tuition fees, airfares, cost of accommodation, etc.

Sports scholarships

• Eligibility: Student players or athletes who are highly qualified, well-conducted, and have been recommended by the President of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee or the President of the Korea Paralympic Committee.
  • (General scholarship) Upper-grade winners in national level games and events held by the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee or the Korea Paralympic Committee.
  • (Special scholarship) Players who are selected as excellent athletes in national sports festivals held by the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee or the Korea Paralympic Committee and who have participated in player improvement training.

Welfare funds

• (Life subsidies for national team players) Persons who experience economical difficulty, such as recipients of national basic livelihood guarantees, among active national team players. (Subsidy for a career change to sports experts) Persons whose income is not higher than 100% of the mid-level income based on the total income of family members among beneficiaries of the performance improvement research pension. (Graduate school scholarship) Retired members of a national team. (Short-term training fees) Retired members of a national team.