Since then, it has expanded to include facilitating and supporting community-based sports programs, promoting an active lifestyle to the public and funding research in athlete performance.
[2] The company receives funding from the government and revenue earned from Sports Toto, one of the country's few legal betting services.
[2][3] In addition, when cable TV was launched in 1995, a cable channel called 'Korea Sports TV' was also operated, but management difficulties worsened due to the IMF crisis, so it was transferred to SBS in 1999 and changed to SBS Sports the following year, and continues to this day.
The KSPO sponsors two professional sports team (cycling and women's football) and athletes in the Olympic disciplines of canoeing, diving, fencing and marathon running and Paralympic skiing.
Notable athletes on its roster include fencers Kim Jung-hwan and Gu Bon-gil and diver Woo Ha-ram.