This study, aiming at the leisure activity of children, has a purpose to
contemplate the relationship between the curriculum of practical subject and leisure
activity by investigating phenomenon of daily life and leisure activity of Korean
and Japan children.
Followings were revealed by this study.
1) Cellular phone possession rate and the number of out-of-school activity of
Korean children are two times higher than those of Japanese indicating that the
Korean investment for an education is more than that of Japan. When it comes to
an activity in the school and out of the school, children of both countries spend
time on indoor activity like watching TV, cartoons or surfing internet so there is
little difference between them.
2) When it is adjusted to the relationship between practical subject and leisure
activity, Korean children are more likely to get playing experience through a
lesson than children of Japan and they recognize the connection to a lesson, from
their daily playing. Also, it is shown that Korean children tend to have more
degrees of recognition in the relationship between the leisure activity of practical
subject and self-recognition of children.
Same as above, considering the leisure activity as the spontaneous and
self-complete culture of children, we can notice that Japan children fully recognize
the estrangement between culture of school having practical subject and daily life
culture while Korean children grasp the point harmoniously with recognition of the
connection between practical subjects of school and daily life culture.