In looking into causes of serious accidents occurred in sports circumstances in South Korea, most of those were due to the absence of fundamental points like an insufficiency of preventive perceptions of coaches and staffs and a carelessness of management of athletes, an absence of rescue equipments and emergency systems, not to inevitable causes. Also, when the accidents were occurred, responsible relative organizations or associations must take complementary measures with critical investigation of the causes of accidents in order not to be occurred again. However, those didn t have enough records or statistics about the serious accidents had been occurred by now. Therefore, a clear grasp of the present regarding kinds of accidents occurred in sports circumstances was presented as the problem above all. This study was to prevent the legal conflict by the close examination and investigation of accidents in sports circumstances for elite sports and to provide basic data which were helpful for the promotion of safety-perceptions, prevention against serious accidents, preservation and management of athletes in order to establish circumstances that athletes were able to do their best. This study was aimed at professional sports, athletes, and coaches which had registered for sports associations affiliated with Korea Sports Council from the liberation from Japan in 1945. The method of this study was a research of the literature on national news, articles and judical precedents. The articles from Chosun Il-bo and Chungang Il-bo from 1945 to 31, Dec, 1989 and from KINDS, Korean article browsing web site, from 1, Jan, 1990 to 31, Jul, 2005 were used as data in this study. Also, compact discs and sport-related judical reports gathered in the library of law court were analysed for national cases. The serious accidents presented in this study were game-related and training-related accidents, the subjects of this study limited to the deaths, patients with general or lower half of body paralysis who have to be lived as people with disability for the rest of life, amputees, the blinds, except people, who had been injured, with no problem to live at present normally. Besides, if the articles didn t make a report of any profile of people died and injured by accidents, they were excluded in the process of calculating the number from this study. Because of this reason, there would be differences between the real numbers of people died and injured by accidents and the cited numbers of people in this study. The results of this study were as follows.