Visit from Korea
Visit from IOC Research Centre Korea
On August 22, 2019, the reknowned Professor In Deok Kong and members of his team from the Yonsei Institute of Sports Science and Exercise Medicine in Korea visited us in Trondheim. The informal meeting could be the first step towards to a fruitful collaboration between our two research centres.
Exercise until you're 100 years old!
CERG and the IOC Research Centre Korea share several research interests, especially when it comes to physical activity and prevention of life-style related diseases. Professor In Deok Kong and his team came to Trondheim with a particular interest in our Generation 100 Study, and CERG's Dorthes Stensvold presented the project at our meeting. Professor Kong's own research group leads a project with a somewhat similar ambition: Their National Fitness 100 program aims to prescribe customized exercise programs to all Korean citizens until the age of 100! The impressive research includes a shuttle walk test of 200,000(!) participants, providing unique and extremely powerful data on the physical fitness in a large population-based sample.
Exercise Medicine for Healthy Life and The Health Gap: Physical Activity and Health are also among the numerous large research projects lead by Professor Kong and his team. These projects are not very different from many of CERG's research activities, and we are delighted to have had the Korean delegation as guest, showed them our research facilities, and learnt about their interesting research.
About IOC Research Center Korea
The Yonsei Institute of Sports Science and Exercise Medicine (YISSEM) focuses on research to promote public health and prevent injury. The research centre is part of the Yonsei University in the Korean capital Seoul, one of the country's most research-intensive universities.
YISSEM is Asia's first and only research center for prevention of injury and protection of athletic health. In January 2019, the centre was officially recognized as one of the eleven IOC Research Centres across the world. These centres receive support from the International Olympic Comittee to develop effective preventive and treatment methods for sports-related injuries and illnesses.
Contact
In Deok Kong, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physiology
Director, Center for Exercise Medicine
Wonju College of Medicine
Yonsei University, Korea
kong@yonsei.ac.kr