Heejung Hong

University of Stirling · School of Sport

This study explores the experiences of British elite swimmers in developing life skills during and throughout their athletic careers, examining the factors that influence their perspectives on this skill development. Six high-profile British swimmers, who have competed at the Commonwealth and/or Olympic Games, were recruited for this study. Semi-st...

This study adopts the athletic career transition model to explore the experiences of Korean dual-career (DC) judokas during their junior-to-senior transition using a longitudinal approach. We recruited 12 Korean elite judokas, all of whom were in their first year of university during their initial interview. Participants were organized into three f...

Introduction This study explores the experiences of Korean elite judokas during their junior to senior transition (JST), including both male and female participants, to provide empirical evidence for the development of tailored support services or programs for this target population. Methods We recruited 12 elite judokas for our study, comprising...

Objectives This study explores the experiences of Olympian judokas, examining both their pursuit of excellence to compete at the Olympics and their subsequent transition out of judo. The aim is to offer empirical evidence regarding the challenges they face in realizing their Olympic dreams, and to shed light on the transitional challenges, availabl...

This study explored the experiences of retired esports players, focusing particularly on their transition out of esports. Utilizing a qualitative approach, interviews were conducted with four retired professional esports players in South Korea. A thematic analysis revealed four recurring themes: career pressure and uncertainty, lack of preretiremen...

This article aims to understand the relationship between basic needs satisfaction, self-determined motivation, and burnout in esports players. To achieve this, we investigate three research hypotheses: (1) The three dimensions of basic needs satisfaction have a positive effect on the self-determined motivation of esports players, (2) The self-deter...

The primary purpose of this case study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a new workshop-based intervention using the five-step career planning and reflect on feedback from participants ( n = 17) with the aim of improving the intervention’s content and structure to apply it to a wider population of higher education students, including student...

This study investigates existing support services/systems that support junior dual career athletes in seven different countries. Specifically, the study aimed to identify: 1) What support services/systems are available for junior dual career athletes in the seven countries? and 2) Are there any similarities or differences between the seven countrie...

This paper investigates high-performance athletes’ development of their financial literacy and self-management skills and the related organisational support available to them during their athletic careers. The data were collected from 20 retired high-performance athletes (10 male and 10 female) representing six different countries (Japan, Mexico, P...

This investigation aims (1) to describe how people associate sport with human values and (2) to analyse the relationship between media involvement with the Olympic Games and those values. Drawing upon the theory of human values [Rokeach, M. (1968). The role of values in public opinion research. Public Opinion Quarterly, 32(4), 547–559. https://doi....

Balancing between two different commitments, sport and education, has been demonstrated as one of the significant challenges for dual career athletes, namely student athletes. Since EU guidelines on dual careers of athletes was published, a number of studies have been conducted on the topic of dual careers. One of the Erasmus+ Sport projects, Dual...

The purpose of study is to identify junior athletes’ challenges and barriers to manage their dual careers (i.e. combining sport and education or sport and work) and explore support systems in place for junior athletes. This is to better understand what junior athletes’ needs are and what the current practices are in that domain within sport organis...

The purpose of the present study is to identify, firstly, existing support services and systems offered to junior athletes and, secondly, national policies on dual career (i.e. combining sport and education or sport and work) in order to better understand current practice within sporting organisations, sport clubs and national governing bodies. Thi...

Aim This article investigates the available support services/interventions offered by sporting organisations worldwide for athletes facing career transitions resulting from suspensions due to violating anti-doping policy. The authors aim to provide an overview of existing support systems and raise an awareness of the need of customised and structur...

A method of compensating for pixel data includes extending a side portion and a corner portion of a real screen to set an virtual screen, setting dimming values of the virtual screen using dimming values of the real screen, calculating an amount of light of each of pixels on the real screen using the dimming values of the virtual screen mapped to a...

A liquid crystal display and a local dimming control method thereof are discussed. The liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal display panel selectively displaying a 2D image and a 3D image in response to a mode signal, a backlight unit including a plurality of light sources, a backlight driving circuit individually driving a plurality of...

In various full HD video applications, high-level image enhancement requires localization of overlay text. In this paper, we propose text localization that uses a region-shrinking multistep process to achieve both high accuracy and fast processing in full HD videos.

A local dimming backlight system achieves both high contrast and low power consumption. The backlight unit (BLU) consists of small blocks. The merits of the local dimming backlight system depend on the size of the blocks. In this work we propose a novel backlight simulator to examine the effect of block_size for edge-type BLUs. The backlight simula...

This paper presents a new backlight dimming approach using dynamic gray-level error control in liquid crystal displays. The existing methods using the fixed rate of clipped pixels degrade the image quality seriously for some images even after image compensation. The proposed method dynamically chooses the maximum luminance based on image integrity...