[Golf Topic] Gallup: "Golf Is Not a Luxury Sport, 59%"

The proportion of people who consider golf a luxurious sport has sharply decreased.

[Asia Economy Reporter No Woo-rae] ○…The proportion of people who think golf is a luxurious sport has dropped to half in 30 years.

According to the 'Public Opinion Survey on Golf' released by Gallup Korea on the 12th, 36% of respondents considered golf a luxurious sport. Among the 1,004 respondents, 36% answered that golf is a luxurious sport, 59% said it is not, and 5% were unsure or refused to answer. This figure is about half compared to the 72% who answered that golf was a luxurious sport in the same survey conducted in 1992.

The percentage of respondents who said they know how to play golf also surged from 2% in 1992 to 34% in this year's survey. In the 2007 survey, 9% of respondents said they knew how to play golf, followed by 18% in 2013 and 24% in 2018, showing a continuous increase. This survey was conducted between the 5th and 7th by randomly selecting samples from the wireless phone RDD sample frame (including 10% from landline phone RDD) through telephone interviewer interviews. The sampling error is ±3.1 percentage points (95% confidence level), and the response rate is 11.5%.

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