The purpose of this study was to investigate research trends of marine sports in Korea using content analysis. This study analyzed 256 articles published in journal from 2000 to 2011. Articles were spilt into three groups for period division, 2000-2004, 2005-2008, 2009-2011 and classified to research author, areas, subject, research type, level of academic articles, sampling method, data analysis method. The major results were as follows. First, the number of articles and the average number of authors have increased over time. Second, sport psychology was the most popular research areas, descriptive research was the most popular research type, followed by analytic research Third, analysis of articles` thema indicated that the most popular topics was policy and improvement of marine sports promotion, followed by cognition, affection and motivation, sport tourism Fourth, result of sampling method indicated that convenient sampling technique was the most frequently used method, followed by purposive sampling, stratified cluster sampling. Fifth, result of data analysis method showed that multiple regression analysis was the most frequently used method, followed by reliability test, factor analysis, frequency analysis, analysis of variance.