Throughout the long history of sports, gender has been shown substantial effect on quality of practices, opportunities, and experiences. Recently International Olympic Committee(IOC) announced gender equality within the Olympic Movement. Despite the worldwide efforts and changes, a question remains in South Korea. The primary purpose of the study is to identify the gender typing of sports in Korea in depth, to provide comprehensive overview to understand Korean young adult’s gender stereotype in sports. The data were collected from 523 university students. For the analysis, study used SPSS 20.0 programs, the collected data were analyzed by frequency, reliability, confirmatory analysis, mean analysis and t-test. The major findings are as follow: (1) out of 77 sports 38 sports were classified as “Neutral”, and 8 sports were categorized as “Feminine”; dance sports, synchronized swimming, aquarobics, aerobic, yoga, pilates, Korean dance and gymnastics. And 31 sports were categorized as “Masculine”; rugby, wrestling, football, mixed martial arts, hunting, boxing, baseball, kickboxing, fishing, foot volleyball, soccer, basketball, triathlon, ice hockey, judo, futsal, kendo, bodybuilding and health, cycling, survival, gunnery, billiards, field hockey, hapkido, crossbow, canoe, rafting, inline hockey, track and taekwondo. (2) the result indicated that the sex difference had a significant effect on gender typing of sports; according to the results, male participants scored higher in ‘masculine’ sports activities and marked lower score in ‘feminie’ sports activities.