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The purpose of this research is to evaluate the injury situation of Elementary School students. The injury reports from 259 Elementary schools over 4 seasons from the year 2004 to 2008 in Kangwon Provence in a skiing resort emergency room. The results discuss details from the following variables; skiing injury frequency, injury type, injury and cause factors, area of injury and type of injury according to age. 1. There was a higher injury rate of boys (57.1%) than girls (42.9%). As for the type of injury 32.1% of injuries were bruises, 22.0% to the tendons, 21.2% to the skeletal system(bone fracture), and 14.7% lacerations. 2. Over 97% of the skiing injuries were caused by collision and falling. The highest rate of injury by collision was in the order of snowbaorders colliding with skiiers, skiiers colliding with other skiiers, and skiiers colliding with snowboarders. 3. It was noted that the major cause of accident wasn't due to defects and imperfect equipment and climate, slope conditions etc. but from the skiiers' lack of technique and skill. 4. As for the regions of injury 63.3% to the lower extremities, 19.7% to the head and 13.5% to the upper extremities. During the late 1990s the highest region of injury in order was the head, lower limbs, and upper limbs while after 2000 the highest region of injury was the lower limbs, head and upper limbs.