Department chairman Liu Shao-tung notes that although NUK's was the first kinesiology, health and leisure studies department in Taiwan, similar programs have a 30-year history in the United States.
系主任劉紹東表示，國內「運動健康與休閒學系」雖是高雄大學首創，但類似的系所在美國卻已經有 30 年歷史了，從中也可以看出我國科系更新的速度不足。