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Background/Objective: South Korea's 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth is the second comprehensive evaluation of physical activity and the sources of influence based on the 10 core indicators provided by the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance. It will serve as an advocacy tool to promote physical activity among children and youth. Methods: Three national surveillance data (i.e., 2017 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey, 2016 Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2016 Physical Activity Promotion System) were used as main sources to evaluate the indicators. Descriptive statistics were performed to obtain prevalence estimates of physical activity-related indicators. In addition, expert opinions as well as the most recently available published or unpublished relevant sources were synthesized. Results: South Korea's 2018 Report Card, compared to the 2016 Report Card, showed favourable changes in the Active Transportation (Bþ), Organized Sports Participation (C), Sedentary Behaviours (D), and School (Dþ) indicators, while unfavourable changes were shown in Overall Physical Activity (F) and Government (D). Physical Fitness was graded as Dþ. In parallel with the 2016 Report Card, Active Play, Family and Peers, and Community and Environment remain ungraded due to insufficient data. Conclusions: Successes as well as gaps and research needs were identified in the 2018 Report Card. Though some indicators have shown improvement, most children and youth continue to be insufficiently physically active with overall poor grades (Average of Dþ). To achieve substantial improvement in all ce Laboratory, Institute of Sports Science, Department of Physical Education, Seoul National University, 71-1 408, 1 eisure Studies, Yonsei University, 308 Sport Sciences Building, Yonsei-ro 50, Seoul, 03722, South Korea. [email protected] (E.-Y. Lee), [email protected] (J. Lim), [email protected] (S.-H. Lee), [email protected] .ac.kr (B. Oh), [email protected] (C.G. Lee), [email protected] (D.H. Lee), [email protected] (H.J. Lee), [email protected]. [email protected] (M.-S. Yu), [email protected] (S.-H. SUH), [email protected] (S. Park), [email protected] (S. Lee), [email protected] (W. Song), [email protected] (Y. Yu), [email protected] (Y. Song), [email protected]