March 03, 2025
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Old Book Chronicles Traditional Korean Martial Arts

Date: 03/03/2025 | Source: Naenara (En) | Read original version at source

Among the Korean cultural heritage is a martial arts book Muyedobothongji .

Compiled in 1790, the illustrated book contains 24 types of martial art movements which emerged through the struggle against foreign invasion.

The pictures of the typical martial arts book were drawn by Kim Hong Do, a famous painter in the period of the feudal Joson dynasty (1392-1910).

With explanations of each movement, compilers arranged the pictures of martial art movements in succession so that practitioners could perform each of them in order.

At the time many could easily practise various martial art movements with the help of the book.

The illustrated book is composed of parts showing methods of handling weapons such as sword and spear, fist fighting, mounted fighting, kyokku (a kind of polo) and others.

For its significance in tracing the history of Taekwon-Do, the orthodox Korean martial art, and other oriental martial arts, Muyedobothongji was inscribed on the Asia-Pacific list of the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO in May 2016 and then on the list of the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO in October 2017.

The Korean people love practising Taekwon-Do, and they steal the show at international competitions.

Kim Wi Hyok

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