Korea Subak Association Submits Traditional Subak Educational Resources to UNESCO-UNEVOC OER Listing

The Korea Subak Association and the World Subak Federation announced that they recently submitted traditional Subak-related open educational resources (OER) to the UNESCO-UNEVOC TVET OER resource listing. UNESCO-UNEVOC is UNESCO’s international center for technical and vocational education and training (TVET), supporting global educational cooperation, open learning resources, and skills-based education initiatives. According to the association, […]

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Remembering Song Chang-ryeol: Korean War Veteran and Transmitter of the Traditional Korean Martial Art Subak

(Reporter Kim Min-jeong)= Korean War Veteran Song Chang-ryeol, Successor of Traditional Martial Arts Subak and Ssireum (Mindung) As the 76th anniversary of the Korean War approaches, attention is being drawn to the life and legacy of the late Song Chang-ryeol, a Korean War veteran and traditional transmitter of the Korean martial art Subak. Song Chang-ryeol […]

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Subak and the UNESCO 2003 Convention:

Documentation, Transmission, and the Safeguarding of Korean Martial Intangible Heritage Abstract This paper examines the relationship between Subak, a traditional Korean martial art, and the safeguarding principles established in the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Although Subak has not been inscribed on UNESCO’s official lists of intangible cultural heritage, […]

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International Documentation of Subak in the UNESCO-Associated Global Martial Arts Survey:

Historical Transmission, Indigenous Body Culture, and the Song Chang-ryeol Lineage Abstract This paper examines the international documentation of Subak within the global martial arts survey published by the International Centre of Martial Arts for Youth Development and Engagement under the auspices of UNESCO, a UNESCO Category 2 international institution dedicated to martial arts research and […]

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2006 Korea Sports Council Research Award Winner. The Rebirth of a Lost Korean Combat Tradition.

This content documents the authentic lineage of Subak, a traditional Korean combat art. In 2006, the historical research on the discovery of Master Song Chang-ryeol (the predecessor) was formally recognized with the Research Award from the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee. Validated by historian Kim Jae-il and featured in a special documentary by EBS (Korea […]

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Preserving Endangered Martial Heritage Through Digital Documentation: The Case of Korean Subak and the Kim Won-bo Footage

In recent years, researchers and practitioners of traditional Korean Subak have been studying rare historical footage connected to Kim Won-bo, a Korean independence activist during the Japanese colonial period. The footage is important not only as martial arts material, but also as an example of embodied cultural knowledge that risks disappearing across generations. Traditional movement […]

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