May 2026

The Korea Subak Association and the World Subak Federation are expanding international educational and archival initiatives focused on traditional northern Korean body culture through global educational platforms including MERLOT and KOCW. The project seeks to preserve and internationally introduce traditional cultural practices connected to the historical body culture of the Korean Peninsula, including Subak, Subak […]

The World Subak Federation announced the official launch of a global open course series on KOCW (Korea Open CourseWare), Korea’s premier public higher education platform, in collaboration with the Korea Subak Association. This groundbreaking initiative aims to digitize, archive, and distribute free historical knowledge about “Subak”—a disappearing traditional Korean physical culture and martial art—to students, […]

The World Subak Federation (WSF) has announced a landmark initiative to institutionalize and globalize Subak—one of Korea’s oldest traditional martial arts and an invaluable intangible cultural heritage—by establishing a rigorous academic foundation and a cutting-edge international education framework. In a significant milestone for the preservation of traditional movement culture, the WSF has successfully archived its […]

Former Seoul National University of Culture and Arts Professor Lim Hong-taek Officially Accepts Academic Committee Chairman of the World Subak Federation (Reporter Kim Min-jeong) = The World Subak Federation, an international corporation based in Wyoming, USA, announced that it has officially appointed Dr. Lim Hong-taek, a former professor at Seoul National University of Culture and […]

Rooted in Jincheon-gun’s Early Support, the Award-winning Research Formally Excavated the Kaesong Lineage of Min Wan-sik and Oh Jin-hwan Scholarly Monograph Published via Kyobo Book Centre and Globally Indexed in SSRN and Google Scholar for Digital Archiving BodySEOUL, South Korea — The structural framework to preserve Korea’s rare indigenous physical culture has achieved a historical […]

Academic initiatives to establish Korea’s rare traditional movement heritage, “Subak” and “Subak-Chum” (Subak dance), as globally recognized intangible cultural assets are gaining significant momentum. A high-level international academic webinar titled “Historical Verification and Academic Archiving of the Traditional Martial Art Subak” was successfully convened, chaired by Professor Shin Hye-jin of Seoul National University. Professor Shin […]