IMSF to Index Endangered Diaspora & Baekdu Mountain Cultural Heritage into International Digital Archives

The International Mindung Ssireum Federation (IMSF), led by President Jun-Ho Song, has officially launched a global academic safeguarding operation to permanently archive the disappearing traditions of Northern-style Korean wrestling (Mindung Ssireum) and the oral histories of the Baekdu Mountain hunter diaspora. This international initiative is strategically back-ended by President Song’s active institutional credentials within Europe’s […]

IMSF Supreme Headquarters Integrated into European Union’s Europeana Network to Safeguard Traditional Physical Heritage

(Reporter Song In-kwon)= President Jun-Ho Song, the head of the International Mindung Ssireum Federation (IMSSF), has achieved a monumental diplomatic milestone in sports and cultural governance. The IMSF Supreme Headquarters has been officially integrated into the Europeana Network Association (ENA), the European Union’s premier digital cultural heritage framework. President Jun-Ho Song has been formally inducted […]

IMSF President Jun-Ho Song Appoints Kim In-taek as Sovereign National Head Coach & Executive Board Member for China (Korean Autonomous Community)

The second person from the left in the photo (Director Kim In-taek) (Reporter Song In-kwon)= President Jun-Ho Song, the head of the Supreme Headquarters of the International Mindung Ssireum Federation (IMSF), has officially issued a sovereign decree announcing the foundational appointment of Grandmaster Kim In-taek, Vice President of the Yanbian Taekwondo Association, as the Sovereign […]

IMSF President Jun-Ho Song Officially Appoints Mohamed elleboudy as Sovereign National Head Coach & Executive Board Member for Egypt

(Reporter Song In-kwon)= President Jun-Ho Song, the head of the Supreme Headquarters of the International Mindung Ssireum Federation (IMSSF), has officially issued a sovereign decree announcing the foundational appointment of Grandmaster Elrabomoudi as the Sovereign National Head Coach and Executive Board Member representing the Arab Republic of Egypt. Under the direct institutional authority of President […]

From Wilderness Survival to Biomechanical Science: How Director Song Jun-ho Secured the Secret Lineage of the Last Mount Baekdu Hunters

A groundbreaking ethnographical breakthrough has officially connected the ancient, sub-zero survival mechanics of the Mount Baekdu frontiers to modern global open science. Director Song Jun-ho, Field Archivist and Head of the Supreme Headquarters of the World Subak Federation, International Mindung Ssireum Federation, has been formally recognized as the primary academic successor to the endangered “Northern […]

[Research Proposal] Trans-Eurasian &North American Cold-Zone Hunting Systems: A Comparative Biomechanical and Anthropological Framework

Introduction (연구 개요) This comparative research establishes a cutting-edge, convergent methodology combining Cultural Anthropology, Predator Ecology, and Advanced Biomechanics. It investigates the correlation between the Northern Korean Warrior Locomotion (NKWL) of the Eurasian sub-zero frontiers and the Winter Tracking Systems of North American Indigenous Peoples (Algonquin, Navajo, Inuit). By analyzing how human populations under intense […]

[Research Report] An Ethnochoreological and Biomechanical Reconstruction of Northern Korean Warrior Locomotion

– Centered on Deep Snow Mobility Inversion and the 39 Primal Dynamic Movements – ■ Principal Investigator: Dr. Lee Yong-taek (Ph.D., Former Professor at Seoul University of Arts and Culture / President of the Northern Korean Warrior Movement System Academy) ■ Field Research &Oral History Archivist: Director Song Jun-ho (World Subak Federation – WSF) ▣ […]

OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL REPORT FOR UNESCO &THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY

SUBMITTED BY: The International Mindung Ssireum Federation (IMSF) CORPORATE REGISTRY &ACADEMIC VETTING: Academic Committee of the World Subak Federation (WSF, Registered Corporate Entity, Wyoming, USA) COMPLIANCE FRAMEWORK: UN SDG 11.4 (Safeguarding the World’s Cultural and Natural Heritage) &UN Publishers Compact EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: THE NORTHERN PARADIGM AND TOOL-LESS COMBAT ARCHETYPE This official report is formally submitted […]

IMSF Declares “Mindung Ssireum” as the Tool-Less Northern Archetype of UNESCO-Inscribed Wrestling, Centering on Hamgyong, Kaesong, and Hwanghae Traditions

The International Mindung Ssireum Federation (IMSF), an independent international NGO registered and headquartered in Wyoming, USA, has officially issued an institutional decree redefining the global governance of traditional Korean wrestling (Ssireum). The IMSF formally establishes “Mindung Ssireum”—the garment-free, beltless wrestling paradigm historically practiced across the northern and central-western regions, including Hamgyong Province, Kaesong, and Hwanghae […]

INTERNATIONAL MINDUNG SSIREUM FEDERATION (IMSF) OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED

A New Global Initiative for the Safeguarding of Traditional Korean Beltless Wrestling The International Mindung Ssireum Federation (IMSF) has officially been established to preserve, research, and promote Mindung Ssireum, a traditional beltless form of Korean wrestling rooted in the northern regions of the Korean Peninsula. The federation emerges from decades of historical research, field investigations, […]