(Reporter Kim Min-jeong) = Han Seong-ho, the newly appointed President of the World Subak Federation LLC, headquartered in Wyoming, USA (and former County Governor of the Office of the Five Northern Provinces under the Ministry of the Interior and Safety), officially announced the appointment of Master Jeong Byeong-in, a recipient of the Intangible Cultural Heritage designation, as the Federation’s “Artistic Director-General.”
This appointment is an administrative decision aimed at globalizing Subak as an asset and elevating the academic and artistic verification of the “Research Society for Northern Korean Physical Culture” under the Federation to a world-class level. In particular, the new Artistic Director-General, Jeong Byeong-in, is a recipient of “Tungsosinau,” the second Intangible Cultural Heritage of South Hamgyong Province, Korea, and is preserving the music and performing arts movements of the northern cultural sphere of the Korean Peninsula.
President Han Seong-ho stated in his official letter of appointment, “I am pleased that an expert in Northern traditional arts has joined us,” adding, “Based on Director Jeong’s expertise, we will thoroughly authenticate the biomechanics of ‘Subak Dance,’ the artistic scope of the traditional martial art Subak, and accelerate research into the hunting physical culture of the ‘Chakhogapsa,’ a military unit of the Joseon Dynasty that hunted tigers, as well as the Hamgyeongdo wrestling heritage of Rikidozan.”
Artistic Director Jeong Byeong-in will depart this Tuesday, immediately after his appointment, to participate in the Nantes Festival in France. Director Jeong plans to film Subak Dance movements—combining traditional Tungso melodies with the rhythm of the Lion Dance—at local French art stages and major locations in Paris as global short-form content to be released to the world.
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