Although its departure is based on `body movement`, `esthetical experience`, the foundation of current esthetics and significant experience of our life has been not much perceived as a core part of somaesthetics via philosophical tradition of sports b...
Although its departure is based on `body movement`, `esthetical experience`, the foundation of current esthetics and significant experience of our life has been not much perceived as a core part of somaesthetics via philosophical tradition of sports because of biased stereo type perception, esthetics as an artistic value. Therefore, the potentiality or function of somaesthetics need to be fundamentally considered through taekwondo. The purpose of this study was to analyze the first, definition of somaesthetics, the second, the mutual relationships of taekwondo and somaesthetics, and the third, three dimensions of somaesthetics, and lastly, the validity taekwondo and somaesthetics based on the shusterman`s somaesthetics theorie.