This study was aimed to have theoretical establishment for enhancing national spirits and preventing the transformation of traditional culture through the analysis on the changes in Korean traditional archery and its socio-cultural functions based on ...
This study was aimed to have theoretical establishment for enhancing national spirits and preventing the transformation of traditional culture through the analysis on the changes in Korean traditional archery and its socio-cultural functions based on the specific character of the Korean archery - one of the representative identity of Korean people. The study divided the period from 1894 to the present into the four periods of ordeal colonial period, revival a take-off and sudden rise in an effort to achieve this goal.
This study was conducted to document the socio-cultural functions of Korean traditional archery by period based on its philosophical theories and principles, suggest them as an educational tool and further provide us with basic data for the establishment of Korean peoples' identity. In this end, it was conducted based on the analysis of primary & secondary sources and the interviews and researcher's experiences.
The following results were obtained from this study. Korean traditional archery in the flowering and Japanese colonial period played a socio-cultural role as national physical education by stirring up the awareness of national resistance by the encounter and exchange of the people and diffusing a will to become independent through the cultivation of competent people with literary and military accomplishments for restoring national sovereignty and holding various archery competitions. It also took a socio-cultural function as the organization of National Archery Association and an affiliated group under Korea Sports Council & Korean Olympic Committee based on uni-nationalism and thought of sound peoples. Furthermore, it took a socio-cultural function as a community sport through the activation of regional economy and harmony of local residents according to an increase in newly-held Korean traditional archery competitions in the form of regional culture festivals with the aid of the policy of activating national physical education and the implementation of local self-government.
In addition, it has been investigated that Korean traditional archery served as socio-integral and socio-control functions as physical education through the superior thought of the Korean traditional archery and land-oriented features - the representative identity of Korean peoples - along with the prevention of transformation of traditional culture through the theoretical establishment and systematization of Korean traditional archery for its globalization in the age of international society and culture of the 21st century.