After taekkyeon was designated as acultural heritage, there was constant conflicts between associations aboutoriginality and membership of Korean Olympic Committee. Currently 3associations are trying to unify themselves. Korea Taekkyon Federation and ...
After taekkyeon was designated as acultural heritage, there was constant conflicts between associations aboutoriginality and membership of Korean Olympic Committee. Currently 3associations are trying to unify themselves. Korea Taekkyon Federation and Korea Taekgyeon Associationalready unified.
In this situation, Widae TaekkyeonOrganization, which was established recently, got into the middle of the debatefor claiming that they possess the originality. And after getting to know Widaetaekkyeon, several leaders, who were famous in their associations and hadexperience as competitors, transferred their association.
To examine this phenomenon, by using purposeful sampling, thisresearch contains deep interview. 1 leaders who had experience as a competitorare selected for each associations as interviewees. From them this researchtried to find out what chances has made them to contact Widae Taekkyeon, andhow is the reproduction process after transferring their association.
The research practiced a non-structuralizedinterview with the participators of the research, interview was recorded byusing a recorder, and transcribed. The transcript was analyzed by using open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. By thisprocess, 16 notions, 8 subordinate categories, and 4 categories was acquired.It was able to gain following conclusions.
Firstly, 3 taekkyeon associations learnedtaekkyeon from same master but had different training systems and intentions,which made them to follow different pathways. It was the main reason ofconstant controversies. However recent associations’ controversies was wrappedup and unifications were in process. In this background situation, WidaeTaekkyeon Association’s establishment aims to stop further distortion of theoriginal form of Taekkyeon, and succeed Master Song, Duk-gi’s art by followingKo, Yong-woo, who is the direct disciple of Song.
Secondly, research participants was highlyengaged with prior associations and their capabilities was acknowledged butthey had conflicts with the president of association and had different opinionsabout Widae Taekkyeon.
Thirdly, research participants contactedwith Widae Taekkyeon by other person’s suggestion or their own doubts aboutoriginal form of taekkyeon. They decided transferring the association becauseof the experience of movements, principles, and techniques, which were not ableto find in other association’s curriculums.
Fourthly, reproduction process throughWidae Taekkyeon is showing two ways. One is transferring the associationcompletely and teaching Song, Duk-gi’s full taekkyeon or teaching with trainingsystem, which is made by complementally combining the prior associationstraining system with Widae Taekkyeon’s training system.
But the unification of two major associations, Korea Taekkyon Federationand Korea Taekgyeon Association,would rather make the reproduction process and transfer to Widae Taekkyeonwither away if there is no further historical materials suggested or additionalexpansions followed, since any taekkyeon association needs the title as anational cultural heritage, UNESCO cultural heritage, and the membership ofKorea Olympic Committee.