Korean archery culture that foreigners talk about. Episode 01.

 Topic: Korean archery culture speaker: Thomas Duvernay (Professor at Dongguk University), hello. I'm Thomas Duvernay, a student at Dongguk University in Gyeongju. I came here today to talk about one of the best cultures in Korea. Did you once again confirm that Korea's archery is the best in the world at the Sydney Olympics? It is an infinite honor for me to talk about Korea's most competitive culture, Korea's archery culture, today. Currently, Horimjeong Pavilion in Hwangseong Park in Gyeongju City is holding the National Palace Competition hosted by the Korea Archery Association and Gyeongju Horimjeong for three days as an event of the Gyeongju World Culture Expo, but I can't help but introduce it after seeing the guide of the speech contest on the theme of understanding of Korean culture. I live in Gyeongju, the second hometown, the city of Hwarang, and I think it is a great luck in my life to discover a very valuable traditional culture in Gyeongju. I was looking for a place to learn archery in Gyeongju, but one day I went to a place written "Horimjeong" in Hwangseong Park. Surprisingly, the descendants of the gallery were practicing archery hard there. They devoted themselves to archery without breathing, and Master Park Dong-seop of Deoksan welcomed me, and all the members gave me friendly and kind instruction. I immediately fell deeply into the charm of the Korean archery. Yoon Ki-yong, the head of Horimjeong Pavilion, named my motto Cheongho, and he said that I was given the spirit of the Blue Odaeho Lake in the United States as the lake in Pueulcheong. My hometown is Harbor Springs, a resort city in Michigan where Lake Michigan is located, and it is a beautiful and quiet place. As I learned Korean archery, I became more interested in Korean traditional culture, and I learned how to hold a bow by keeping my mind right and body right from that, which emphasizes as one of the nine archery disciplines. In addition, I took a closer look at the traditional art, Korean bow <Gakgung>, Korean arrow <Juksi>, and how to make the bamboo poem <Traditional>, and took a video of it for three years and introduced it to the world's archers with detailed English explanations. I also introduced it to American archery magazines such as Instinctive Archer, Prudential Archer, and Traditional Bowhunter, contributed several articles about Korean archery, and introduced several articles including Park Geuk-hwan, Jukcheon Choi Geum-dong, and Yu Young-gi, a bow maker of human cultural property. Last summer, there was a world horse court festival in Iowa, USA. In particular, I wanted to introduce Korean traditional horse martial arts archery there, and I received an invitation and tried very hard to promote the work, but unfortunately, the Korean horse martial arts team led by General Manager Kim Young-seop could not attend. Last summer, I went to the Traditional Archery Expo in Pennsylvania, USA, and my son and I were applauded for wearing hanbok, wearing old gat obtained from the antique store, and demonstrating traditional Korean archery wearing socks and old shoes. I wore layers of clothes in the sun of the very hot stadium in August and sweated like rain, but my heart was so proud that it wasn't hot, but after it was over, I took a shower with sweat. Since then, more people from various countries have asked about the bow and culture of Korea, and they are still studying history, and they are asking various teachers what they don't know and giving answers sincerely. Not long ago, a German asked me about "Mangliang". The dictionary says that he is a lakeside that did not hold a government post, but he passed the government office test as a nobleman or nobleman in the Joseon Dynasty, but he has a lot of time waiting for the government post, so it seems to have a negative meaning of eating and playing. And there was a time when someone asked me about Kim Hong-do and I answered happily. <Danwon Kim Hong-do>, a famous genius custom painter, is my most respected painter. He drew the customs of the Joseon Dynasty in a detailed, accurate, and fast canvas, especially my favorite painting, as well. The title is <Shooting Archery>. Here's the picture. There is a freshly worn instructor who holds the posture of a left-handed man who learns archery hard with a leather protector (wet) on his arm, and a bow holder next to it, and bowing means bending the bow back and putting a string on it. When you look at the palaces, they are all round. If you bend the round palace in the opposite direction, it becomes the shape of a bow in this picture.