Search for the developmental direction of Han Youngsook’s Taepyeongmu, a national Intangible Cultural Heritage

The purpose of this study is to explore the developmental direction of Han Youngsook’s Taepyeongmu. Kang Seonyeong’s Taepyeongmu had been the only kind since the designation of Taepyeongmu as a South Korean Intangible Cultural Heritage in 1998. With the enforcement of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Act in 2016, the policy of one holder per item was updated to recognizie multiple holders. When Han Youngsook’s Taepyeongmu was designated as a national Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2019, Park Jaehee was acknowledged as a holder as well. Under this circumstance, further research on the dissemination and inheritance of Han Yeongsook’s Taepyeongmu is greatly required. However, such research should be preceded by a study to recognize the unique characteristics of Han Yongsook’s Taepeyongmu as differing from that of Kang Seonyoung’s should be preceded, along with the study of the fundamentals of Han Yongsook’s Taepeyongmu. Accordingly, we investigated the origins of Han Yongsook’s Taepyeongmu, emphasized the characteristics of Han Yongsook’s Taepyeongmu through comparison with Kang Seonyeong’s Taepyeongmu, and further analyzed Park Jaehee’s Taepyeongmu, which inherited Han Youngsook’s Taepyeongmu. Based on this, we suggested the direction of Han Youngsook’s Taepyeongmu.