Swing events at the 32nd Korean Games.

The 32nd Korean Games had swing competition events.

Korean springboard and swing, traditional sports in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritage.

The Koreans are a sports-loving nation, and springboard and swing are traditional folk sports favored by Korean women and have a wide popularity. As a kind of sports and competitive games, springboard is popular in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Jilin Province and other Korean-inhabited places in the country, and springboard activities are usually held on the Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival and other festive days.

Swinging activities are characterized by high, floating, leisurely, skillful, soft, beautiful and joyful. Swing ropes are usually tied to the sturdy branches of tall trees, and there are colorful ribbons or bells hanging in the air in front of the swing, and the swinging boards have to touch this symbol to win cheers and praises.

Sport Features

Swing ropes are usually tied to the strong branches of tall trees, and there are colored ribbons or bells hanging in the air in front of the swings, which the swinging boards have to touch in order to win cheers and praise. Often, one person swings, and all eyes are on them, and the sidelines are filled with applause. Gaudy dresses like the wings of the colorful phoenix, driving a wisp of wind, far away, the sky is blue, grass is green, thick makeup and light Korean girls like flying colorful butterflies, in the sky fluttering to and fro.

Large-scale swinging competition is more fascinating, more in the agricultural period and the Dragon Boat Festival and other festivals, when the Korean women dressed in festive attire to participate in the competition, there are two methods of competition, one than the height of swinging, the other is more than the number of times than kicking the bell that is more than the endurance. Competition can often be seen hanging high in the air with a leather drum, swinging girls in the onlookers shouting the sound of cheering high swinging, kicking the drum in the air, who kicked the highest number of times, who will become the champion of the competition.