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What are the traditional sports in Korea?

Traditional Korean sports include swinging, springboard and cupping.

Swing is a folk game in early Korean festivals. Later, with the gradual popularization, it evolved into a national traditional sports. In today's Korean people, swinging is one of women's favorite sports activities, and it is also an essential project to celebrate festivals and sports meetings.

Springboard is a traditional activity that Korean women love. There is a folklore about the origin of this activity. In ancient times, according to custom, Korean women could not leave home and stayed at home for a long time. So they invented a game called springboard, which is actually jumping in the air to see the scenery outside the wall. Over time, this situation gradually evolved into a traditional sports activity.

Korean women are famous for their hard work, and walking the jar is a very important life custom for Korean women. They have been learning to walk in jars since childhood. In the long-term exercise, they can walk in the jar without hands, naturally relaxed, generous and rhythmic. Later, this lifestyle gradually evolved into a very distinctive traditional Korean sport-"Gyro can walk".