... as the consilience study

Korean Traditional Dance as a Study of Consilience 1

Baek 00 (0000 University)

I. Introduction

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The study shall meet the needs of people in the same age and have complicated strata with multi-dimensional aims which may explain the essence of individually pursued life. Therefore, the issue of studying and encouragement of learning in the Oriental tradition has been discussed as various forms like 'Study for people', 'Study for yourself', 'Study to reign over people' or 'Study to be a saint' (Kim Gyeongho, 2011, p. 358). Here, it is required to retrace how the traditional Korean dance has been discussed so far.

Ⅱ. Traditional dance as an academy

The School of Korean Traditional Arts in the Korea national University of Arts is the only place to teach traditional dance at the university level in Korea. It means that the school is the only institution which officially focusing on teaching the traditional dance even though a lot of universities have the departments of dancing and teach the traditional dance within the comprehensive range of the dance.

Ⅲ. Traditional dance as an academic method of the consilience

The departments of dance in universities face threat. It is reported that the number of high school students becomes less than the college entrance quota from 2018 and the figure reaches 160,000 in 2023. The department competitiveness in Korean universities is high competition rates from a lot of the entrance quota, no dropout from freshmen and enrolled students and most of all, the high employment rates of the graduates. However, the future of the department of dance is gloomy due to failing to meet such conditions.

IV. Conclusion

Universities would open the department of traditional dance if the number of applicants who want to learn the Korean traditional dance increase despite the decrease in the school age children. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether the traditional dance can become the academy of convergence, fusion or consilience with the academic trend of the time.

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