Korean Martial Arts

An 18-minute short film offering a history of Korean martial arts, with a segment on the country’s defense against foreign invaders (Chinese and Japanese) and a segment on Korean fencing, as well as a lengthy one on hand-to-hand combat and different principles and techniques employed. There’s a segment on martial arts as practiced by Buddhist monks since the 16th century, as well as techniques practiced by “men of letters.“ I believe this was made in the 1980s, although it might have been earlier. Narrated