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The teams and the chiefs of
organizations who have participated in the proud 1st International Horseback
Archery Competition in that the peoples of the world gathered to be unified to
one in Sokcho that consists of mountains, a lake and is adjacent to the sea
with one of the longest history in the world participated with the messages
containing the peace of the human in the horseback archery competition in that
tradition and elegance harmonized together and established a foundation to
provide the opportunity to develop a ground in that more world's peoples can
participate to exhibit the elegance of tradition to the full and extend the
skill and the horseback archery competition has been reborn as a culture that
would not be faded under the shadow of each country's old tradition and became
a ground opening a new chapter of a proud human culture that is succeeded to
the present times instead of becoming a history to be forgotten. The players and
their families that visited Korea from distant countries abroad, with their
presence, revive the horse riding culture of each country, restore the horse
riding culture in 21st century and wrote a record of history containing the
spirit of ancestors on this earth.
The culture is succeeded one by one
by the efforts that create life from the huge flow of the context connected
from the past to the present and then to the future and the liveliness will
grandly flow as the origin of the human.
The world of now can be said to be a time of competition based on
culture. If there is no mediator of
culture with live history and root in the field of culture and festival based
on the culture of a country, that country should have no standpoint anywhere as
if the power source is missing. With the 1st International Horse back Archery
Competition, we could find that the traditional culture of archery and
horseback archery of each country have not been discontinued but are being
succeeded and conveyed being remembered as a culture of the human.
Now, the horseback archery
competition has been reborn as a field in that everybody from a child to an
adult can participate and be together instead of the space limited to the
occupation of professional performers and the root was the proud field that we
are maintaining as the ancestors of the human in the past did.
Beginning with the 1st International
Horseback Archery Competition, it has become the time to open friendly
competition through the festival that is open for participation of anyone of
the world peoples and for which the traditions and horse riding cultures of all
of each country of the world will gather in one ground. Like our ancestors were
so 2,000years ago, we are about to rewrite the history to contain our minds, bodies
and spirits on the very today at this very position. The horseback archery
competition is the one that contains the history and root of our race and will
become a history that will be co-owned by our youths and write a new chapter of
proud racial culture.
November 1, 2005
Kim, Yeong-Seop,
The acting chairman of world
horseback archery federation
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