The Investigation of Quick Reaction Application Levels in Protection Security of Martial Arts and SPORTS in the Republic of KOREA

Abstract

Currently, national protection security in the Republic of Korea has developed greatly worldwide, and recently has shown off advanced security universally in grand international events held in Korea such as the Asia-Europe Meeting(ASEM), Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation(APEC), G20 and Nuclear Security Summit, and through this, with security agencies from over the world and application of Korean martial arts and sports security skills, the intercourse is being widely activated. Accordingly, Korean Protection Security protects protectees from various dangerous elements, and the importance of security is becoming bigger as the last resort of being responsible for the safety of protectees in dead zones of terror and crime. To improve the guards’ ability to react, protection training is essential. However the exact academic concept of Protection Security of Martial Arts and Sports is not established in Korea at the moment, and the bodyguards are being trained in Judo, Taekwondo, Kendo, and Aikido. Therefore, in order to improve the abilities into a high level of use in the field, propagation of protection security of martial arts is necessary by establishing officialized concepts by harmonizing existing scientific and technical movements of martial arts. Research showed the usage of martial arts in a police officer in performing his job in the field of security that Aikido was the highest for 52 people(36.8%), followed by Judo, 47(33.3%), Taekwondo 36(25.5%), and Kendo 6(4.2%). Also, in the case of Judo, there were many techniques in defending short distance dangers, therefore the use of it was the highest, Taekwondo used agile movements which made quick defense or reaction from danger possible, Kendo was not so useful in short distance defense, but there were many appropriate techniques in a long range defense and defending a weapon holder. Aikido was effective in defending and coping with danger by using various self-defense martial arts. The purpose of this study is to examine the high use of martial arts in the field of security for police officers and to provide for the identity and generalization of security protection of martial arts by using the strengths of martial arts.