Emotional Expression of Korean Dance Assisted by a Virtual Environment System

Korean dance, which is one of the traditional Korean performing arts, has been a common way of expressing Korean peculiar emotion including "han", "heung", and "mut". This emotional presentation discriminates Korean dance from Western dance. In this paper, we try to understand what "han" is and assist the emotional expression of a representative Korean dance "salpuri" with empathy for "han" using a virtual environment system. Qualitative and quantitative analysis results demonstrate that "han" is related to being more dynamic and expressive and better empathy and expression of a dancer can be expected by using the virtual environment system.