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This study aims to provide a framework for developing education programs, and related policies, based on traditional play in Korea by analyzing its role in the current physical education curriculum of Korean elementary schools. A content analysis of the original and revised elementary school-level physical education curricula resulted in the following observations about how traditional play is taught in the health education, sports education, and recreational education of elementary school physical education. First, health education in elementary schools consists largely of gymnastic exercise and fitness training, with traditional play included in the latter category. Second, in the realm of sports education, traditional play was utilized in all of the categories, including gymnastics with apparatus, track and field, ball games, water sports, traditional sports, and dance, with the exception of winter sports. Third, in recreational education, traditional play was a part of the traditional culture category rather than the category of continuing recreational activities. Based on the above results, it is argued that systematic data collection on the utilization of traditional play in all aspects of the elementary school-level physical education curriculum, including health education, sports education, and recreational education, is a necessary step for the further development and application of traditional play-based education programs.