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In this study, a twelve-week Korean traditional dance program was conducted for elderly women healthy and with diabetes or hypertension, and the effects of the program on their body composition, circulatory system and blood components were compared. The effects of the Korean traditional dance program are as follows: As for effects on body composition, body weight was found to show significant difference in them (p<.05), but there was no significant difference in body fat percentage, waist-hip ratio (WHR), body mass index (BMI) and basal metabolic rate (BMR) (p>.05). In the case of changes on circulatory system, significant difference was found in the maximum blood pressure and the minimum blood pressure of the hypertension group (p<.05) but was not found in the lung capacity between the experiment and control groups (p>.05). As changes in blood components, significant difference was found with time in glucose of the control and hypertension groups (p<.05) and was found also in TC and HDL-C of the diabetes group (p<.05). The twelve-week experiment helped to conclude that a Korean traditional dance program has positive effects to some extent on the health of elderly women. Therefore, it is hoped that beneficial effects of Korean traditional dance will be introduced to more people through more systematic experiments and verification.