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The Hwarang system as adolescents’ education in Shila composed of Hwaju(a national manager) and an organization of Kuksun-Hwarang, Sungrye-Nangdo, general Nangdo. And its members belonged to a Munho, who signed at the Hwangkwon(attendance book). They were taught physical training, entertainment, ethics, literature, song, and so on. This Hwarang system played a great role in training national human resources, as mentioned in Hwarangsegi by Kim Dae-Mun. Also, it is true that Shila people served highly the members of Hwarang, as mentioned in Shilagukgi by Yeong Ho-Jing(a scholar of Tang). On the other hand, the Hwarang system played an important role in connecting the tradition and the present of Shila at that time. That is to say, their activities had a function of national unity and communication. The education based on the Hwarang system was a play education such as music and travel, a cross-country trip on foot, a camping in a mountain and a field, a practice in martial arts for the war. Therefore, it is possible to say that in the Hwarang system, there were a lot of physical activities corresponding to today’s physical educations. And it is more alike Wandervogel in Germany. It is a voluntary movement of adolescents in which adolescents learned joy and anger together with sorrow and pleasure of life, wandering like a migratory bird. It is important to connect the traditional educational system into the educational circumstances today, adjusting to our educational realities, not discarding it just because it is old. The Hwarang system, as an educational system by which the adolescents have a subjectivity, a romance, and strong will, is full of suggestions. And it has a significance for today’s physical education and for adolescents who are fatigued with the education system that focuses only on college entrance exams and who suffer from loss of self-identity by depending totally on their parents. The fellowship, voluntary learning, camping life, a cross-country trip on foot of the members of the Hwarang system are a form of education that urgently needed today.