The purpose of this study is to establish basic resources for succession of traditional dance in the two countries of Far East area through comparison consideration of traditional dance in Shandong Province, China and Gyeonggi-do, Korea. Literature research was focused on research method. While Chinese national dance was developed foreign 56 areas regional characteristic, Korean traditional dance was created through the people’s community life. Yangge, the representative dance of Shandong province, is the dance of Han races minority race of China. It represents the agrarian society and categorized into ‘Gyoju Yangge’, ‘Goja Yangge’ and ‘Haeyang Yangge’. Each Yang has similar characteristics through exchange of local cultures, but they have distinctive features according to works, composition, roles, contents and expression. Towel dance of Gyeonggi-do, the Korean traditional dance, includes ‘Yi dongon rye salpurichum’ and ‘Heungaesugeonchum of Anseonghyangdangmu’. The former was created by a professional artist and designated as intangible cultural asset No.8. The latter is considered as the traditional dance based on cloth making life and popular belief. Regarding the characteristics of the two dances’ costumes, Yangge’s costumes are composed of relatively vivid colors, but the costumes of Towel Dance are mostly white. While Angge’s dance tools are fan, drum, pole and san in addition to square towel. Gyeoggin-do Sugeon-drum has a long white towel and a red towel. The musical characteristics of both dances are slow and fast beat of traditional orchestra musical instrument and percussion. Sometimes, Yangge contains songs. The dance movements of Yangge were bending, hunching, twisting, stretching, stamping and shaking, and those of Sugeon-chun are rough and folk with moderate movement and the movements symbolizing labor and emotions of life, which express sadness and happiness through dance. In summary, the traditional dances of China and Korea are mainly tool dances, and composed of symbolic movements that reflect the life according to orchestra music of various structures. In the future, systemic follow-up study should be profoundly performed through in-site survey and observation for vitalization of both countries’ traditional dance study.