His reputation is that of writer, poet, traveller and collector of ethnographic material.
In the years 1927–1932 he studied medicine and ethnography at Stefan Batory University in Vilnius.
A fellow student at the time was the writer Czeslaw Milosz who commented about Korabiewicz's great height that it earned him the sobriquet, Kilometre.
After the outbreak of World War II he was interned in Stockholm with the crew of the Dar Pomorza.
He moved to São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro where he organized help for former Polish prisoners of war.
He worked as a deputy curator of the "King George V Memorial Museum", conducting research into folklore of the British territories in Africa and also in Mozambique.
In 1954, after sending a number of exhibition pieces to the Polish Museum of Folk Culture in Młociny, he was expelled from Tanganyika and stayed in London.