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Jidokwan is one of the original nine schools of the modern Korean martial arts that became Taekwondo and was founded in what is now South Korea at the end of World War II. Its name translates as "School of Wisdom". The Jidokwan in Korea still exists today. It functions as a social fraternal order.
Song Moo Kwan, also named "Song Moo Kwan Kong Soo Do ", is one of the Five original kwans (martial art schools) of taekwondo in Korea. [3] Its founder, from 1944, Supreme Grandmaster Byung Jik Ro (1919–2015), [5] [6] [3] was one of the highest ranking taekwondo practitioners in the world, and is considered the "Founder of Modern Taekwondo". [7]
History of Moo Duk Kwan By Hwang Kee ISBN 0-9631358-7-2; A Modern History of Taekwondo 1999 (Korean) Kyong Myung Lee and Kang Won Sik ISBN 89-358-0124-0; Excerpts from "A Modern History of Taekwondo" Global Taekwondo 2003 (English) Kyo Yoon Lee ISBN 89-952721-4-7; A Guide to Taekwondo 1996 (English) Kyo Yoon Lee ISBN 89-7500-064-8
Moo Duk Kwan Taekwondo is a modern Korean martial art formed in April 1965 by Kim Young-taek, Hong Chong-soo, and Lee Kang-ik, after a significant group of former students of Hwang Kee chose to leave the original Moo Duk Kwan organization in order to join the Taekwondo unification movement.
The modern Korean martial arts developed in the early 20th century, under influence of the Japanese martial arts of the period. Thus, hapkido originates from Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu during the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–1945). [4]
A Modern History of Taekwondo 1999 (Korean) Kyong Myung Lee and Kang Won Sik ISBN 89-358-0124-0; Global Taekwondo 2003 (English) Kyo Yoon Lee ISBN 89-952721-4-7; A Guide to Taekwondo 1996 (English) Kyo Yoon Lee ISBN 89-7500-064-8; Kukkiwon 25th Anniversary Text 1997 (Korean) Un Yong Kim; Kim, Soo and Robert McLain. “Yoon Byung-in Story.” 2006.
These two students of YMCA Kwon Bop Bu founder Byung In-Yoon were Hong Jong-Pyo and Chul Hee Park. Today, Kang Duk Won still exists in Korea and is officially known as Taekwondo Kang Duk Won, which is a social friendship club that endorses the Kukkiwon system and supports the World Taekwondo Federation. Kang Duk Won also has a school in the ...