29/07/2024
🥋Modern History of Taekwondo
In 1910 Japan invades Korea without resistance of the latter to meet the fabulous power of Nippon. The invaders prohibit the practice of any non-Japanese cultural and sporting manifestation and only allow Korean police to practice Karate (Japanese) as a martial art to help maintain order.
A Korean soldier named Choi Hong Hee was in Japan sentenced to death for rebellion against the invasion, when atomic bombs that fell on this country as World War II ended, saved his life and allowed him to return to Korea with honors.
General Choi
Thus, he tried to combine the best of different arts, even the Karate he practiced, coming ten years after the end of the war, in 1955, to create an art called TAEKWONDO. Tae= foot; Kwon= fist; Do= path, i.e. the path of the feet and fists. Turned into a general, his approach to North Korea was not well seen by the South Korean military, accusing him of being a communist and of trying to make a revolution in favor of the latter.
Turned into a general, his approach to North Korea was not well seen by the South Korean military, accusing him of being a communist and of trying to make a revolution in favor of the latter.
So it was that in his capacity as President of the Korean Taekwondo Association he founded the I.T.F. (International Taekwondo Federation) in 1996 and had to go to Canada to avoid being convicted for subversive.
Korean authorities claiming that this art was the property of an entire country and not of a single person or organization, created in 1970 the W.T.F. (World Taekwondo Federation or World Taekwondo Federation) based in Seoul.