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And we're all sorry for that one.Gangnam Style
And we're all sorry for that one.Gangnam Style
I think it's easy to forget nowadays that up until 1988 South Korea was a dictatorship. It wasn't until 1988 that South Korea became the modern democracy that we all know and love today, home of K-Pop, K-Tigers and Gangnam Style.
Personally, I think Choi was stuck between a rock and a hard place in terms of trying to promote taekwondo: he had communism in the north, and a dictatorship in the south...and in that mess he had to find funding and political support for his life's passion: promoting a style of martial art that would definitely NOT be confused with Japanese martial arts.
So here's another way one could look at it...
If Choi had been motivated only by his own self-interest, he would have taken a much different path in life: he was already a general, and an ambassador...he could have played it safe, compromised more often, stayed on the good side of his government, and his career could have gone on indefinitely.
Instead, he kept poking his fingers in everybody's eyes because dammit he wanted his style of taekwondo to be globally loved! Even if it meant he had to be kicked out of his cushy government positions, split away from all his colleagues and friends, and even leave his homeland entirely.
To me, that sounds like a man obsessed with a mission, not a man obsessed with himself. A man obsessed with himself would have taken the easy route. But that's just my opinion.
In any case, one could attribute Choi's change-of-heart about Kukkiwon/WTF-style taekwondo to it success on the world stage...or just as legitimately you could attribute it to the fact that the dictatorship he had hated to much had finally fallen and was no longer its primary advocate. I'm inclined to think it may have been more the latter than the former.
But what do I know, I'm no expert.
He liked the publicity Taekwondo recieved as an olympic sport,
If you want people to listen you have to say things worth listening to.Yet nobody listens...
I don't know whether he did or not, I don't know enough for an opinion on this but if he did what's wrong with that? Having your sport included as an Olympic sport is quite an achievement and rightly anyone would be pleased. Don't turn it into an accusation.
Yet nobody listens...
I guess you didn't listen to the clip. Btw, he also bashed your dear Karate, claiming that TKD was an improvement on Karate, as if this was a fact by the time his encyclopedia was written. Silly beyond belief.
Ohdearhowsadnevermind.
So? he's entitled to his opinion as much as any of us, he may have genuinely believed it and why shouldn't he? Everyone should be proud of something they either created or helped create. Did you think he would say 'well actually TKD is rubbish and karate so much better'? Did you think I would cry? Silly boy.
So don't tell me I can't say TKD has better spinning back kicks and get all worked up and cry: "Style basher!". General Chois opinions of WTF makes me look soft. He also flattly stated that Karate has been surpassed by TKD. That's a blow on Karate too. I find it all hilarious.
So don't tell me I can't say TKD has better spinning back kicks and get all worked up and cry: "Style basher!". General Chois opinions of WTF makes me look soft. He also flattly stated that Karate has been surpassed by TKD. That's a blow on Karate too. I find it all hilarious.
'Blow on karate' now that is funny, I think you mean blow for karate, only it's not is it cos no one cares...but you![]()
To me General Chois is a historical figure, what he said has to be taken in context.
There is a blow on something - Karate
And what I say has to be taken into the context of highest IQ in the room.
Lol, now that's chutzpah, trying to tell a native English speaker how to speak English!
And that sentence makes no sense whatsoever, what are you trying to actually say?
You have to view my comments in the context of a highly gifted individual, who can put two and two together. This is complete nonsense from General Choi, later asserting"it's all TKD" when WTF was accepted into the olympics. You heard the man.
You have to view my comments in the context of a highly gifted individual, who can put two and two together. This is complete nonsense from General Choi, later asserting"it's all TKD" when WTF was accepted into the olympics. You heard the man.
You have to view my comments in the context of a highly gifted individual, who can put two and two together. This is complete nonsense from General Choi, later asserting"it's all TKD" when WTF was accepted into the olympics. You heard the man.
I have deja vu here. Haven't we done the deluded philosophy undergraduate thing before?
You are in a room all by yourself then.And what I say has to be taken into the context of highest IQ in the room.