Gwai Lo Dan
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Is "yap" in the term for yell related to the term for side kick - yap chugi?
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I have a purely academic question, Kang Tsai. I don't study any KMA, but I've been following this thread because I'm a language nerd at heart. I see that the Korean characters you provide here appear to be more segmented (visible separate parts) than Japanese kanji. Does each character have a meaning (like Japanese kanji), or are you using the equivalent of hiragana (syllabary for Japanese)? Does Korean writing have both types of writing, as Japanese does?
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KangTsai
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There is both. Chinese characters are learned and noted next to their Korean and Sino-Korean words, like ė¶ ķ ē«, respectively.
The Sino-Korean, identical to kan'on in Japanese, is usually used in compound words, like Latin or Greek in English.
Note that Korean, grammatically, is identical to Japanese.
TrueJim
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Thanks, that's a lot of information in just 4 sentences!
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Thanks for that - that's a pretty easy way to learn the sounds.
andyjeffries
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Not ģ?
A lot of people hear it that way, which leads some people to refer to yelling for energy as "keying up".
Metal
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Those can easily be answered without asking someone who speaks Korean.
Forms:
ķ hyeong (in Kukkiwon taekwondo everybody would use ķģ poomsae)
Reverse punch:
ė°ė ģ§ė„“źø° bandae jirugi (note that in Kukkiwon taekwondo this is on the side of the front leg while it's on the side of the rear leg in ITF or 'traditional' Taekwondo.
Head instructor
ź“ģ„ kwanjang (owner/head of the school)
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Poomsae, Tul, or Hyung.
Kwanjang is often used for the head of a school these days, but it was originally limited to the head of the system. Which is how we still use it.
Our chief instructor uses the title Sabum.
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ķ teul is a term created by General Choi when he reformed and revised his 'Taekwondo-Do'.
Maybe Kang Tsai can let us know if ķ hyeong is a Sino-Korean word. That may be a reason for Kukkiwon and KTA to come up with ķģø poomse (hanja: åå¢) and in 1987 with the pure Korean word ķģ poomsae.
Maybe Kang Tsai can tell us something about that word ķģ poomae, based on this article:
KYL English Poomse change 1987
The majority of Taekwondoin worldwide would use ķģ poomsae for forms, just like most Americans would say Scotch for clear tape and Xerox machine for a copying machine. Nobody in the ROK would refer to forms as ķ teul - that's why I didn't mention it.
ź“ kwan means hall/gym and kwanjang is indeed the head of a school. While the heads of the original schools of Taekwondo indeed became heads of certain branches of Taekwondo (or the respective style they were teaching back then) when their kwans began to spread and have many other schools besides the main dojang, that doesn't mean that the term kwanjang means "head of a system".
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