I wouldn't have thought it possible. Read the following account of the history and development of TKD at this dojang website, for an account that pays attention to the last decade and a half of careful historical scholarship and new discoveries about the where, when and whys of TKD's emergence, independent of the fabricated history devised by the ROK and its TKD institutional puppets (largely under the heavy hand of the Park regime's propaganda works and, latterly, the entrepreneurship of the disgraced Um Yong Kim, booted out of his position as head of the WTF on charges of embezzlement and bribery and sentenced to a prison term on multiple corruption counts (as reported here). This is the guy who relentlessly attempted to purge TKD of its combat content and convert it into a purely sport/spectacle activity).
The author, Dr. Robert Dohrenwend, is on the editorial board of Journal of Asian Martial Arts and one of the leading academic scholars of the Korean martial arts. There is a huge documentary base, rooted in primary sources, for Dohrenwend's claims here. Since he wrote his article, some powerful new support has emerged on the history of TKD (by Eric Madis, in Martial Arts in the Modern World), and the marginal historical (as vs. ideological) role of taekyon (by Michael Pederson, in the Encyclopædia of Martial Arts of the World). But this very well written, well researched article already stands on an extremely impressive documentary foundation...
The author, Dr. Robert Dohrenwend, is on the editorial board of Journal of Asian Martial Arts and one of the leading academic scholars of the Korean martial arts. There is a huge documentary base, rooted in primary sources, for Dohrenwend's claims here. Since he wrote his article, some powerful new support has emerged on the history of TKD (by Eric Madis, in Martial Arts in the Modern World), and the marginal historical (as vs. ideological) role of taekyon (by Michael Pederson, in the Encyclopædia of Martial Arts of the World). But this very well written, well researched article already stands on an extremely impressive documentary foundation...