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msmitht 
2. There were 5 kwans and they all practiced a mix of karate, kung fu and diato ryu jiujitsu(or judo). Due to anti japanese/chinese mindset this has been left out of many textbooks.
This is an interesting comment. Which of the Kwans practiced Daito Ryu?
Puunui will help us with this & this is addressed in the Modern History.
The Jidokwan opened after the liberation in a Judo school that operated during the occupation. Also 1 of the 7 Koreans that went abroad & brought back martial arts to Korea, also studied Judo (Yoon or Chun, I always mix them up). One was close with another & they most likely shared judo with the other.
There were more than five Kwans involved in the Taekwon-Do unification movement.
Yes there were, but there were only 5 original kwans (civilian) & 6 early kwans, with the Oh Do kwan being the 6th, as Gen Choi was 1 of the 7 that went abroad & was teaching TangSuDo to his troops since 1946. (Lt Nam (retired-Colonel) started teaching in the army in 1947. So the 6 early kwans trace their roots to these 7 learning abroad & 1944-47 teaching in Korea. I think 9 kwans signed the unification agreement in August of 1978, with a 10th kwan added as an administrative kwan. There is no way to come up with a real hard number of ow many kwans unified Kukki TKD, unless you 1st set up criteria as to what comprises a kwan & not a sub-kwan or off shoot kwan. Some if not many would say that the Oh Do kwan was a sub-kwan or off shoot of the Chung Do kwan. They can make a strong argument for that case, depending on the criteria that sets the ground work. I disagree with that, but do acknowledge that it was not an original kwan & fits better in the term early kwan. Hence the equal seat at the KASA when the KTA was 1st formed with the 5 other kwans
I do know many Koreans still have an anti-Japanese attitude due to the Japanese occupation of Korea but am not familiar with a general anti-Chinese attitude. In fact, the name Tang Soo Do was used by people because it had a Chinese connotation instead of the Japanese connotation that Kong Soo Do had.
OK the Chinese sentiment is no where near the level of the hated Japanese & it comes in part from a different reason(s). Parts of China were occupied by the Japanese before & during the 2nd World War. Both Korea & China had a common enemy, Japan. Half of Korea was aligned with communist "Red China" post WWII. In fact, north Korea fought on the side of Red China against the Chinese Nationalists. If not, they would have probably attacked south Korea sooner, as a lot of fighting took place before the actual invasion of south Korea by the north on June 25, 1950. I think it has been documented by Dr. Cummings that the south actually killed more north Koreans prior to the official start of the Korean Civil War, as much fighting went back & forth, but it was not a full scale war, just deadly skirmishes. Additionally when Gen MacArthur ordered the Incheon Landing, the tide of the war was turned in favor of the US led UN coalition. Gen MacArthur brilliantly cut off & penned in the communist north Koreans & was now making the push north with no one to fight against. They would have unified Korea right then & there. However Red China entered the war, surrounded US Marines & Army soldiers, almost destroying them totally, until Gen Smith ordering to turn & fight there way to the harbor south. The war became a stalemate, with a cease fire being signed on July 27, 1953. No treaty was ever signed.
So naturally those in the south hate the communist Chinese. By even those in the north resent the big brother of Asia that China enjoys. Koreans are a proud people. There is a scholar from Princeton whose specialty is the relationship between north Korea & China. He has dug through countless papers released from the former USSR that sheds light on this relationship. He cautions that today's leaders be careful in their estimations of how much China can influence or control north Korea. I for one think he caution is worth heeding, especially given the current deadly happenings in Korea. His work has impressed me & introduced me to a concept that I was not aware of. North Korea wants a relationship with the US, more than they want to rely on China
