There are only two MSK hapkido schools under my instructor right now: the Cape Girardeau and Sikeston schools.
The Sikeston school is owned by the head hapkido instructor there.
The head taekwondo instructor has been forced into taking a break to rehabilitate a physical condition (worsened by a vehicle accident) that was not getting any better.
There were no MSK taekwondo instructors in the area both willing and able to fill the position. It is important to me that we keep that location operating and, without a taekwondo program, it would have closed.
I hope to remain unentangled in local TKD politics by asserting that I am still my hapkido instructor's student and that any directives can be forwarded to me via him.
National/international politics are not my concern: I will teach MSK taekwondo (which to me seems to be a very ITF'ish style of taekwondo which uses mostly WTF forms with a couple of ITF forms in the mix) as taught to me by my original TKD instructor, Master Steven Dunn.
It wasn't so much that I was tired of TKD so much as I have developed a preference for HKD.
For inspiration I need look no further than our school's founder, the late Lee H. Park who was a "hapkido man" who also taught taekwondo (and judo).
Thanks for the welcome back
