So.... no actual evidence, I take it?Then we will have to agree to disagree.
Don't feel bad. Nobody else has ever found any, either.
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So.... no actual evidence, I take it?Then we will have to agree to disagree.
I gave the evidence, but you refuse to accept it. Again, we will have to agree to disagree.So.... no actual evidence, I take it?
Don't feel bad. Nobody else has ever found any, either.
No, you didn't. Unsupported statements are not evidence. They're simply opinions. Opinions which people who where there at the time disagree with.I gave the evidence, but you refuse to accept it. Again, we will have to agree to disagree.
If you say so. Go ahead, get the last word in.No, you didn't. Unsupported statements are not evidence. They're simply opinions. Opinions which people who where there at the time disagree with.
I agree it appears there was no 'organized' system since there wasn't much of an organized Korean military at the time of the occupation. It was scattered when the occupation began, but it is reasonable to assume some of the combat skill teachers survived. It has always been explained to me that there were skills/systems known and used which had been handed down through family and organized society such as the local police and militia. It is reasonable assume some of these purely Korean derived skills remained and were implemented as TKD solidified after the occupation.There was no difference between the (mostly) Japanese schools that the founders trained in and their initial teachings in Korea. Even the name they applied - Tong Soo Do - is nothing other than the Korean pronunciation of the Kanji characters for... Karate.
It's not a good thing, but the reality is that there are no surviving indigenous Korean martial art system.
I subscribe to the theory that like invention of the wheel or discovery of fire no one country or person can lay claim to having invented or discovered MA skills. They are similarly most likely the product of simultaneous but unconnected discoveries and developments. Toward that end it is virtually impossible to determine if any skill was Korean derived.. It is reasonable assume some of these purely Korean derived skills remained and were implemented as TKD solidified