About: Chung Do Kwan   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : owl:Thing, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The term Blue Wave was meant to denote youthful spirit and vitality. Lee moved to Japan when he was 19 years old in 1926. After attending middle school and high school in Japan, he then entered the law school of Chuo University. He then enrolled at Japan's Karate headquarters, the Song Do Kwan (Shotokan). Lee received Karate instruction from Shotokan Karate's father, Sensei Gichin Funakoshi. There, he also studied Karate with Byung Jick Ro, who would go on to found Song Moo Kwan.

AttributesValues
rdfs:label
  • Chung Do Kwan
rdfs:comment
  • The term Blue Wave was meant to denote youthful spirit and vitality. Lee moved to Japan when he was 19 years old in 1926. After attending middle school and high school in Japan, he then entered the law school of Chuo University. He then enrolled at Japan's Karate headquarters, the Song Do Kwan (Shotokan). Lee received Karate instruction from Shotokan Karate's father, Sensei Gichin Funakoshi. There, he also studied Karate with Byung Jick Ro, who would go on to found Song Moo Kwan.
dcterms:subject
abstract
  • The term Blue Wave was meant to denote youthful spirit and vitality. Lee moved to Japan when he was 19 years old in 1926. After attending middle school and high school in Japan, he then entered the law school of Chuo University. He then enrolled at Japan's Karate headquarters, the Song Do Kwan (Shotokan). Lee received Karate instruction from Shotokan Karate's father, Sensei Gichin Funakoshi. There, he also studied Karate with Byung Jick Ro, who would go on to found Song Moo Kwan. Lee earned dan ranking in Shotokan karate. According to Grandmaster Yong Taek Chung (a student of Lee) "It is probable that he did practice in secret as a teenager [during the Japanese occupation of Korea] because he told this author that when he first started training he and his first teachers would not exchange names due to possible consequences if someone got caught." Because of his law background, Lee was appointed as a teacher at the Korean Police Academy and many of his early students were police. Chung Do Kwan was once called "The National Police Headquarters Dojang." Later, the President of Korea, Rhee Seung Man, offered Lee the position of Minister of the Interior. However, when Lee politely refused, President Rhee arrested Lee as well as one of his senior students, Duk Sung Son. After being released, Lee and his family emigrated back to Japan immediately prior to the beginning of the Korean War. Before leaving Korea, Lee appointed his senior student, Yoo Ung Jun to succeed him as the Chung Do Kwan Kwan lead. Yoo instead became a supporter of North Korea and eventually the position went to Duk Sung Son. Son was succeeded as President of the Chung Do Kwan by Uhm Woon Kyu in 1959. Uhm later went on to also serve as President of Kukkiwon (World Taekwondo Headquarters). The belt system of the Chung Do Kwan under Lee was as follows: White (8th-5th Guep), Red (4th-1st Guep)and Black (1st to 7th Dan). Testing occurred every six months and students would jump two guep levels per test (8th to 6th guep for example). The reason for this was that many Koreans at that time were poor and could not afford frequent testings.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software