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Odo Kwan Tang Soo Do Korea's Karate describes the creation, history and evolution of the Korean Kwan by the founder, Grandmaster, Choi, Hong Hi who was ordered by the Korean government to unite the many privately owned martial arts Kwans after world War II so that Korea would have an Olympic martial arts sport. The author describes the Japanese style of Korean Karate Major General Choi taught as a Korean martial art. The Odo Kwan one of Korea's post World War II martial art that would have Major General Choi lose his Ambassadorship position with the Korean government, who created the first international Taekwondo organization required so that Taekwondo could become an Olympic sport. the author described how Brigadier General Choi would and become a threat to the Korean independent government that wanted to gain control of his international organization that would allow Taekwondo to become an Olympic sport. The author describes Odo Kwan's travels through the post World War II Korean government's desire to convert Korea's version of japanese karate Do called Tang Soo Do to a uniquely Korean martial art called Taekwondo and receive the Korean governments support and funding to get Teakwondo into the Olympics. The author includes Grandmaster Choi, Hong Hi's raising in japan that would later be used by government officials to get him fired from his Ambassadorship to Malaysia and replace him with other government officials who would allow full control of the international acceptance of Taekwondo that would allow Taekwondo into the Olympics. Realizing he had enemies in the Korean government after decades of working to unite the Korean martial arts community and create the first international Taekwondo organization and then be forced to immigrate to Canada and avoid his enemies in the first independent Korean government since 1870 that was searching to destroy anyone they could call a Japanese sympathizer. The author describes the entire evolution of the Odo Kwan Tang Soo Do as a political entity and its contribution to the development of Odo Kwan's creation of Taekwon do from Tang Soo Do and the international telemetry federation (ITF) and creation of Korea's World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) and WTF's Taekwondo's journey from the dirt floors of the first Korean martial arts Kwans after World war II to the beautiful Korean Kukkiwon and Taekwondo's acceptance into the 1988 Olympics. This book is for the more experienced martial arts reader and serious Korean martial arts enthusiast and not recommended for inexperienced martial art genre readers who may have inability to understand the importance of the successes a third world country that Korea was after world War II and the Korean war and its unification of the independent Korean martial arts community to overcome to get Taekwondo into the Olympics.

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