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Tang Soo Do Chung Do Kwan is for the young student as well as the Master Instructor that wants an in-depth understanding of the Tang Soo Do Chung Do Kwan. The author provides the story behind Chung Do Kwan's creation, evolution and history of the first Korean Kwan created at the end of the Colonial Japanese occupation of Korea by Grandmaster Won kuk Lee when World War II was coming to an end as U.S. military was removing the colonial Japanese from Korea. Grandmaster, Won Kuk Lee was the first allowed to open a Kwan and the first to use the name Tang Soo Do for Korea's Post World War II martial art. The author includes the Chung Do Kwan's travels through the new, independent post war Korean government since the 1870's to become Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do and Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee's relationship with the Japanese occupying force that allowed Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee to teach Tang Soo Do before the Japanese were forced to leave Korea and his success to open the Chung Do Kwan that caused Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee to be arrested and jailed and charged as Japanese sympathizers, forcing him to immigrate to the United States by invitation by U.S. Army Brigadier General William Westmorland. The author includes the complete story from Grandmaster Lee's training in Karate in Japan while attending college to his relationship with the Korean military that helped him make the Chung Do Kwan the most influential and respected Kwan for many decades, separating it from the other Tang Soo Do Kwans whose members were labeled criminals, members of anti-government rebels and members of organized crime used to diffuse the other Kwans influence in winning government sponsorship for getting Tang Soo Do into the 1988 Olympics as Taekwondo. The author includes the many classical Tang Soo Do Hyungs including his famous Hyung to Kata conversion matrix and the description of each of Tang Soo Do Chung Do Kwan's Hyungs.

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