Tang Soo Do Chung Do Kwan Creation, History and Evolution (English Edition)

Tang Soo Do Chung Do Kwan describes the creation, history and evolution of the first Korean Kwan by the founder Grandmaster, Won Kuk Lee who was the first Korean martial arts Master to use Tang Soo Do to describe the Japanese style of Korean Karate he taught. It was Korea's first Post World War II martial art that would get Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee arrested, imprisoned and put on trial as a Japanese sympathizer because he was allowed to teach Tang Soo Do with the Japanese still incontrol of Korea and his Tang Soo Do was so successful and a threat to the new Korean independent government that his reputation had to be tarnished. The author describes Chung Do Kwan's travels through the new post world War II Korean government's desire to close the Chung Do Kwan Tang Soo Do and the forces that wanted it changed to become Chung Do Kwan Tae Kwon Do. The auther includes Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee's relationship with the Japanese occupying forces in Korea that allowed him to teach Tang Soo Do just before the Japanese were forced to leave Korea by the U.S. Military and the U.S. military General that invited Grandmaster Won Kuk Lee to immigrate to the United States and avoid his enemies in the new, young independent Korean government that was searching to destroy anyone they could call a Japanese sympathizer. The author describes the entire evolution of the Chung Do Kwan Tang Soo Do as a political entity and its contribution to the development of Chung Do Kwan's Tae Kwon Do and Taekwondo's journey to the 1988 Olympics. This book is for the highly experienced and serious Korean martial arts enthusiast and not recommended for inexperienced martial art genre reader.