| Karate died for Tae Kwon Do. Let me relate an | | | | selling? It was something called Tae Kwon Do. |
| anecdote, then offer my sacred and inviolable opinion. | | | | General Choi Hong Hai introduced Tae Kwon Do to |
| My instructor and one of his top students were | | | | the masses, under the guise that Korea needed its |
| sitting in the office one day, and two Korean fellows | | | | own national art. |
| walked in. "You join new organization, we give you | | | | Nationalism. Pah. |
| new forms, promote all black belts one grade." | | | | Would you study an art created by Barack Obama? |
| My instructor shook his head, and things actually | | | | Shut up and stop laughing. It was a fair question. Sort |
| looked a little tense, and then one of the Koreans | | | | of. |
| nudged the other one and looked at the writing on | | | | But the point is this, the good general had his |
| the wall. | | | | reasons, he needed people to show more nationalistic |
| Well, actually it was the printing on a business card. | | | | fervor, and he used karate, for such was, and to a |
| "Kang Duk Won," he said. | | | | great extent is, the Kang Duk Won. |
| The two bowed and left. True story. | | | | That's right, used. He didn't pursue an art, he used |
| The organization, actually system, that they were | | | | one for political purposes. Is tae kwon do terrible? |