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Founder | Sang Sup Chun (Yun Moo Kwan founder) Dr. Yun Kwae-byung (first headmaster of Jidokwan) |
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Current head | Sung Wan Lee |
Arts taught | Taekwondo (c.1955-1961 onwards, Kukkiwon system adopted in 1973) |
Ancestor arts | Gwonbeop, Kong Soo Do[1] |
Official website | Taekwondo Jidokwan |
Jidokwan | |
Hangul | 지도관 |
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Hanja | 智道館 |
Revised Romanization | Ji Do Gwan |
McCune–Reischauer | Chi Do Kwan |
Jidokwan is one of the original nine schools of the modern Korean martial arts that became Taekwondo and was founded in what is now South Korea at the end of World War II. Its name translates as "School of Wisdom". The Jidokwan in Korea still exists today. It functions as a social fraternal order. Jidokwan supports and endorses the Kukkiwon method of Taekwondo, and supports World Taekwondo (formerly the World Taekwondo Federation)[citation needed].