Hwang Ki

Korean spelling
Hangeul	황기
Hanja	黄琦
Revised Romanization	Hwang Gi
McCune- Reischauer	Hwang Ki
See also : Korean name

Hwang Ki , also known as Hwang Kee , (born November 9, 1914 in Jangdan , Gyeonggi-do , Korea ; † July 14, 2002 ) is the founder of Tang Soo Do , a martial art from Korea.

He was born in Korea under the Japanese occupation and attended a military school. Before he founded a martial arts school called Moo Duk Kwan ( hanja 武德 館 ) in Seoul in 1945 , where he taught his martial art Tang Soo Do ( 唐 手 道 ), he made many trips, including in 1936 to Manchuria and met various experts from Japanese karate and quanfa . He also learned Taekyon , Kwonbob and Soo Bahk Do . In 1953 he founded a Tang Soo Do organization. In 1960 he founded the Society for Soo Bahk Do and also called his martial art that.

Tang Soo Do (after Pinyin Tangshoudao¹) is a combination of Quanfa, Karate and various martial arts from Korea. Hwang Kee founded it as a counterpart to Taekwondo. Tang ( 唐 ) is derived from the Tang Dynasty in China, Soo ( 手 ) is the hand and Do ( 道 ) is the way.

The Chinese influence shows itself here through the special focus on inner skills, which have more to do with mental abilities than with fighting techniques.

So it is about invincibility in the mind in addition to the powerful exercise of physical techniques. This is the Chinese influence alongside the Japanese.

See also the main page Taekwondo for an extensive presentation of his life.

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literature

• Werner Lind (2001): The dictionary of the martial arts . Sportverlag Berlin, ISBN 3328008381 , pp. 226 + 595

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Hwang is the family name here, Ki is the first name.