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Foundation of Korean Karate

In Black Belts Mags June edition, is an article named Foundation of Korean Karate, it is three parts I believe. HAs anyone read this yet?

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Re: Foundation of Korean Karate

Yes...I have the article. I found it to be just more of the same rhetoric of nationalistic propoganda. The article actually tries again to tie in the two statues outside the temple as evidence of the ancient base of Korean Martial Arts. But the facts are, these are common figures to many temples in China, originally sculpted to be holding spears in their hands (missing from the Korean copies) and are not indicative of Korean martial arts....or even Chinese martial arts for that matter...but simply guardian figures denoting the temples protection by certain deities.

Its sad that we are must still struggle to educate the masses while there are so many out there still willing to mislead them with erroneous information and poor science.

JH