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Chang Moo Kwan

A kwan that grew from a YMCA Kwon Bup club started by Yun Byung-in in 1946 and was named by his senior student Lee Nam Suk.

The Chang Moo Kwan traces its origin to a Kwon Bup club at the YMCA started by Yun Byung-in in 1946.[1][3] A 2008 Korean conference paper lists the 창무관 (Chang Moo Kwan) under Yun Byung-in in Seoul in 1946, as a YMCA Kwon Bup section later renamed Chang Moo Kwan.[5]

Name and succession #

Yun disappeared, and his top student Lee Nam Suk carried on his teaching.[1] After the Korean War, Lee and Kim Soon Bae reopened the club under the name Chang Moo Kwan, which the Song Moo Kwan's records date to 1954.[3][4] The name is also spelled Chang Mu Kwan.

Relationship to the Ji Do Kwan #

Yun was a close associate of Chun Sang-sup, and the Chang Moo Kwan is described as having grown out of Yun's YMCA club, with Lee Nam Suk among the senior students involved. See Ji Do Kwan for the related lineage.[2]

Yun trained under Kanken Toyama in Shudokan karate and was said to have studied ch'uan-fa in Manchuria.[2] Accounts differ on what happened to him after the Korean War; see his page.

Lineage links

Founders
Yun Byung-in
Annexes
Kang Duk Won

See the full lineage chart

See also

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, "Kwan (martial arts)" en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Jidokwan" en.wikipedia.org
  3. Kang Won-sik and Lee Kyong-myong, A Modern History of Taekwondo (excerpt) kidokwan.org
  4. Song Moo Kwan, "The original founding Kwans" songmookwan.com
  5. 안정덕, 송강영, "한국 전통무예로서 태권도의 문화적 정체성 탐색", 2008 한국콘텐츠학회 춘계종합학술대회 koreascience.kr

Online sources last checked 7 November 2026.