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Ji Do Kwan

A kwan that began as a Kong Soo Do club at the Chosun Yun Moo Kwan in 1946 and was restarted as Ji Do Kwan after the Korean War.

The Ji Do Kwan began as a Kong Soo Do club founded by Chun Sang-sup in 1946. Sources give the date as either 3 March or 3 May, and the club took the name Ji Do Kwan during the Korean War.[1][3] The date marks the karate club, not the origin of the Chosun Yun Moo Kwan itself, which the sources describe as a long-established Kodokan judo school.[1] A 2008 Korean conference paper lists the 조선연무관 (Chosun Yun Moo Kwan) under Chun Sang-sup in Seoul in March 1946 and says it was renamed 지도관 (Ji Do Kwan) during the Korean War.[4]

The Yun Moo Kwan #

Chun taught karate in the Kwon Bup section of the Chosun Yun Moo Kwan, which was one of the few martial arts schools the Japanese occupying forces allowed to stay open.[2] The school's name appears as Yun Moo Kwan and Yun Mu Kwan.

After the war #

After the Korean War the school was restarted under new teachers and the name Ji Do Kwan. Yun Kwae-byung was voted first headmaster by Chun's former students.[2] Yun Byung-in was Chun's close associate, and the Chang Moo Kwan grew from his YMCA club.

Today #

The Ji Do Kwan was absorbed into the unified Korean Taekwondo system. It operates in Korea today as a social fraternal order that endorses the Kukkiwon method and supports World Taekwondo.[2]

Lineage links

Founders
Chun Sang-sup
Annexes
Han Moo Kwan

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. 안정덕, 송강영, "한국 전통무예로서 태권도의 문화적 정체성 탐색", 2008 한국콘텐츠학회 춘계종합학술대회 koreascience.kr

Online sources last checked 7 November 2026.