Jung Do Kwan

The Jung Do Kwan was founded in Seoul by Lee Yong-woo. Wikipedia and Kang Won-sik and Lee Kyong-myong give 1954, and other sources give 1956.^[1][2][3] Kang and Lee place it in a lottery building in Seodaemun District, with branches later opened in Masan, Ulsan, Changwon, Mokpo and Gimje.^[3] A 2008 Korean conference paper also lists the 정도관 (Jung Do Kwan) under Lee Yong-woo in Seoul in 1954.^[5]

Lineage #

Lee Yong-woo trained at the Chung Do Kwan and founded the Jung Do Kwan as its annex. The two kwans' accounts agree that the split was amicable and that the name was a variation on "Chung Do".^[1][3][4]

Unification and today #

The Jung Do Kwan is not among the six kwans Kang and Lee list at the 1959 founding of the Korea Taekwondo Association. Lee became a Korea Taekwondo Association director in 1963 and was among the kwan heads who signed the unification that closed the kwan system in 1978.^[1][3] The kwan continues in Korea as a social club and follows the Kukkiwon curriculum.^[4]