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Browsing through a selection of Taekwondo websites, and watching video footage, led me to conclude that Taekwondo practitioners share a love of spectacularly high kicks, and a loathing of substandard joinery and building materials.(Just joking!) Upon examination, the arts would appear very similar, but Taekwondo places more of an emphasis on the kicking techniques. There is even a set of tenets similar to the Dojo Kun, stressing integrity, honesty, politeness, etc. All the sites that i saw seemed to claim that Taekwondo is thousands of years old, either glossing over, or failing to mention at all the obvious Japanese influence. Perhaps this is done out of loyalty to the Koreans, whose historical dislike of the Japanese is well known. The founder of modern Taekwondo, Choi Hong Hi, was a shodan in Shotokan Karate, and may even have trained under Funakoshi himself.
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