Martial art is one of the biggest sports in South Korea and Taekwondo, Taekkyon as well as Hapkido were all established in South Korea.
태권도 (Taekwondo) have apparently been traised as far back as the 1st centuary BC, and it only became widely known during the Second WW. Soon it became part of the combat military training and has been incorporated in the miliary training rules since 1961. Taekwondo was the world's largest sport in 1989, and has been one the games in the Olympics since 2000. There are traditional taekwondo as well as sport taekwondo and the training includes combat techniques, self-defense, sport, exercise, mediation and philosophy.
World Taekwondo Federation and International Taekwon-Do Federation are the two most popular organizations in the world.
택견(Taekkyeon) originates from an art from called Subak which apparently was divided and split into two parts back in the time of the early Joseon Dynasty. Song Duk Ki was one of the last Old practioners that teached Taejkkyeon the old way, when he died in 1987 he was 94 years old and he was national treasure status the same year.
The style or training includes kicks , hand and leg techniques. Apparently it is supposed to have around 10 different techniques.
합기도 (Hapkido) is not as closely related to Aikido as many apparently seems to believe. They are two very different martial arts sports. Choi Yong Sool he was born in 1899 and died in 1986 and he only is responsible for creating the modern Hapkido style, he had five gifted students, Seo Boek Seob being his first student, Ji Han Jae, Kim Moo Hong, Myung Jae Nam and Myung Kwan - Sik. Where the last one linked Hapkido with Aikido...
Today Hyun Kwan Seek is supposedly one of the few 9th degree Hapkido Black belts in the US. He is apparently responsible for traning over 12.000 students as well as 9000 policemen in the art of Hapkido so far.
Hapkido mixes soft techniques from jujutsu and aikido with hard techniques stemming from taekwondo.The Korean Hapkido Association was established in 1965 on request from the Korean president Park Jeong Hee.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Monday, 30 January 2012
The Jewelry Box
Below just a short sory I came up with from the top of my head...
The topic might be what you pressume just as it might not be, it could be just a short sweet story. With no hidden or underlying meaning - but I'll leave all that for you - my readers.
Once there was a troubled girl who lived from day by day, one day she tripped over a diamond a few years later she learned the diamond wasn't real. She tried to replace the diamond with gold only to discover that gold instead was yellow mica, everwhere she looked she only found yellow mica. Until years later when someone told her that she'd found a real gem - but it again was no gem. It was no ruby, emerald, sapphire or amber not even a diamond in the rough. Her jewelry box again was empty filled with nothing, around her neck there was no necklace, when she looked in the mirror she felt like there was something missing - she felt incomplete. Of course she always had her trusty necklace made of pearls of sorrow.
The girl's mother comforted her daughter by telling her that she didn't need a filled jewelry box, all she needed was one special gem.But right now the pearls of sorrow looked really good around her neck, the girl was told by her mother that she would know if a gem was made for her. It could be a ruby, emerald, sapphire or amber could be the gem that would be meant for her.
But the girl's mother also said that her daughter was beautiful just the way she was that she didn't need jewelary to make herself look beautiful. The girl would discover jewelary and gems soon enough.
That night the girl went to sleep with a light heart and woke up the next day with a smile, she knew that she one day would own a gem just like her mother.
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The topic might be what you pressume just as it might not be, it could be just a short sweet story. With no hidden or underlying meaning - but I'll leave all that for you - my readers.
Once there was a troubled girl who lived from day by day, one day she tripped over a diamond a few years later she learned the diamond wasn't real. She tried to replace the diamond with gold only to discover that gold instead was yellow mica, everwhere she looked she only found yellow mica. Until years later when someone told her that she'd found a real gem - but it again was no gem. It was no ruby, emerald, sapphire or amber not even a diamond in the rough. Her jewelry box again was empty filled with nothing, around her neck there was no necklace, when she looked in the mirror she felt like there was something missing - she felt incomplete. Of course she always had her trusty necklace made of pearls of sorrow.
The girl's mother comforted her daughter by telling her that she didn't need a filled jewelry box, all she needed was one special gem.But right now the pearls of sorrow looked really good around her neck, the girl was told by her mother that she would know if a gem was made for her. It could be a ruby, emerald, sapphire or amber could be the gem that would be meant for her.
But the girl's mother also said that her daughter was beautiful just the way she was that she didn't need jewelary to make herself look beautiful. The girl would discover jewelary and gems soon enough.
That night the girl went to sleep with a light heart and woke up the next day with a smile, she knew that she one day would own a gem just like her mother.
© Taste of Kimchi, Elle
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Sunday, 29 January 2012
Jeanne D'Arc
Sometimes I wish I could be more like the French heroine Jeanne D'Arc, really really believing in your principles having that kind of conviction and belief in yourself. Even dying for your principles and for your country....
I'm not a Catholic I'm not even sure if I believe in God, I believe in something.. maybe not God. I respect the people that do but personally I can't say that I do. I was raised as a Swedish child therefore I'm a Lutheran. There I said it.
But I still admire Jeanne D'Arc for her courage, her conviction, belief and principles. She was alive in the 15th century,so if anything maybe she was one of the world's first feminists...
Yet I'll never become a Catholic... Of that I'm sure, but it doesn't make me any less of a person. A person's religion, race or sexual orientation shouldn't matter, because in the end all people are equals ; we're equals when we're born and we're equals before death...
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I'm not a Catholic I'm not even sure if I believe in God, I believe in something.. maybe not God. I respect the people that do but personally I can't say that I do. I was raised as a Swedish child therefore I'm a Lutheran. There I said it.
But I still admire Jeanne D'Arc for her courage, her conviction, belief and principles. She was alive in the 15th century,so if anything maybe she was one of the world's first feminists...
Yet I'll never become a Catholic... Of that I'm sure, but it doesn't make me any less of a person. A person's religion, race or sexual orientation shouldn't matter, because in the end all people are equals ; we're equals when we're born and we're equals before death...
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Saturday, 28 January 2012
Time For Rice
I have reconciled with my past, I truely have many questions will never be answered but it's 괜핞아.
어머니 괜핞아.
It's allright, it really is my soul is at peace now, because I don't need to find the answers when I got something else, something far more greater than I ever could have hoped for. I was able to find my other family, my first family and I was welcomed back into the family. I am proud and happy to know that I got them my very large first family, it fills me with excitement and joy whenever I come up with ways to show them that I care.
But the love, determination, dedication and devotion can never and will never be replaced, missplaced or forgotten. My first family is that important to me and my newest family understands that. They are not at all threatened by that because they know nothing replace them and suddenly take their places. With friends it's another thing, I'll never let my friends become more important than my first family and maybe that's threatening to them...
I know you need to compromise when it comes to love and relationships but I don't think you should compromise with your own feelings if you know it wouldn't work. I like my independence too much at this point, I'm happy to be just the younger sister that's more than I ever could have hoped for. Maybe I'm unable to love someone in that sense to give yourself to someone so completely. Then I'm remined that well, I'm still young not even 30 I'll be 여섯 스무 살 meaning 26 years old so there is still time left to worry about that.
Besides it doesn't feel right to start something new when I have my heart set on moving to Korea permanentely. That's how much I care for my first family and I will nothing get between them and me just as I will not anybody or anything to change or spoil my moving plans.
In the meantime I will have some rice, until it's my time for rice... Or I could watch the 너를 않을거야 26 Year's Diary which is true story about Lee Su Hyon's love for a Japanese woman and his life until his tragic and too soon death on January 26th 2001... Su Hyon actually died when he tried to rescue a man who had fallen onto the railway tracks of the Train East Japan Railway Shin at Okubo Station on the on the Yamanote Line. In the drama Lee Tae - Sung and Makii portrays the Korean Japanese young couple.
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어머니 괜핞아.
It's allright, it really is my soul is at peace now, because I don't need to find the answers when I got something else, something far more greater than I ever could have hoped for. I was able to find my other family, my first family and I was welcomed back into the family. I am proud and happy to know that I got them my very large first family, it fills me with excitement and joy whenever I come up with ways to show them that I care.
But the love, determination, dedication and devotion can never and will never be replaced, missplaced or forgotten. My first family is that important to me and my newest family understands that. They are not at all threatened by that because they know nothing replace them and suddenly take their places. With friends it's another thing, I'll never let my friends become more important than my first family and maybe that's threatening to them...
I know you need to compromise when it comes to love and relationships but I don't think you should compromise with your own feelings if you know it wouldn't work. I like my independence too much at this point, I'm happy to be just the younger sister that's more than I ever could have hoped for. Maybe I'm unable to love someone in that sense to give yourself to someone so completely. Then I'm remined that well, I'm still young not even 30 I'll be 여섯 스무 살 meaning 26 years old so there is still time left to worry about that.
Besides it doesn't feel right to start something new when I have my heart set on moving to Korea permanentely. That's how much I care for my first family and I will nothing get between them and me just as I will not anybody or anything to change or spoil my moving plans.
In the meantime I will have some rice, until it's my time for rice... Or I could watch the 너를 않을거야 26 Year's Diary which is true story about Lee Su Hyon's love for a Japanese woman and his life until his tragic and too soon death on January 26th 2001... Su Hyon actually died when he tried to rescue a man who had fallen onto the railway tracks of the Train East Japan Railway Shin at Okubo Station on the on the Yamanote Line. In the drama Lee Tae - Sung and Makii portrays the Korean Japanese young couple.
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Friday, 27 January 2012
Old Boy
I'm certainly not spoiled when it comes to watching Korean movies on TV on Swedish television... But it seems as if the Swedish channel SVT1 either have changed their minds or Korean movies must be really good. Either way Old boy is the second Korean movie that I've seen on Swedish TV since getting back from my Korea trip last summer...
And the plot for Old boy is even more complicated then Lady Vengeance, a lot of adult scenes even incest and you don't really understands who takes revenge on who. Old friends turns to enemies which causes death in the end. But it is a really interesting movie even though I might be partial - again. Unfortunately I missed the first segment in this three part movie, the one I havn't watched is Sympathy for Mr Vengeance.
In Korean the names of these movies are :
복누는 나의것
올드보이
츼절한 금자씨
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And the plot for Old boy is even more complicated then Lady Vengeance, a lot of adult scenes even incest and you don't really understands who takes revenge on who. Old friends turns to enemies which causes death in the end. But it is a really interesting movie even though I might be partial - again. Unfortunately I missed the first segment in this three part movie, the one I havn't watched is Sympathy for Mr Vengeance.
In Korean the names of these movies are :
복누는 나의것
올드보이
츼절한 금자씨
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Thursday, 26 January 2012
Mind, Body & Soul
I seriously doubt that there will be a near end of the Korean conflict which hasn't ended officially despite the fact that it has lasted for over 60 years now. I'm at least not confident that a reunification of the Korean peninsula is near, because South Korea has been doing pretty well and is now considered one of Asia's leading economies while the same can't be said for its Northern neighbour...
For South Korea it would be detrimental if North Korea fell, because it would mean that North Koreans would try to escape to South Korea which most likely would cause the South Korean economy to slowdown its progress...
Although North Korea presently still is an autocrazy Americans is currently negotiating and lobbying for a new Korean adoption law which would allow US citizens to adopt North Korean infants, babies and children...
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For South Korea it would be detrimental if North Korea fell, because it would mean that North Koreans would try to escape to South Korea which most likely would cause the South Korean economy to slowdown its progress...
Although North Korea presently still is an autocrazy Americans is currently negotiating and lobbying for a new Korean adoption law which would allow US citizens to adopt North Korean infants, babies and children...
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Wednesday, 25 January 2012
The Rainbow Has Gold
I have accomplished many things that I thought that I never might be able to fulfill. My biggest wish ever has been fulfilled and I'm so tremendously grateful for my Korean family, the post adoption agency, fellow Koreans as well as fellow Korean adoptees. I my still lack some areas of fulfillment in my life, but things are looking far better now. Honestly.
It's like I recently discovered that the rainbow has gold in its end hidden away and it's up to me to find it. My mind and soul are finally at ease. At least. Without scaring anybody unintentionally I can say that if I where to die tomorrow I wouldn't regret it. But you see I have a debt to continue paying of Umma and Appa that probably will take a lifetime to fulfill...
But it's true the rainbow has gold and comes with happiness and unconditional love. Or at least I like to think that it has.
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It's like I recently discovered that the rainbow has gold in its end hidden away and it's up to me to find it. My mind and soul are finally at ease. At least. Without scaring anybody unintentionally I can say that if I where to die tomorrow I wouldn't regret it. But you see I have a debt to continue paying of Umma and Appa that probably will take a lifetime to fulfill...
But it's true the rainbow has gold and comes with happiness and unconditional love. Or at least I like to think that it has.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012
I'm Like A Bird
I'm Like A Bird - Nelly Furtado
A stone has shifted from my chest , last week Missing or Spårlöst in Swedish begun airing again but I didn't feel at least tempted to watch it. That's progress and I feel more secure, calm and light hearted now.
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Monday, 23 January 2012
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
새해 복 많이 받으세요 !!! ^^ Happy New year (again), today marks the start of the Lunar New Year and the year of the Dragon which apparently is the most powerful creature out of them all in the Chinese sodiac... And moreover it's supposedly known or believed that babies born in the year of the dragon are more fortunate in life then those children born in the year of the sheep... A Chinese babyboom ahead soon, perhaps...
Which would mean that Japan, Korean and other Asian countries might see more children being born... And as for Cina at least many women do want more then one child so maybe it's the same for Korean women too...
I know many people way Chinese New Year, but I like the English expression Lunar New Year far more better since the Asian New Year is celebrated according to the Lunar calendar and does not really place that big a deal on China. And no Korean's doesn't like China or Japan that much based on historic happenings which has had a big influence and impact on Korea.
If you believe the Mayan calendar maybe you fear that the 21st December will be the end of the world, and of life as we know it... Or could it be that the upcoming year 2013 will look completely different, would it even be the start of the 6th discourse ?
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Which would mean that Japan, Korean and other Asian countries might see more children being born... And as for Cina at least many women do want more then one child so maybe it's the same for Korean women too...
I know many people way Chinese New Year, but I like the English expression Lunar New Year far more better since the Asian New Year is celebrated according to the Lunar calendar and does not really place that big a deal on China. And no Korean's doesn't like China or Japan that much based on historic happenings which has had a big influence and impact on Korea.
If you believe the Mayan calendar maybe you fear that the 21st December will be the end of the world, and of life as we know it... Or could it be that the upcoming year 2013 will look completely different, would it even be the start of the 6th discourse ?
© Taste of Kimchi, Elle
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Sunday, 22 January 2012
Burn After Reading
As the Korean conflict still seems likely to continue on in the year of the dragon 2012 the (South) Korean army is letting their soldiers train combat training in extreme weather conditions. 20 minus Celcius degrees as well as snow and swimming in freezing water. This is just prepare a special task force of what is likely to happen if the war/conflict intensifies...
Meanwhile North Koreans that didn't obey orders when the deceased leader was buried has been punished with 6 months stay in a worker camp. But there's nothing that says this actually is true... could be , and it just as well might not be.
Oh, yeah and with new leader North Korea is getting online, the regime are now apparently active on Facebook and twitter and has even created an online newspaper... Hm.
And yes, maybe not so interesting but still, the honeymoon couple stuck on the Italian ferry while on a cruise was a South Korean newlywed couple. They said they'd like a new honeymoon but not another cruise.
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Meanwhile North Koreans that didn't obey orders when the deceased leader was buried has been punished with 6 months stay in a worker camp. But there's nothing that says this actually is true... could be , and it just as well might not be.
Oh, yeah and with new leader North Korea is getting online, the regime are now apparently active on Facebook and twitter and has even created an online newspaper... Hm.
And yes, maybe not so interesting but still, the honeymoon couple stuck on the Italian ferry while on a cruise was a South Korean newlywed couple. They said they'd like a new honeymoon but not another cruise.
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