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**VogsHoock** · 03-10-2006, 11:03 AM

ok, i've been reading up on diff dojang sites on kumdo to see if there's a diff. but it seems that one is just korean and the other japanese. My curiousity is, a lot of Kumdo sites states it started in korea then spread to japan..so just wondering if it's true. If not, and it is japanese orientated (which i always thought) Why would they change the name of it to Kumdo?? Wouldn't that be like me taking Karate and giving it a diff name just because i speak a diff language? just curious...i hope i don't get flamed on if this is a dumb quest.

kumdo and kendo are same two chinese characters just pronounced differently. if you can read korean, try http://www.kumdo.org/ which is korean kumdo association which belongs to IKF. it details the reason why koreans still call kendo, kumdo and IKF agreed to koreans calling it kumdo. it has something to do with history of organized kumdo body in korea which has very similar time line as did japanese kendo.

as for the art we practice, it's basically same thing. kumdo-ga wears same armor that was developed in japan sometime ago, and use same techniques.

there are number of different kumdo org in korea as there are number of different kendo org in japan. some of those kumdo org wants to believe that kumdo/kendo is korean thing. some orgs in korean out right indicates that they just don't like japanese domination of kendo around the world (World Kumdo Asso.). by the way, i might be wrong, but the person who founded WKA was vice president of IKF when IKF was found.

the name kumdo by itself doesn't have any specific meaning. it just means way of sword. and by that means, any form of sword art could be called kumdo in korea. and yes. koreans have their own sword form, altho not as well known as japanese.. and i'm not talking about hae dong kumdo. and these are detailed in number of historical documentation in korea.

pete

03-10-2006, 11:03 AM	#11
VogsHoock Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 524 Senior Member	ok, i've been reading up on diff dojang sites on kumdo to see if there's a diff. but it seems that one is just korean and the other japanese. My curiousity is, a lot of Kumdo sites states it started in korea then spread to japan..so just wondering if it's true. If not, and it is japanese orientated (which i always thought) Why would they change the name of it to Kumdo?? Wouldn't that be like me taking Karate and giving it a diff name just because i speak a diff language? just curious...i hope i don't get flamed on if this is a dumb quest. kumdo and kendo are same two chinese characters just pronounced differently. if you can read korean, try http://www.kumdo.org/ which is korean kumdo association which belongs to IKF. it details the reason why koreans still call kendo, kumdo and IKF agreed to koreans calling it kumdo. it has something to do with history of organized kumdo body in korea which has very similar time line as did japanese kendo. as for the art we practice, it's basically same thing. kumdo-ga wears same armor that was developed in japan sometime ago, and use same techniques. there are number of different kumdo org in korea as there are number of different kendo org in japan. some of those kumdo org wants to believe that kumdo/kendo is korean thing. some orgs in korean out right indicates that they just don't like japanese domination of kendo around the world (World Kumdo Asso.). by the way, i might be wrong, but the person who founded WKA was vice president of IKF when IKF was found. the name kumdo by itself doesn't have any specific meaning. it just means way of sword. and by that means, any form of sword art could be called kumdo in korea. and yes. koreans have their own sword form, altho not as well known as japanese.. and i'm not talking about hae dong kumdo. and these are detailed in number of historical documentation in korea. pete
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