[KevinDonae]

I found a reference to a document that is supposed to contain information on the trial concerning Haidong gumdo (a korean style claiming some ridiculus stuff about it's background) on e-budo. Problem is my knowledge of korean extends no further than "anyoung hasseyo". So I'm hoping someone could help me by translating the contents of the file or at least give a summary of it.
The file can be found here: http://www.kumdo.org/news/download.p...%CB%B5%B51.hwp

Hi Okami-San....

Have you tried researching under 'Haedong Kumdo'? Check out http://www.haedong2001.com/

Cheers

[Gozmand]

I can't read Korean very well.....can't open the link you put up, either. Try putting it up on the forum on this site
http://www.johnwasham.com/dictionary.shtml
you could also use the dictionary to translate it one word at a time.....if you really wanted to....

[HaseBeceDeemy]

crabbi, I have researched HDGD, the short version being that the two founders learned something called "shimgumdo" from some buddist monk who claimed he in turn learned it from "divine visions".
The "ki" exercises come from another rather obscure art called "gicheon" or something similar.

They taught it as "shimgumdo" until they sometime in the middle 80's renamed it haidong gumdo and made up some ridculous background story about "samurang" from ancient korea moving to Japan and laying the foundations for the japanese samurai caste.
All this 500 years before the bushi class appeared i Japan and around 1000 years before they started to be called samurai (also, the kanji for samurang are read as "shiburo" in japanese).

Why I'm interested in the contents of the file is because som HDGD-fanatic keeps editing the wikipedia-entry for it and I'm looking for sources to confirm the findings during the trial.

[shanice]

I found a reference to a document that is supposed to contain information on the trial concerning Haidong gumdo (a korean style claiming some ridiculus stuff about it's background) on e-budo. Problem is my knowledge of korean extends no further than "anyoung hasseyo". So I'm hoping someone could help me by translating the contents of the file or at least give a summary of it.
The file can be found here: http://www.kumdo.org/news/download.p...%CB%B5%B51.hwp

[Pete789]

Can't read it. It's a HWP file and I have nothing that will open it. From what I remember I think there was a lawsuit and the founder of HDGD admitted that HDGD was a modern construction and they came up with it rather than learning it from some old guy who passed the art onto them.

I found a reference to a document that is supposed to contain information on the trial concerning Haidong gumdo (a korean style claiming some ridiculus stuff about it's background) on e-budo. Problem is my knowledge of korean extends no further than "anyoung hasseyo". So I'm hoping someone could help me by translating the contents of the file or at least give a summary of it.
The file can be found here: http://www.kumdo.org/news/download.p...%CB%B5%B51.hwp