We can often see such childish proclivities in today's Korea, especially about what has been transferred from Japan (For example, soy sauce, rice and capitalist economy). Not a few Korean people can not accept their history which they have been taught by Japan because of their traditional despising Japan feelings based on their "chosen people" consciousness (petit Sinocentrism). This is the same for Korean government, academics, teachers and general public.

- Choi Hong Hi modified Karate and named it "taekwondo" to hide its Japanese origin.

- Next, WTF erased the name of Choi Hong Hi from taekwondo's history to fabricate the history.

- They fabricated taekwondo's several thousand years' history, and spread its false history around the world.

韓国ではこうした小児的な性癖を、いわゆる植民地時代に伝わったものを中心に、あらゆるところで見ることができます (例：醤油、 米、 資本主義)。 伝統的な選民意識(小中華思想)に基づいた侮日意識のため、 彼らは日本から教えてもらってきた歴史を、政府も、学者も、教師も、 一般国民も受け入れることができないのです。

- チェホンヒはテコンドーの出自を日本の空手でないように見せかけるため、テコンドーという名前をつけた。

- テコンドーの真の歴史を隠すため、今度はWTFが「創設者」チェホンヒの名前を消した。

-テコンドーの数千年の歴史を捏造し、世界中に広めた。

- 伝統文化への飢餓感
- 日本、日本人への劣等感、
- そして憎悪

- Insatiable hunger for traditional culture
- Inferiority complex toward Japan and Japanese
- Hatred of Japan and Japanese

General Choi; Yes, they are both true. I was born in Korea on November 9, 1918. At the time, the Korean calendar was based on the moon's cycle. Each month having 27 or 28 days. In the 1960s, Korea switched to the Western calendar, one based on sun's cycle, with each month having 30 or 31 days. According to the Western calendar, my birthday is on December 22. So though I have two birthdays. November 9, 1918 is the one I have chosen to celebrate.

As for my names, the first is Choi Hong Hi, given to me by my father at the time of my birth in 1918. My other name is "Tae Kwon-Do" given to me by God in 1955.

General Choi; My training is sparkled by a famous incident during Japanese occupation of Korea. In 1930, a group of Japanese students taunted and harassed a group of Korean female students on a train bound for Kwang Ju City. Upon its arrival in Kwang Ju, angry and outraged Korean students surrounded Japanese students and beat them severely. Later Japanese police came and ruthlessly crashed Korean student defenders. Word of this incident spread rapidly through Korea. To protest the outrageous acts of the Japanese students and police, students staged strikes and walkouts in schools throughout our country. In the school I attended, I was one of the leaders of the protest movement and planned and directed a student walkout at my school.

For this, I was expelled from the Japanese school system.

My father, strongly anti-Japanese but also concerned about my future, urged me to study Chinese characters and the art of Calligraphy. he felt that one day I could get a job making tombstones using these skills. So I went to study with Master Han, Il Dong, a renowned calligrapher. I also learned Tack Kyun, may first martial art, from him.

General Choi; I studied Calligraphy and Chinese characters for seven years. My father became satisfied with the level of skill and proficiency I had achieved. It was during this time that I became interested in learning more about Western culture, science and laws. Some of my friends were studying about the West in Japan. During their vacations home, they told me of their studies and encouraged me to join them in Japan. So that's how I decides to go to Japan.

A few days before I was to depart for Japan, I lost all of my money in card fame. This was the money I was to use to live and travel in Japan. I begged Mr. Hur to return some of the money I lost to him. He refused, telling me that the playing cards was to make money, not give it away. As he stopped to leave I picked up an ink bottle that was nearby and flung it at him. The bottle struck him in the forehead and knocked him unconscious. And the ink and blood flowed down his face. I took the money from his pocket and ran home. A couple of days later I arrived in Kyoto, Japan.

I knew that I would never be able to go back to my hometown without learning some form of self-defense. I first thought about learning how to box, but my friend, Kim hyun Soo, convinced me to watch a Karate class with him at Dong Dai Sa University. A few days afterwards I began to practice Karate.

General Choi; My original plan was to enter high school in Kyoto. For a year and a half, I ceaselessly studied English and mathematics and practiced Karate. But I failed the examination to enter the fourth grade of high school. So I moved to Tokyo because I thought that I would have a better chance to enroll in school there. A good friend from my hometown, Lee, Jong Ryun, lived in Tokyo and helped me settle there. Again, I studied English, mathematics and Karate. Finally I passed entrance examination and enrolled into the fourth grade of the Dong A Business High School. This allowed me to eventually enter the Law School of Choong Ang University.

At the university, I practiced Karate under the supervision of Master Guchin Funagoshi, the founder of Shotokan. Under Master Funagoshi, I practiced at the Shotokan(Dojo) and regularly participated in special "night walking" training from Tokyo to Kamakura City. After I was promoted to second degree black belt in Karate, my friend Yoon, Byung In and I began teaching Karate on the roof of the Tokyo YMCA building. In later years, after the liberation of Korea in 1945, Master Yoon went back to Korea and created the Kwon Bub Club at the Seoul YMCA.

General Choi; By the end of 1942, I, among others, believed that Japan was going to lose the war, so it would have been very foolish to join the Japanese Army. But by this time, most Korean students in Japan were prevented from going to school and forced into the Army. Many of us went into hiding, moving from inn to inn, in order to escape being crafted. The police finally caught up with me and forced me to join the Japanese Army on October 20, 1943. I was sent back to Seoul to join other drafted Korean students for basic training at Seoul National University. We were then sent to the 42nd Unit of the Pyung Yang Division.

There was much resistance among the ranks. Soon after our arrival, I was part of the group of 30 Korean students-soldiers that decided to try to escape to the Baek Doo Mountains located on the Manchurian-Korean Border.

There we would join Underground Korean Liberation Army and fight against the Japanese occupiers. Our plan to escape failed. We were all arrested and tried for treason. Initially, I received a seven year prison term. But later, the sentence was changed and I was to be executed on August 18, 1945. Just three days before my execution, my country was liberated from the Japanese occupation forces. on August 15, 1945, I walked out of Pyung Yang Prison.

General Choi; As my fellow student-soldiers and I left prison, we heard an appeal to us from the Kun Joon or Preparation Committee for self-government in Seoul. Broadcast over the radio was an invitation from Mr. Yu, Woon Young, the leader of the Committee, to come to Seoul and join in the effort. Under his leadership, we formed the Students' Volunteer Group to maintain law and order because the Korean police force had not yet been created.

Later Mr. Yu was assassinated, the Students' Volunteer Group spilt into two groups, one that advocated communism and the group that I led which the ideals of democracy.

In this role, I had the chance to meet with a U. S. Army Major Reas, the Superintendent of Military English School. The Military English School would later become Korean Military Academy. It was through this meeting that I became one of the 110 founding fathers of the Korean Army.

General Choi; When I arrived at the Fourth Regimental Headquarters in Kwang Ju. I found that the local police forces were very well organized. They had already assembled a larger force and acquired more power and authority than we in the Army. Frequently, police officers arrested military personnel on minor charges and then beat them for punishment.

This was intolerable and as a result, I ordered that no personnel could travel outside of the military compound alone. Furthermore, I included the practice of Tang Soo(karate) as part of the military training regimen. But my conscience felt shame over the decision to teach Karate. As a man, I despised the Japanese, so how could I teach Karate to my Korean soldiers? This is when I began my research in martial arts, I wanted to create a new Korean martial art that was based on scientific movement and contained a mentality to fit Korea soldiers.

I researched and practiced and refined this new art for nine years. In 1955, I created the Korean martial art of Taekwondo.

General Choi; In June of 1949, I was ordered to attend the Advanced Military Training School in the United States. At the time I received my orders, I was on my honeymoon and I really did not want to leave my bride. But I am a soldier and I obey orders. Under the leadership of Colonel Choi, Duk Shin, four of us boarded a ship bound for the United States.

One day during our voyage, as I practiced kicking on the deck of the ship, the shoe on my kicking leg flew off my foot into the air and landed in the Pacific. Well, I could not wear just one she, so I took off the other one and and flung it into the ocean as well. And then I returned to my room. Upon our arrival in the United States, we first went to the Grand General School at Fort Riley, Kansas, and later attended the Advanced command School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

During respites from our military training, I had the opportunity to demonstrate Tang Soo techniques for my fellow classmates. We graduated on June 23, 1950, two days before war broke out in my country.

We rushed to get back to Korea. Upon my arrival, I was ordered to establish the Officer Training School. While serving as the Vice Superintendent of the school, I was visited by Master Lee, Won Kuk, the founder of Chung Do Kwan. He told me that he had to leave for Japan for "personal reasons" and asked me to take over as head of Chung Do Kwan. I accepted his request, but since I was a General in the Army. I became honorary head and appointed Master Son, Duk Son as head of Chung Do Kwan.

When our troops crossed the 38th parallel, I was assigned to the First Corp. One of my first tasks was to give a briefing to General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander of the United Nations Troops. He was visiting the front line and I was selected to update him on the battle situation. Many generals from U.N. forces came with him. After the thirty minutes briefing, I asked him if he had any questions. To which he replied, "No questions; very clear." And then he approached me and while shaking my hand, asked me my name.

General Choi; In September of 1953, General Back, Sun Yuh, the Chief of Staff of the Korean Army, asked me to create 28th Division. I asked him, "Will this be the last division created during the war?" He said, "No, there will be one more division created in a few months." So, I asked him if I could create the last division, the 29th Infantry Division and he granted my request.

The first thing I set out to do was to create distinctive division flag. From the number 29, the two symbolized the divided Korean peninsula. The number nine I saw as my fist. I created the division flag with my fist over the Korean Peninsula. After seeing the flag, people gave the 29th the nickname, "The Fist Division" or "Ik Keu Division"

My second task was to choose the division's military commmand staff. To assist me in trainning the troops in military drills, I enlisted the aid of Colonel Ha, Chung Kab and Li, Colonel Kim, Hawng Mok. I also recruited Master Nam, Tae Hee and Master Han, Cha Kyo to help me train the soldiers in Tang Soo. By this time, although I still called the martial art, Tang Soo, the characteristics and quality of techniques were now far different from the Karate that I had practiced in Japan.

To my officers and Tang Soo instructors, I gave very specific orders. "When the soldiers train Tang Soo, everyone has to bow to the instructors, regardless of military rank. Outside of the gym, salutations go according to military rank."

The combinations of military drills and Tang Soo practice made our division unique among the others in the Korean army. We were ready to fight with or without weapons.

General Choi; In june of 1954, the Fist Division left Cheju Island to become a part of the Second Corp, located in the Kang Won province in Eastern part of Korea. In the middle of September, a joint ceremony was held to commemorate the fourth birthday of Second Corp and the first birthday of the 29th Division. As part of the ceremony, the 29th demonstrated Tang Soo techniques. President Rhee watched our demonstration with great interest and did not sit down once during the thirty minute performance. When Master Nam, Tae Hee broke roofing tiles with his fist, the President, pointing to his knuckles asked me, "Is this the part used to break the tile?" To which I replied, "Yes, Sir!" Then the President turned towards the other generals in the audience and said, "This is Taek Kyun. I want to see all of our soldiers train in this art."

It is true that many of the other generals on the Korean Army did not want me to teach Tang Soo to their soldiers. But the President's declaration made it easier to introduce Tang Soo to the rest of the Army. In order to do this, I need to build an institute to train and produce martial arts instructors. When the 29th Division moved its Headquarters to Yong Dae Ri, west of Sulrak Mountain, I ordered a gymnasium to be built, I named it Oh Do Kwan and it was here that Master Nam, Tae Hee began to teach Tang Soo to military instructors.

President Rhee's description of our art as Taek Kyun made me think that Tang Soo needed a new name, one that was close to Taek Kyun. The techniques I was teaching were neither Tang Soo nor Taek Kyun and I needed a new name urgently.

Greneral Choi; As I mentioned previously, I had been researching, training and teaching Tang Soo since my assigment to the Fourth Regment in Kwang Ju City in 1946. The art was based on Asian Philosophy and the techniques on scientific movement. Our demonstration before President Rhee was a great success. I had created the name Taekwon-Do and by 1955 felt it was time to announce the new name of the art. But rather than just proclaiming the name myself, I thought it wise to create an advisory committee for this purpose. At the time many of the civilian dojangs were using the name Tang Soo, Kong Soo or Kwon Bub, because many generals in the Army were not happpy with my activities.

The committee was comprised of many prominent citizens, such as Mr. Cho, Kyung Jae, the Vice Speaker of the National Assembly, General Lee, Hyung Keun, the Commander in Chief of the Army, presidents of newspaper companies, etc. At the meeting, I explained that the name Taekwon-Do meant the Art of kicking and Punching. While some of the members favored the names Tang Soo and Kong Soo, all agreed the name to use was Taekwon-Do. But one of the committee members suggested that we submit the name to President Rhee for his approval. The name was sent to President Rhee and he rejected it. He felt that Taek Kyun was a traditional martial and that we should use it instead. I approached Mr.Kwak, Young Joo, the President's Chief of Staff and Mr. Suh, Jung Hak, the Director of the President's Protective Forces, and I explained to them that this was a new art, much different from the old art of Taek Kyun. I asked them to try persuade the President to accept the new name. Finally, I recived permission from President Rhee to use the new name of Taekwon-Do.

After receiving the president 's approval, I ordered the old Tang Soo signs in front of Oh Do Kwan and Chung Do Kwan to be replaced with the new Taekwon-Do signs.

And I instructed Master Nam, Tae Hee that Taekwon-Do soldiers say "Tae Kwon" when they salute each other.

The name of Taekwon-Do gradually spread through military ranks ranks through Oh Do Kwan and to civilian students through Chung Do Kwan.

In recollection, I think that it was possible to make the name "Taekwon-Do", because I was a two-star general, and had a powerful friend in General Lee, Hyung Keun, the Commander in Chief of the Army, and a good relationship with President Seung Man Rhee through Calligraphy and Tang Soo. (To be continued)