Kong Soo Do

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Kong Soo Do

Ancestor arts	Shotokan
Descendant arts	Jidokwan, Song Moo Kwan

Kong Soo Do

Hangul	공수도
Hanja	空手道
Revised Romanization	kong su do
McCune-Reischauer	kong su do

Kong Soo Do (공수도) is a Korean martial art. Its name is composed of the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese characters for "karate-do". In English it means "empty-hand way".

Two of the original five Kwans used the Kong So Do name. They were "Chosun Yun Moo Kwan Kong Soo Do Bu" which later changed its name to "Jidokwan", and the YMCA Kwon Bop Bu, which later changed its name to Chang Moo Kwan. Jidokwan's founder Chun Sang Sup learned Okinawan Karate from Gichin Funakoshi.

Kwon Bop Bu/Chang Moo Kwan - founded in 1947 by Byung In Yoon who had studied Chinese kung fu (chu'an-fa, or 'fist law') in Manchuria and Japanese versions of Chinese martial arts Shudokan karate with Kanken Tōyama in Japan. Yoon disappeared during the Korean War, but information about him was later recovered by original Chang Moo Kwan student, Kim Pyung-soo in 2005, when he found Yoon Byun-in's family. Yoon's teachings were carried on by his top students Nam Suk Lee(Chang Moo Kwan),Park Chul-hee and Hong Jong-Pyo (both Kang Duk Won).