#came from (as a reclamation of traditional arts by koreans drafted into the japanese army mixed with japanese martial arts)
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You know what was really cringe today? Before the tournament, they had a prayer that was like, "thank you god for inventing Taekwondo"
And obv besides the insensitivity of having a fucking christian prayer in a group that is not homogenously christian, it's also super dumb because the fucking people who invented Taekwondo weren't fucking christians* >.<
#*with some brief investigation of wikipedia articles it looks like maybe some of them could have been christian#a significant faction fled north korea to south in the aftermath of WWII and that kinda lines up with the traditionalist story of where TKD#came from (as a reclamation of traditional arts by koreans drafted into the japanese army mixed with japanese martial arts)#but most south koreans in that era followed Sindo#so the breakdown is kind of hard. none of the original grandmasters have specific religious leanings listed on wikipedia#in any case. probably a significant amt of non-christians worked on inventing TKD#which makes the dumbass 'give all glory to god' thing even more stupid#i hate how conservative TKD (and martial arts in general) is#buncha military ppl running things and it really affects the politics#Teslynn personal
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