Before 1955, there was no word Taekwondo in Korea, and the main martial arts in Korea were karate, Tang Shoudao and a few Taekwondo heels. 19 10-1945 During Japan's colonial rule in Korea, a large number of young Korean students went to Japan to study, received systematic karate training at Songtao Pavilion in Japan, and obtained corresponding positions. 1945, 15 In August, after Japan's defeat, South Korea gained national independence, the ban on folk martial arts was abolished, and a large number of karate and Tang Shoudao gymnasiums sprang up like mushrooms after rain. During this period, in order to get rid of the negative impact of Japan's colonial rule for more than 30 years and reshape the national spirit, early Korean karate communicators combined taekwondo with karate, which was called Tang Shoudao. And the first batch of Korean Taoist temples appeared, which was the later Jiudaoguan.
The word "Taekwondo" was named by South Korean General Cui Hongxi in 1955. When General Cui Hongxi was studying in Japan in his early years, he studied karate from Songtao Pavilion in Japan and integrated it with Korean traditional martial arts such as kicking somersaults and fighting. Therefore, we can see the routine of Taekwondo from the manual movements of Songtao Pavilion. In a word, modern Taekwondo is one of the Korean Wushu sports which combines contemporary East Asian Wushu skills.