(Chinese Characters). Under, there was the insignia of the IHF used at that moment, saying International Hankido Federation . Then I came back to Chile and presented all these documents to a experienced martial artists committee organized by the Ministry of Defense to grant or revoke my permission to be responsible of a style in Chile. As a member of this commitee there was even a Korean Hapkido Master who came to Chile many years before. The first thing they all said was: " They were wrong!! ... they misprinted!! The folder and the diploma have the same mistake in ... They changed the p into n !". General reactions showed me the lack of knowledge and culture that was in the air . This story proofs that people criticize and belittle without knowing what they are talking about . A martial art is not only form, is living it. It means: I have to grow, I have to learn about their culture, and at least, I have to know how to join a consonant with a vowel. Kuksanim was always saying: “First, Hankido must be: SIMPLE; Second, Hankido must have RHYTHM and finally, Hankido is for PEOPLE ABLE TO THINK�. In 2010, Hankido was officially recognized by the Korean government as TRADITIONAL martial art ... The great contribution that Kuksanim's heir son, the Doju Myong Sung Kwan, is the fact that in 2010, South Korean government officially recognized the cultural l e g a c y t h a t K u k s a n i m l e f t t h ro u g h t h e i r w o r k i n retrieving the roots of his people. Thus, Hankido today, is the second traditional martial art in Korea, so that culturally, this institution places HANKIDO in the same level as traditional Taekwondo. This phenomenon caused a worldwide "fashionable" partnerships and cooperations between these two martial arts. By this way, there are more than 600 taekwondo masters in Korea, who cared for learning Hankumdo and Hankido techniques at once. This tendence arrived also to E u ro p e a n d t o t h e U . S . a n d H o o n s a n i m A l b e r t o Gamboa has an opinion about it. What is your opinion about strategic alliances already made between Hapkido, Hankido, Hankumdo and Taekwondo schools and organizations? Do you see one future for this type of join? From a theoretical point of view, Hankido and Taekwondo have no point of conjunction, each of them operates independently and they do not share any organs, so what I see is that there is no problem about complementation or about getting alliances and strategies but inside this kind of alliances there are not only ideas and spirits. I mean, men are men and ambition and power are always near, as well as the rivalries about which comes first: the chicken or the egg. In short, the fact of looking at this from a positive point of view, is not only good, but necessary. Everything depends on us, on
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