Editing Taekwondo (section)

===Emergence of various ''kwans'' ===
Beginning in 1945, shortly after the end of [[World War II]] and the [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese occupation]], new [[martial arts]] schools called [[Kwan (martial arts)|''kwans'']] opened in [[Seoul]]. These schools were established by Korean martial artists with backgrounds in [[Japanese martial arts|Japanese]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.koreaorbit.com/korea-culture/korean-martial-arts.html |title=Korea: Korean Martial Arts |website=www.koreaorbit.com |access-date=2019-07-05 |archive-date=2019-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190620152230/http://www.koreaorbit.com/korea-culture/korean-martial-arts.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Chinese martial arts]].

Early progenitors of taekwondo—the founders of the nine original ''kwans''—who were able to study in Japan were exposed to [[Japanese martial arts]], including karate, [[judo]], and [[kendo]],<ref name="Park">Park, S. W. (1993): About the author. In H. H. Choi: ''Taekwon-Do: The Korean art of self-defence'', 3rd ed. (Vol. 1, pp. 241–274). Mississauga: International Taekwon-Do Federation</ref> while others were exposed to the martial arts of China and Manchuria.<ref name="Brief History of Taekwondo" /><ref name="Glen">{{cite web |author=Glen R. Morris |title=The History of Taekwondo |url=http://www.worldtaekwondo.com/history.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709083607/http://www.worldtaekwondo.com/history.htm |archive-date=2017-07-09 |access-date=2008-06-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Cook |first=Doug |title=Traditional Taekwondo: Core Techniques, History and Philosophy |publisher=YMAA Publication Center |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-59439-066-1 |location=Boston |page=19 |chapter=Chapter 3: The Formative Years of Taekwondo}}</ref>

Discussions around the historical influences of taekwondo have been controversial, with two main schools of thought: traditionalism and revisionism. Traditionalism holds that the origins of taekwondo are indigenous while revisionism, the prevailing theory, argues that taekwondo is rooted in karate.<ref name="Historical Views">{{Cite journal |last1=Park |first1=Cindy |last2=Kim |first2=Tae Yang |date=2016-06-12 |title=Historical Views on the Origins of Korea's Taekwondo |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2016.1233867 |url-status=live |journal=The International Journal of the History of Sport |volume=33 |issue=9 |pages=978–989 |doi=10.1080/09523367.2016.1233867 |issn=0952-3367 |s2cid=151514066 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403234951/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2016.1233867 |archive-date=2023-04-03 |access-date=2020-03-21}}</ref> In later years, the Korean government has been a significant supporter of traditionalist views as to divorce taekwondo from its link to Japan and give Korea a "legitimate cultural past".<ref>{{cite web |last=Moenig |first=Udo |title=The Influence of Korean Nationalism on the Formational Process of T'aekwŏndo in South Korea |url=https://benjamins.com/catalog/ao.81.2.10moe |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025002239/https://benjamins.com/catalog/ao.81.2.10moe |archive-date=2020-10-25 |access-date=2020-05-05 |website=ao.81.2.10moe |language=en}}</ref>