Editing Choi Hong-hi (section)

== Taekwondo ==
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Choi combined elements of Oh Do Kwan [[Karate]] and Tang Soo Do to develop a style of the martial art known as "[[Taekwondo]]"; his organization spelt it Taekwon-Do, (태권도; 跆拳道), which means "foot, fist, art" or "the way of hand and foot" and it was so named on 11 April 1955.{{Sfn|Choi|1993|p=246}}<ref name="Kim">Kim, S. J. (2007): [http://www.sjkim-taekwondo.com/History.html History of Taekwondo] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070703232101/http://www.sjkim-taekwondo.com/History.html |date=3 July 2007 }} Retrieved on 18 September 2007.</ref> Choi co-founded the Oh Do Kwan, and was made an honorary director and given an honorary 5th ''dan'' ranking in the [[Chung Do Kwan]].<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=The International Journal of the History of Sport|title=The Founder of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) Choi Hong Hi: An Exploration of Fiction and Fact|last=Moenig |first=Udo |last2=Choi |first2=Hyun Min |last3=Kim |first3=Minho |date=2021-11-22 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2021.1984232 |doi=10.1080/09523367.2021.1984232 |issn=0952-3367}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|journal=The International Journal of the History of Sport|title=The Early Globalization Process of Taekwondo, from the 1950s to 1971|last=MOENIG |first=Udo |last2=KIM |first2=Young Il |date=2021-07-14 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2020.1845151 |doi=10.1080/09523367.2020.1845151 |issn=0952-3367}}</ref> Due to accusations of dishonesty, Choi was stripped of his rank and position in the Chung Do Kwan.<ref name="Son"/> 

Choi, together with other Korean martial arts instructors, was a major contributor to the global expansion of taekwondo.<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=The International Journal of the History of Sport|title=The Early Globalization Process of Taekwondo, from the 1950s to 1971|last=MOENIG |first=Udo |last2=KIM |first2=Young Il |date=2021-07-14 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2020.1845151 |doi=10.1080/09523367.2020.1845151 |issn=0952-3367}}</ref> ITF taekwondo organizations credit Choi with starting the spread of [[taekwondo]] internationally by stationing Korean taekwondo instructors around the world,{{Sfn|Choi|1993|p=248}} and have consistently claimed that ITF-style taekwondo is the only authentic style of taekwondo, most notably in early sections of its textbooks.<ref name="Franks">Franks, A. (1993): Taekwon-Do and imitators. In H. H. Choi: ''Taekwon-Do: The Korean art of self-defence'', 3rd ed. (Vol. 1, pp. 10–11). Mississauga: International Taekwon-Do Federation.</ref> He was also the author of the first English taekwondo syllabus book, ''Taekwon-Do'', published by Daeha Publication Company in 1965. In 1972, Choi went into exile in Canada after the South Korean government refused to allow his organisation to teach taekwondo in North Korea, and the South Korea government formed the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) in 1973<ref name=":0" /> (renamed to WT in 2018). In 1979 he traveled and defected to North Korea where he was welcomed by the government and supported in his project of spreading Taekwondo to the world.<ref>The Difficult Dialogue: Communism, Nationalism, and Political Propaganda in North Korean Sport, Jung Woo Lee and Alan Bairner, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 2009, 33: 390</ref>