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"Think with pride of the men
and women of our armed
forces, who are keeping our
nation safe and defending
freedom around the world".
Our thoughts and prayers
will be with you Mr. Munyon,
US ITF Armed Forces Director
and all that are with you
Blue Cottage Taekwon-Do
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Issue 9 ~ Volume 1 ~ July  3, 2007

                                  CHOONG-MOO



Movements - 30
Ready Posture - PARALLEL READY STANCE C

                  
CHOONG-MOO was the name given to the great Admiral Yi Soon-Sin of
the Lee Dynasty. He was reputed to have invented the first armoured
battleship (Kobukson) in 1592, which is said to be the precursor of the
present day submarine. The reason why this pattern ends with a left
hand attack is to symbolize his regrettable death, having no chance to
show his unrestrained potentiality checked by the forced reservation of
his loyalty to the king.



Yi Sun-sin kept a careful record of daily events in his diary. This diary,
when completed, contained some 2539 entries, both private and official,
together comprising an account of his life in the camps during the
period of the Seven Years War, the first entry appearing on January 1,
1592, the day of his appointment as Admiral of the Left Cholla Province,
and the last on November 17, 1598, two days before his death at the
battle of Noryang. Two copies of the diary have survived to us: one is
the original diary (designated National Treasure No.76), and is housed at
the Asan Memorial Shrine, and the second is to be found in The
Complete Works of Yi Sun-sin, a work edited and published by Yun
Hang-im by Royal Command in the 19th year of King Jung Jo’s reign,
1795. Admiral Yi did not give an official title to his diary, but it has been
known as War Diary (Kor. Nangjung Ilgi) since Yun conceived it as a
convenient title when compiling his Complete Works.
War Diary is a source of the utmost historical importance, as its detailed
pages provide for us the most reliable information about the course of
events during the Seven Years War. Not only this, but it is from its
entries that we have learned much of what we know today about the
mind and character of a hero who saved Korea almost half a millennium
ago.