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Thursday, November 12, 2009 

Category: Sports
Did you know Hapkido is written 合気道 in Chinese letters? Which, we Japanese read, yes, you guessed it, Aikido. The founder of Hapkido learned in Japan 大東流合気柔術, under the same teacher who taught the founder of Aikido. So it's natural there are a lot of similarities between the two. To be precise, Koreans would write 合氣道. But 気 is only a simplified form of 氣.

In many Japanese martial art systems including Karate, they call yelling kiai. This is written 気合. Notice these two letters are the same first two letters of Aikido/Hapkido, just in the reverse order. Koreans use exactly the same word; they just read it kihap.
Real Teruchan

 
As someone who's really into kanji, I'm surprised I never noticed that. Of course, it's been ages for me too.
 
Posted by Real Teruchan on Friday, November 13, 2009 - 9:03 PM
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Yasuro

 
See? I knew people like yourself would like knowing this!

Good to have you back on here, T!

 
Posted by Yasuro on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 5:11 AM
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BushinoJi

 
Almost ALL the Korean MA's come from Japan. Anytime you see a "Do" at the end of an art you can pretty much guarantee it has it's roots in Japan. Kuk sool wan, Moo Duk Kwan, So rim sa are exceptions and have their roots in Chinese/Cambodian MA's. The only original art the Koreans have is the sword arts...and those came from Cambodia. First time Korea was conquered by the Japanese was in 8th century. Look at the names of some their kata and you will see the Japanese influence. Bassai(Passai) Bion katas(Pinans) and so on and so on. Aikido comes from Aiki-jutsu, koryu.

 
Posted by BushinoJi on Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 8:52 PM
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