Kong Soo Do
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Called Kong Soo Do (공수도), its name is composed of the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese characters for "karate-do". In English it means "empty-hand way".
Two of the original five Kwan's used the Kong So Do name. They were "Chosun Yun Moo Kwan Kong Soo Do Bu" which later changed its name to "Jidokwan", and the YMCA Kwon Bop Bu, which later changed its name to Chang Moo Kwan. Jidokwan's founder Chun Sang Sup learned Karate from Gichin Funakoshi.
Kwon Bop Bu/Chang Moo Kwan - founded in 1947 by Byung In Yoon who had studied Chinese kung fu (chu'an-fa, or 'fist law') in Manchuria and Shudokan karate with Kanken Toyama in Japan. Yoon disappeared during the Korean War, but information about him was later recovered by original Changmoo-Kwan student, Kim Pyung-soo in 2005, when he found Yoon Byun-in's family. Yoon's teachings were carried on by his top students Nam Suk Lee(Changmoo-Kwan),Park Chul-hee and Hong Jong-Pyo (both Kangduk-Won).
[edit] See also
http://www.kimsookarate.com/intro/yoon/Byung_In_YoonrevMay3.pdf
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