Changmookwan: The Korean art based upon Chinese Kempo and the Teachings of Toyama Kanken

Changmookwan was founded by the famous taekwondo master Yun Byung-in. As a child Yun traveled with his parents and liven in Manchuria for some time where he studied Chuanfa which he mastered. Later when Yun was in Japan attending Nihon University, he impressed Toyama Kanken with his Kwanbup (Chuanfa) skills. Yun Byung-in became a student of as well as training and exchanged techniques with Toymana Kanken ultimately attaining the rank of 4th degree black belt.

The second most important man in the Changmookwan story was Lee Nam-suk was to become Yun's top student and the first person given permission to teach Yun's style. While Yun Byung-in was in Japan training, the Lee Nam-suk was secretly studying and learning the skills of the martial arts from a copy of “Tote-Jitsu”, the legendary first book on written by Shotokan-ryu's founder Gishin Funakoshi 's

Upon Yun's return to Korea, he begins to teach his art a large gym in Seoul, Korea called Chosen Yunmookwan Judo DoJung, the same place that Jidokwan began. The President of the Yunmookwan gym at that time was Mister Lee Kyuk-sung who was very open minded and allowed other martial artists to teach at the Chosen Yunmookwan.

At the Chosen Yunmookwan, Yun Byung-in was teaching Kwanbup (Kempo or Chuanfa) while at the same time Chun Sung-sup the founder of Jidokwan was teaching Kongsoodo (Karatedo). Chun Il-sup, the real brother of Chun Sung-sup often said that his brother and Yun Byung-in cross-trained so much together that they were often called brothers.

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Childan Sam Naples
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