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Dear readers and friends of Korean martial art Won HwaDo,
From the contents of the issue
Editorial
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The blind men and the elephant 736 miles on the move
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Protocoll 8. European WHD Festival Korean Table Manners
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Impressions from …
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Everybody expects an interesting and solid made Euro pean WonHwaDo magazine. However, the way to a finished is long and hard of work. But also in the future we like to make a readable magazine.
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Therefore we need your articles, reports and much more. Please do not wait until the end of the editorial deadline. Send us your articles and reports as soon as possible. Our magazine lives from these support. We hope that we have succeeded with this issue again to bring a readable magazine among the people. In this sense, I wish you a lot of fun while reading. Lutz Winter, Germany editor in chief
Cover Picture Suwon, martial arts performance
Publisher European WonHwaDo Magazine c/o Lutz Winter Am Eichwinkel 30 04279 Leipzig Germany Phone: +49(0)177 8385393 Fax: +49(0)3222 245 491 3 Email: lutz@wohwado.de
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»« The Blind Men and the Elephant Several citizens ran into a hot argument about God and different religions, and each one could not agree to a common answer. So they came to the Lord Buddha to find out what exactly God looks like. The Buddha asked his disciples to get a large magnificent elephant and four blind men. He then brought the four blind to the elephant and told them to find out what the elephant would „look“ like. The first blind men touched the elephant leg and reported that it „looked“ like a pillar. The second blind man touched the elephant tummy and said that an elephant was a wall. The third blind man touched the elephant ear and said that it was a piece of cloth. The fourth blind man hold on to the tail and described th elephant as a piece of rope. And all of them ran into a hot argument about the „appearance“ of an elephant. The Buddha asked the citizens: „each blind man had touched the elephant but each of them gives a different description of the animal. Which answer is right?“.
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736 miles on the move 736 miles on the move could be a headline for the 8. European WonHwaDo Festival. When you consider that I spent more time in car than on the mats. Sometimes it’s not easy to take a break from your job and family. But finally I had nice experience with old and new friends at the festival.
Lühmann (Germany), master Jand Dzuris (Slovakia), master Han, Hyung Seok (Korea) and master Ryu, Chae Nam (Korea) were be held. During the training the members leraned about Kicking, throwing, locking and wrestle technics from different directions.
Recently about 20 people from Lithuania, Slovakia and Germany arrived at the sports school in Osterburg. Also two masters from Korea joined the festival. Well, everybody could imagine how much energy German WonHwaDo has to put in to have a wellorganized festival. At the end almost everybody was satisfied.
Let’s start from the beginning On June 3rd master Han, Hyong Seok and master Ryu, Chae Nam arrived from a really long journey from Seoul via Tokyo and Helsinki finally in Berlin. I took them from the airport and started to Osterburg sports school. The other participants had finshed their first training when the master cab from Berlin arrived. After a short hello and the rooming there was first meeting Also a lecture about the meaning of the with discussion about the development of WonHwaDo symbol and the dobok was given by WonHwaDo. master Han. The next few days always started with morning exercise and after that lectures by master Jörn 3
Master Jan showed the flowing movement and Association and Date will be in July/August 2015. motions inside of WonHwaDo and master Jörn More information will be published as the come out. taught special technics from grappling. Recently everybody could enlarge his knowledge about WonHwaDo and we hope his understanding about WonHwaDo could be even bigger through the festival.
Finally I’d like to say a big thank you to the organizers from the festival in Germany and also a big bow to the masters who taught and as well the participants. Without them we couldn’t have such a nice festival. At the last evening there was a leader meeting again and all masters and instructors discussed about the new webpage for World WonHwaDo federation and the development of the World federation.
With this in mind we looking much forward to see you next year in Slovakia and we try to understand more about our beautiful martial art WonHwaDo.
It was a really grueling discussion about the development but finally a compromise could be made because everybody agreed that the international organizations like to support the World WonHwaDo Federation. More details about the decisions which were made in Osterburg you could find inside the protocol from the meeting inside this magazine. Also the place for the next European WonHwaDo Festival has been decided. The 9. European WonHwaDo festival will be held in Slovakia organzied by the Slovakian WonHwaDo
Text and pictures: WonHwaDo Deutschland
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Protocoll from the Leader Meeting at the 8. European WonHwaDo Festival 06. June 2014, 20.45 clock23.00 clock, Osterburg/ Germany Attendes:
Han, Hyung Seok (World WonHwaDo Federation) Ryu, Che Nam (Korea WonHwaDo) Jan Dzuris (Slovakia WonHwaDo) Jaro Satkevic (Latvia WonHwaDo) Lubo Toman (Slovakia WonHwaDo) Marek Durana (Slovakia WonHwaDo) Stefan Kubalos (Slovakia WonHwaDo) Jörn Lühmann (German WonHwaDo) Stefanie Butze (German WonHwaDo) Marcus Frenkel (German WonhwaDo) Lutz Winter (German WonHwaDo)
Topic 1 MembershipFee to support World WonHwaDo Federation Discussion/ Action: all participants agreed that we like to support World WonHwaDo Federation members aged from 16 years pay 1 € per month as membership fee this money will be collected by the national headmaster and send to the World WonHwaDo Federation within 3 months World WonHwaDo Federation will announce the bank account to the national headmasters for the membership fee nonmembers pay 10 percent more for events of the World WonHwaDo Federation Topic 2 Website of the World WonHwaDo Federation as a communication channel Discussion/ Action: allparticipants agreed that we need a new website for World WonHwaDo Federation first this website will be in Korean, English and Japanese maybe later other languages will follow the first content will be: What is WonHwaDo?, What is unique in WonHwaDo? and WonHwaDo history until end of 2014 the content will be send from World WonHwaDo Federation to the webmaster (Jaro Satkevic (Latvia) and Marcus Frenkel (Germany) only memberdojangs will be linked on this website when the website is finished the national moderators will be announced Topic 3 how to inform the not taken part master, instructors and dojangs Action: Master Jörn Lühmann inform Austrian WonHwaDo Master Jan Dzuris inform Hungary WonHwaDo Master Han, Hyung Seok inform Japan WonHwaDo, Malaysia WonHwaDo, United Kingdom WonHwaDo and Finland WonHwaDo Instructor Jaro Satkevic inform Lithuania WonHwaDo, Italy WonHwaDo and Brazil WonHwaDo Master Ryu, Che Nam inform Ireland WonHwaDo Master Lutz Winter inform Slovenia WonHwaDo
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Topic 4 next European WonHwaDo Festival Discussion/ Action: the next European WonHwaDo Festival will be held by Slovakian WonHwaDo it will be in summertime (July/ August) the exact date will be announced in time
Circuitword: It was really sucessful discussion and everybody was able to make compromises. We can be proud of our hard work and continue WonHwaDo and the new steps we made. So we are looking much forward to see the results in the near future!
For the protocoll: Lutz Winter, WonHwaDo Deutschland
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Korean Table Manners A list of basic rules of Korean dining etiquette. Politeness is very important to Koreans. There is a lot of value on family meals and drinks. Although some of the older traditions have been relaxed in recent years, the list of Korean table manners etiquette ist still in use today. (1) Set Wait until the oldest person is sitting down before taking your seat at the table. (2) Before the meal Before beginning with the food, especially in someone’s home, it is polite to say that you look forward to the meal. In Korean, the People say: „Jalmukesumnida“, which means: “I’ll eat well“. (3) Beginning of the meal Wait until the oldest person has raised her spoon or chopsticks before you start eating. © Jens Korallus / pixelio.de
(4) During the meal Your never clean your nose at the table! (5) The pace Try to eat at the same time as all others. Here also follow to the older person. (6) Soup and rice bowls During the meal, please don’t keep the bowls with soup or rice. (7) Double Dipping Korean meals have many municipal side dishes. But please touch into these bowls as less as possible. (8) Refill glass Please always fill the glasses of others the first. Again, the oldest person has priority. (9) Alcohol is offered It’s not considered polite to refuse a alcoholic drink, especially from the hand of an elderly person. (10) Accepting food or drink If an older person offers alcohol or a side dish to you, please take the cup with both hands in reception. Source: GermanKorean Foundation
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Impressions from the 8. European WonHwDo Festival 2014