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{{Short description|South Korean martial arts organization}}
{{Infobox martial art school
| logo              = MooDukKwanFist.jpg
| logocaption       = Moo Duk Kwan fist logo, created by Hwang Kee in 1955
| logosize          =
| image             =
| imagecaption      = Sa Bom Steve Sur Grandeza performing a kick. {{Deletable image-caption|Friday, 30 September 2011|date=May 2012}}
| imagesize         = 250px
| name              = Moo Duk Kwan<br>(무덕관)
| aka               =
| date founded      = 1945-11-09
| country           = [[South Korea]]
| founder           = [[Hwang Kee]]<br>(November 9, 1914&ndash;July 14, 2002)
| head              = [[Hwang Hyun-chul]]
| arts              = [[Soo Bahk Do]]{{efn|name="Soobahkdo"|Moo Duk Kwan's style was first promoted as [[Tang Soo Do]]. Hwang Kee started calling the style Soo Bahk Do circa 1957 and in 1995, Hwang Kee officially renamed the art from Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan to Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan.}}
| ancestor schools  =
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| notable pract     =
| website           = http://worldmoodukkwan.com
}}
{{Infobox Korean name
| hangul=무덕관
| hanja=武德館<ref>[https://archive.today/20120530024047/http://kin.naver.com/knowhow/entry.php?d1id=5&dir_id=5&eid=dS5/RAsYC9C55wYtFYC43XCItj1es3o2]</ref>
| mr=Mu Dŏk Kwan
| rr=Mu Deok Gwan
}}

'''Moo Duk Kwan''' is the name of a [[martial art]] organization founded by [[Hwang Kee]] in [[South Korea]] in 1945. Licensed Moo Duk Kwan schools teach [[Soo Bahk Do]], formerly [[Tang Soo Do]] (and earlier 'Hwa Soo Do'). 'Moo Duk Kwan' translates as "School of Martial Virtue".
Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan translates to “the brotherhood and school of stopping inner and outer conflict and developing virtue according to the way of the worthy hand”

==History==
As a child, [[Hwang Kee]] witnessed a man using [[Taekyon]] to defend himself against a large group. The experience later inspired him to develop his own martial art.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.taekkyon.or.kr/en |title=Korea Taekkyon Association |publisher=Taekkyon.or.kr }}</ref> Although the Korea Taekkyon Associate disputes Hwang's story, Hwang says that the man refused to teach him, leaving him to devise his own system based on what he had seen. Traveling between Manchuria and Korea during [[World War II]], Hwang later successfully appealed to Chinese martial arts teacher Yang Kuk Jin for training, fusing together Chinese and Korean martial arts into a form he initially called Hwa Soo Do ("the Way of the Flowering Hand"), altering to Tang Soo Do after the November 9, 1945 opening of a training hall proved unsuccessful. The new name led to greater success.

Hwang Kee further expanded his Moo Duk Kwan school of martial arts after in 1957 he was introduced to the ''[[Muye Dobo Tongji]]'' by a librarian at the Korean National University in Seoul. It referenced the martial arts system of Subak, a bare hands and feet technique.<ref>[http://worldmoodukkwan.com/history.html Brief History of the Moo Duk Kwan. ''World Moo Duk Kwan Official Website''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531082044/http://worldmoodukkwan.com/history.html |date=May 31, 2008 }}</ref> Hwang Kee changed the name of his martial art system to "Soo Bahk Do" on June 30, 1960.

{{blockquote|By 1960, Tang Soo Do was being practiced by almost 75% of all martial artists in Korea, but the art did face challenges particularly in expanding beyond Korea, including attempted mergers into [[Taekwondo]]. However, in spite of these challenges it eventually spread worldwide, with close to 300,000 practitioners.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://fightingdragonspa.com/moo-duk-kwan/|title=Moo Duk Kwan » Fighting Dragons|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-10}}</ref>}} inline, {{Unreliable source?|date=December 2022|certain=y}}{{Dubious|date=December 2022}}

After Hwang Kee died on July 14, 2002, his son [[Hwang Hyun-chul]] (Jin Mun) was named his successor. His appointment was approved unanimously by the Board of Directors of the United States Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation, Inc. as well as other chapters through the world.

==Trademark and schools==
In the [[United States]], "Moo Duk Kwan"<ref>[[United States Patent and Trademark Office|USPTO]] 3023145</ref> and the fist logo<ref>[[United States Patent and Trademark Office|USPTO]] 1446944</ref><ref>[[United States Patent and Trademark Office|USPTO]] 3119287</ref> are federally registered [[trademarks]] of the U.S. Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation<ref>[http://www.soobahkdo.com/ oobahkdo.com]</ref> and "Soo Bahk Do"<ref>[[United States Patent and Trademark Office|USPTO]]  3103190</ref> and the "Soo Bahk Do logo"<ref>[[United States Patent and Trademark Office|USPTO]] 1,811,174</ref> are [[Service mark|service marks]].

== See also ==
*[[Soo Bahk Do]]
*[[Moo Duk Kwan Taekwondo]]
*[[Tang Soo Do]]
*[[Kwan (martial arts)]]
*[[Taekwondo]]

==Notes==
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== References ==
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'''Sources'''
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* History of Moo Duk Kwan By Hwang Kee {{ISBN|0-9631358-7-2}}
* A Modern History of Taekwondo 1999 (Korean) Kyong Myung Lee and Kang Won Sik {{ISBN|89-358-0124-0}}
* [http://www.martialartsresource.com/anonftp/pub/the_dojang/digests/history.html Excerpts from "A Modern History of Taekwondo"]
* Global Taekwondo 2003 (English) Kyo Yoon Lee {{ISBN|89-952721-4-7}}
* A Guide to Taekwondo 1996 (English) Kyo Yoon Lee {{ISBN|89-7500-064-8}}
* Kukkiwon 25th Anniversary Text 1997 (Korean) Un Yong Kim
* Kukkiwon Textbook 2006 (English/Korean) Um Woon Kyu
* [https://www.amazon.com/dp/0897500156 Beginning Moo Duk Kwan Tae Kwon Do Korean Art of Self-Defense Volume 1] by [http://www.ymaa.com/publishing/authors/richard_chun Richard Chun].
{{refend}}
* Hancock, J. and Plyler, J. (2004). The International Tangsoodo Alliance Official Instructor's Manual, Revised Edition. Guthrie, KY: International Tangsoodo Alliance.

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Moo Duk Kwan}}
* [http://moodukkwan.net/ Moo Duk Kwan History]
* [http://worldmoodukkwan.com/ World Moo Duk Kwan]

[[Category:South Korean martial arts]]