13WKC - Team Finals - USA vs KOR - Taisho

The 13th World Kendo Championships Finals. Team USA vs Team Korea. Taisho Match.

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Sports

Tags:

• Kendo
• 13WKC
• Korea
• USA
• Taisho

[nypchung]

glad Korea finally broker throught and finished on the top. this is a great art/sport. I'm really getting into it.

one other note: our father's generation hold a lot of bitterness towards their neighbors: koreans towards chinese. chinese towards koreans. chinese and koreans and the rest of asia towards japan...etc..

it doesn't matter anymore. let it rest. let's move forward.

[moshman1000]

Kendo is actually Japanese. Kumdo is Korean

[yumidamasi]

茶番。

日本の方が数倍強い。

[edwardchoi22]

i would say somthing but all the other comments really just summarize it up, btw im korean

[kraygbassist]

On a side note,

After Japan, Korea has the longest history with modern Kendo, due to its former status as Japan's colony.

Sure, its called Kumdo there, but with the exception of some etiquette and practice routines (and some unbelievable revisionist origins history in some ultranationalist circles), it is the same damn thing; It has stayed fairly consistent with Kendo, which is why the International Federation of Kendo allows Team Korea to participate in the WKC in the first place.

[kraygbassist]

While we must remember history so as not to repeat its horrors , we, as the inheritors of the future, must not manipulate the past to only perpetuate more hate.

What good will more war and hate do for anyone anyways? "Make amends and move on..." Not as easy as it sounds, I know, but it is because pride gets in the way. NOTHING ELSE.

[kraygbassist]

And Team Korea won this title fair and square. The referees, all esteemed figures in Kendo, no doubt, have deemed them worthy of this honor.

[kraygbassist]

whoops, posted this under my friend's account by accident, sorry buddy

Anyways, what I was saying...

One of kendo's main overarching purposes is to promote friendship between its participants. All you China/Japan/Korea haters have no right to sully this beautiful art with your ill-informed, uneducated bs.

If you hate on any of its participants, then you hate on the art. Practice some kendo, and either you'll respect its qualities or hate it as it defies the very core of your despicable self.