The taekwondo establishment discarded the old karate kata and introduced newly developed forms to distance and obscure taekwondo from its Japanese karate origins.
The methodology of this article is an extensive literature review of early Korean sources, more recent English and Korean publications, and interviews with expert taekwondo practitioners. This study will concentrate on the origins and evolution of forms in World Taekwondo (WT), the philosophies presented in connection with these forms, and the relationships that these forms have to sparring. Subsequently, during the early 1970s, the Korea Taek-wondo Association (KTA) discarded the karate kata completely, and since that time, indigenous Korea-developed forms have been used exclusively in training and promotional test.
In early taekwondo training, during the late 1940s and 1950s, the forms (a solo-performance of a practitioner of a sequence of movements) used in training consisted mostly of Japanese karate kata however, during the 1960s, a variety of new forms, and sets of forms, were developed to escape the karate association.
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