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A fact from Cho Man-sik appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 April 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:
Note footnote 80. His ultimate fate is not documented. This reference makes it clear we cannot say for certain he was executed.
Mindme (
talk)
14:27, 6 October 2008 (UTC)reply
This is a good point. I appear to have picked up the date 15 October 1950 from the Korean article, and this article should probably be changed. In 2002,
Lankov presumes Cho's death, and relates how this story came to the West.
This recent story speaks of his execution in 1950, though it's not as definitive a source as either of the two books we've listed. Most commentators do seem to accept that he was executed during the Korean War. What do you suggest for this article? Something like "he was thought likely to have been executed", or something else? (I took the liberty of formatting the link in your post, hope you didn't mind; feel free to revert me.) Regards, —
BillCtalk20:51, 6 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Thanks Bill. In the
Koryo Hotel w/u I wrote "When United Nations forces threatened to overrun Pyongyang in October 1950, it is thought he was executed." with a ref to the google book view.
Mindme (
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14:40, 7 October 2008 (UTC)reply
The two sentences in the Legacy section concerning the taekwon-do form named after Cho were removed; I have reinstated them. The text, at only two sentences or (8%), was certainly not disproportionate to the rest of the article. Moreover, in the twenty-first century, this is probably the thing Cho is now most famous for. —
BillCtalk00:47, 12 November 2008 (UTC)reply
The first item under legacy could use a source. The sentence:
The taekwondo form Ko-Dang was named in honour of Cho Man-sik, though it was replaced in a controversial move by the form Juche in the early 1980s