GREEN

BELT

Meaning of the Green Belt

Growth of power

The color of the growing things reaching upward.

Character Word

1st Level Green - Discipline

The ability to follow rules in a way that is beneficial to my wellbeing, even when my impulses encourage me to do other things.

2nd Level Green - Respect

Accepting that other people are worthy of care and compassion, treating people who are different with equal kindness, and listening to and obeying people with more authority and knowledge than me.

Patterns

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1st Level Green - Won Hyo

28 movements, right foot returns

Won-Hyo was the noted Monk who introduced Buddhism to the Silla Dynasty in the year 686 A.D.

2nd Level Green -  Yul Gok

38 movements, left foot returns

Yul-Gok is the pseudonym of the great philosopher and scholar Yi (1536-1584), nicknamed the "Confucius of Korea".  The 38 movements of this pattern refer to his birthplace on the 38th latitude and the (+) diagram represents scholar.