Seme in Korean

[b8amack]

My Japanese-Korean dictionary just translates this as "Konggyok" or "attack" in English, but even though I have a dabbler's grasp at best of the concept, it seems to me that when one talks of seme, we're talking about a lot more than just the attack itself. I want to talk to my sabumnim about seme, but I just don't know the right words, and she doesn't use Japanese terms ever. Any idea what the commonly used phrase is for the concept?

[CESAREKIM]

Seme is a hard one to translate in Korean. A lot of my Korean friends (I'm talking the 6 dan and up guys) just use the word seme although a lot of the 5 dan and below guys have NO idea what it is as they often rely on sheer speed. You might want to talk about gisae (the shape of your ki).

HTH...

[Daniel Sullivan]

As you can see, pharmacudical spam has struck again. I have done a bit of deleting.

Daniel

[William Yoo]

I heard it translated as kongsae.

[b8amack]

What about Kiwi (기위 -> 氣位) ? Or is that kigurai?

I have heard gisae used a lot though, recently, Cesare, thanks. Specifically in 6bon, when Sondo/Shidachi moves down on hudo/uchidachi's sword before retreating to chasangdan/hidari jodan.

[Daniel Sullivan]

Spammers seem to love this particular thread. It has been spammed more than any other thread on this site.

Daniel

[Bruce W Sims]

Hmmmm.......

I know you are talking about KENDO/KUMDO terminology. In GEOM-BEOP we use this:

Kan kyok**:***

Interval: optimal space between combatants at which to either execute offensive techniques or maintain defenses.*
( 간격 [ 間隔 ] ) also: kan hap (간합 )

Is this of any help?

Best Wishes,

Bruce

[b8amack]

lol... I just realized why the pharmaceutical companies love this thread. Add an n to seme! I wonder if KW has this problem?