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c. 1934–2021. USA. Kim Bok-man (Korean: 김복만; Hanja: 金福萬, [1] (3 December 1934 – 14 August 2021), Father of South East Asia Taekwon-Do was an early pioneer of taekwondo in the 1950s and 1960s in South East Asia, particularly Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Sarawak and Hong Kong.
Website. Official website. Sun-hwan Chung (born May 6, 1940), also known as James Sun-hwan Chung, is one of the highest-ranking Tang Soo Do, Hapkido, and taekwondo grandmasters in the world. [1][2] He is founder of the Moo Sool Do (Martial Arts United) form of martial arts and is president of the World Academy of Martial Arts, LLC. [3]
McCune–Reischauer. Pak YŏnHwan. Park, Yeon-Hwan (born June 29, 1952) is a South Korean Grandmaster of Taekwondo. [1] He currently has earned a ninth-degree black belt and holds the title kwan jang-nim (Grandmaster) under the direction of the Kukkiwon. Park was the undefeated Korean national champion of Tae Kwon Do from 1971 to 1975 and the ...
Park Dong-keun (Korean: 박동근; born c. 1941), also known as D. K. Park, is a South Korean Grandmaster of taekwondo.He holds the title "Grandmaster," [1] [2] the rank of 9th dan in taekwondo, [2] [3] and was Korea's only undefeated taekwondo fighter in more than 200 International championship competition. [1]
9th dan taekwondo. Notable students. Han Cha-kyo, Jhoon-goo Rhee. Nam Tae-hi (Korean: 남태희; Hanja: 南太熙; 19 March 1929 – 7 November 2013) was a pioneering South Korean master of taekwondo [1][2][3][4] and is known as the "Father of Vietnamese Taekwondo". [1] With Choi Hong-hi, he co-founded the "Oh Do Kwan" and led the twelve ...
Edward B. Sell (July 17, 1942 - February 5, 2014) was an American martial arts instructor, and the highest ranking non-Korean practitioner of tae kwon do, holding the honorary rank of 10th degree black belt in the art. Sell founded the U.S. Chung Do Kwan Association.
Kyongwon Ahn, 9th dan (Kukkiwon), is a South Korean taekwondo master who founded the United Taekwondo Association (UTA) [1] in the United States. Ahn was born in 1937 in Keijō, Keiki-dō, Korea, Empire of Japan, [2] and began training in the martial arts began when he was 12 years old. He served an internship with his instructor, Chang Bok Lee ...
b ^ At the 2023 World Championships, athletes from Russia and Belarus in accordance with sanctions imposed following by the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine participated as Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN), their medals were not included in the official medal table.