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Rhee Jhoon-goo (Korean: 이준구; Hanja: 李俊九, January 7, 1932 – April 30, 2018), commonly known as Jhoon Rhee, was a Korean-American taekwondo practitioner. He is widely recognized as the "father of American taekwondo" for introducing the Korean martial art to the United States when he immigrated in the 1950s. [5][6] He was a 10th dan ...
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.
Rank. 9th dan Tae Kwon Do. Son Duk-sung (Korean: 손덕성; Hanja: 孫德成; June 17, 1922 – March 29, 2011) was a martial artist, Grand Master, 9th degree black belt, co-founder of the Korean martial art of Tae Kwon Do, successor of Lee Won-kuk and leader of the Chung Do Kwan school (1950–1959). He was also the chief Instructor of the ...
The original masters of taekwondo is a group of twelve South Korean martial art masters assembled by the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA) in the early 1960s to promote the newly established art of taekwondo. [1][2][3][4][5][6] In alphabetical order following Korean naming conventions, they are: Choi Chang-Keun, Choi Kwang-Jo, Han Cha-Kyo, Kim ...
Chung Do Kwan, created by Won Kuk Lee in 1944, is one of the first of nine schools or kwan teaching Tang Soo Do. Later, the school began to teach what came to be known as taekwondo. [2] This style of Tang Soo Do is known for its overall power and emphasis on kicks to the head.
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 ...
Suh Chong Kang was born September 29, 1929, in Shineuju, North Korea. Kang started his martial arts training in 1938 in Yudo, Su Bahk Do. He later became a student of Tang Soo Do / Kong Soo Do under Lee Won-kuk (Chung Do Kwan Founder) . Kang was a graduate of the first class of Chung Do Kwan black belts. In 1953 Kang founded his own branch of ...
In 1972, Choi joined his family in Oregon and started teaching tae kwon do at the YMCA, Lewis and Clark College and Reed College (Judo - '74-'75), and Sunset High School before opening his own studio in Northeast Portland. [2] Choi's Taekwondo Academy was the second taekwondo school in Oregon. [3]