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Lee Won-kuk (Korean: 이원국; Hanja: 李元國; April 13, 1907 – February 2, 2003) was a South Korean martial artist, who founded Chung Do Kwan.He introduced karate to Korea in 1944, creating his own style known as Tang Soo Do Chung Do Kwan style, which became Taekwondo as of 1955; instilling a profound influence in this martial art through teaching future masters and authoring the book ...
Kang Suh Chong started his martial arts training in 1938 in Yudo, Su Bahk Do, and later became a student of Tang Soo Do/Kong Soo Do under Lee Won Kuk (Chung Do Kwan Founder) and is a graduate of the first class of Chung Do Kwan Black Belts. In 1953 he founded his own branch of Tae Kwon Do and named it Kuk Mu Kwan.
Son Duk-sung (Korean: 손덕성; Hanja: 孫德成; June 17, 1922 – March 29, 2011) was a martial artist, Grand Master and ninth-degree black belt, co-founder of the Korean martial art of taekwondo, successor of Lee Won-kuk and leader of the Chung Do Kwan school (1950–59).
Song Moo Kwan (송무관) – first of the original kwans, founded in Kaesong on March 20, 1944 by Ro Byung Jik (노병직), who had studied karate under Gichin Funakoshi along with Chung Do Kwan founder Lee Won-kuk in Japan. Chung Do Kwan (청도관) – second kwan dojang in Korea founded in September 1944 by Lee Won Kuk (이원국).
Chung Yong-taek (Korean: 정용택, March 3, 1921 – November 11, 2006) was a martial artist, 9th degree black belt in taekwondo, belonging to the first Chung Do Kwan school Black Belt promotion and pupil of Lee Won-kuk. He was also the first Korean instructor in open a Chung Do Kwan school outside Korea, in Japan on 1952, and vice president ...
A Hong Kong court convicted four people Thursday for rioting over the storming of the city's legislative council building at the height of the anti-government protests more than four years ago.
The new monument is located less than two miles from the site where the towering 61-foot Lee statue had stood for more than a century. Statues honoring the leaders of the Confederacy, the pro ...
Yun Dukan (Moo Duk Kwan → Oh Do Kwan → KTA → ITF → D.A.Yun's TKD) ㅡ South Korean Taekwondo Pioneer and Grandmaster who, with the encouragement of Choi Hong Hi, introduced his style of Taekwon-Do to the United States of America in 1968 and founded the first Taekwon-Do school of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [58] [59] Kim Ki-whang (WT) Sang ...