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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.
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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). He was also the chief Instructor of the South Korean Army and the 8th ...
Hwang, Jang-lee: 9th dan: 1944– Korea Hwang took Taekwondo lessons from age 14 and achieved his 7th dan (rank) black belt. In 1965 at age 21, Hwang became a martial arts instructor for the Korean and South Vietnamese Armies, specializing in taekwondo. In January 2003, Hwang received his 9th dan black belt in taekwondo.
There’s a new Karate Kid in town. The newest installment in the martial-arts franchise has found its new star: American Born Chinese‘s Ben Wang, who will play the lead character opposite Ralph ...
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According to Linda Lee Cadwell, Bruce Lee's wife, Lee's teaching of Chinese martial arts to white people made him unpopular with Chinese martial artists in San Francisco. Wong contested the notion that Lee was fighting for the right to teach whites [4] as most of his students were Chinese. [5]