Pioneers
A Glance Information To Our Young Members
Extracted from Netherland ITF website:-
Pioneers
General Choi Hong Hi
General Choi Hong Hi was born on November 9th, 1918, in the Hwa Dae Myong Chun District of Korea. At the age of twelve he started to study Taek Kyon, an ancient Korean method of fighting...Read more...
Park Jung Tae
Grand master Jung Tae Park, a fearless perfectionist, was revered throughout the international tae kwon do community. Among the first instructors to carry the national Korean sport ...Read more...
Rhee Ki Ha
When I was a kiddy there was no Taekwon-do at all. As you know, in Korean history we were all under the Japanese empire for more than 36 years. My father did Judo and I followed him...Read more...
Hwang Kwang Sung
Grandmaster Hwang was born in Teagu Korea. Taegu is the third largest city south of the 38th parallel, and is south east of Seoul and north of Busan. At the age of eleven, he started his martial...Read more...
Charles Sereff
It takes 30 years to achieve the distinction of 8th Dan Black Belt. Master C.E. "Chuck" Sereff reached this goal in 1990, a few years short of his 60th birthday. Along the way to becoming a Master...Read more...
Park Jong Soo
Master Park was born in 1941 in Chung-Nam, Korea. He holds a 9th Dan black belt in Tae Kwon-Do. At the age of 14, and since then, he has been the instructor of the Police Training Centre...Read more...
Nam Tae Hi
Grand Master Nam Tae Hi began his martial arts training in 1946. Every day after school he would go to the Dojang to train, not returning home until almost midnight. He did this 5 days a week...Read more...
Kim Ung Chol
At the end of 1985 Master Kim Ung Chol came to Bulgaria. He was the first Taekwon-do ITF master to visit our country and he established the foundations of this martial art in Bulgaria...Read more...
Choi Jung Hwa
Grandmaster Choi Jung Hwa was promoted to XI Degree on the 50th Anniversary of Taekwon-Do, April 11th 2005. Choi Jung Hwa was born on Cheju Island, Korea in 1954. His earliest...Read more...
Kong Young Il
A first-generation student of General Choi, Hong Hi, the Father of Taekwon-Do, Grand Master Kong, Young Il's Taekwon-Do roots are in the Oh Do Kwan in Won Joo, Korea. Today...Read more...
Sabree Salleh
Dr. Sabree Salleh is one of a few non-Korean who was personally trained by the late General Choi Hong Hi - The Founder of Taekwon-Do, and Past-President of International Taekwon-Do...Read more...
Hwang Ho Yong
Mr. Hwang Ho Yong was born on May 11th, 1956 in small town Sin-Uiz in DPRK more accurately near Chinese borders. He has started to do Taekwon-do at the age of 13 but at first he...Read more...
Phap Lu
Phap Lu was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1956. At the age of 13, he started Taekwon-Do training and received his 1st Degree Black Belt at the age of 15. He then became an Instructor...Read more...
