Kim Ki Whang

Kim Ki Whang (1920 – September 16, 1993), likewise referred to in the United States as Ki Whang 

Kim, was a Korean hand to hand fighting grandmaster. He was Chairman in the US of the Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan Association, Chairman of the US Olympic Taekwondo group 1988 and bound together a few Korean hand to hand fighting into the general style of taekwondo. 

Biography

Kim was conceived in Seoul, South Korea in 1920. At the time Korea was involved by Japan. Under their administration hand to hand fighting had been banned subsequent to 1909, however the act of taekkyon was not banned until the year of Kim's birth.

In spite of the Japanese boycott, Koreans still rehearsed hand to hand fighting in mystery, and Kim could concentrate on Judo at the Kodokan from 1931, winning a Black Belt five years after the fact. The boycott did not reach out to Koreans who lived in Japan, and Kim took in Shudokan Karate from its organizer, Kanken Toyama, at Nihon University in Japan. He got to be skipper of the group, earned the handle "Hurricane" and earned a fourth degree Black Belt rank in this style. He additionally went to China for a long time, presumably as a draftee in the Japanese armed force, where he learned kempo and shaolin kung fu.

After graduation from Nihon University in the 1940s, he came back to South Korea and was utilized at the Transportation Administration in Seoul. He wasn't required in hand to hand fighting, however stayed great companions with a senior understudy from the Shudokan, Yoon Byung-In. Upon the administration topple of South Korean President Rhee Syng-man, Kim acknowledged a letter of suggestion from Mooduk-Kwan author, Hwang Kee, to be the Mooduk-Kwan delegate in the United States.

In 1963, he emigrated to the United States, where he stayed for whatever is left of his life. His U.S. understudies included Richard Chun,Albert Cheeks, Michael Warren, James K. Roberts Jr., Chuck Norris, Mitchell Bobrow, John Critzos II, George Thanos, and Pat E. Johnson. He taught more than 25,000 understudies and issued 424 dark belts. He had a spouse and a little girl, and resigned in 1992. Five Grand Masters honored Kim tenth dan dark belt while in the healing center with liver tumor at 73 years old, and passed on 16 September 1993. Kim was held in high respect in the Martial Arts World, more than 650 individuals went to his funeral. Inducted into Taekwondo Hall of Fame 2009 

References

^ Jump up to: a b Black Belt Magazine, January 1994, p. 14, recovered 24 June 2010. 

Hop up ^ Journal of Asian Martial Arts, Volume 6 Issue 1 (1997), p. 33, recovered 24 June 2010. 

Hop up ^ A History of Modern Taekwondo-section 1,retrieved 11 Aug 2010. 

Hop up ^ http://www.kimsookarate.com/commitments/kimKiwhangLegacy/kimkiwhang.pdf 

Hop up ^ Black Belt Magazine, January 1980, p. 84, recovered 14 August 2010.