The Korea Hapkido Federation is the largest, wholly hapkido , governing body for the Korean martial art of hapkido in the world. It is made up of predominantly Korean born students and instructors or those individuals who have directly trained in South Korea. This organization is based in Seoul , South Korea and its president is Oh Se-Lim.
29-743: Ji Han Jae was the founder of the original Korea Hapkido Association (Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe) in 1965. The first president of the Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe was Park Jong-Kyu who was Head of Security Forces for the South Korean president. Later Kim Woo Joong, president of the Dae Woo company was elected president of the KHA. These political connections greatly increased the association's power and influence. The prime movers in this organization were members of Ji's original 'Sung Moo Kwan'. The KHA later grew into
58-730: A demonstration team to Vietnam teaching Korean, US, and Vietnamese troops as well as Special Forces. In 1971 he was promoted to master instructor by the Korea Hapkido Association and became its chief judge for testing and promotions. Kwon immigrated to California in the United States in 1973, first opening a school in Palos Verdes and later in Torrance . There, he and fellow students Kim Chong-sung and Han Bong-soo formed an early hapkido association and worked together to promote
87-521: A school of self-defense. Ji trained in the ancient methods of Korean martial arts known as Sam Rang Do Tek Gi by a man named Taoist Lee. Though this man's identity cannot be confirmed, he is believed to have he trained Ji in meditation , the Korean long staff jangbong (장봉; 長棒)", short staff danbong (단봉; 短棒)" and the unique kicks of Sam Rang Do Tek Gi. In 1959, Ji combined all of his martial arts knowledge and began to teach hapkido . Many people consider Ji
116-528: Is a South Korean hapkido grandmaster known as the founder of Sin Moo Hapkido . He appeared in the 1972 film Game of Death starring Bruce Lee . Born in Andong , Gyeongsangbuk-do , South Korea on October 27, 1936, he began his martial arts training in 1949 under Choi Yong-sool ( Korean : 최용술 ) and reached the rank of eighth dan. Ji trained with Choi until 1956, when he moved to Seoul to open
145-637: Is the founder of Sin Moo hapkido, if not hapkido itself. After Ji moved to the U.S., he attracted a large number of students, especially those keen on his Sin Moo style. He holds several seminars a year in North America, Latin America and Europe and lives in Tucson, Arizona. In 2017, he went to Queens, New York for a reunion with his Hapkido co-star Angela Mao at her restaurant. On his first trip to America, Ji appeared in
174-585: The Korea Hapkido Federation ). After less than a year, Ji relocated to Seoul in 1957 and founded Sung Moo Kwan ( Korean : 성무관 ), which would become an influential kwan , or school of hapkido, producing many important teachers of the art. His first student was Hwang Deok-kyoo ( Korean : 황덕규 ; founder of the Korean Hapkido Association ) followed shortly after by Myung Kwang-sik ( Korean : 명광식 ; founder of
203-587: The Korea Hapkido Federation ). In 1957 Kwon moved to Seoul and continued to study under Master Ji at the first school for the art which was located in the nation's capital. The school was located in the Majang-dong district and among the other students who studied with Kwon there were Hwang Duk-kyu ( Ji's first student in Seoul ), Kang Jong-soo, Myung Kwang-sik , Kim Yong-jin, Lee Tae-jon and shortly afterward Jung Won-son and Lee Dong-koo. The following year, in 1958, when
232-533: The Republic of Korea Hapkido Association (Dae Han Min Gook Hyub Hoe) with the merging of Ji han Jae's 'Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe', Kim Moo-Hong's 'Han Gook Hapkido Hyub Hoe' ( Korean Hapkido Association ) and Myung Jae Nam's 'Han Gook Hapki Hoe' ( Korean Hapki Association ) in 1973. Choi Dae-Hoon was elected president of the association with Ji Han Jae serving as senior vice president. By 1983, Oh, See Lim, with many of
261-996: The kicking methods they had both learned, they finalized the kicking curriculum for hapkido, significantly expanding it to include kicks to higher targets and spinning and jumping kicks, none of which were originally part of Choi's system. In addition, Ji's original Sung Moo Kwan ( Korean : 성무관 ) shared space with people who trained in other arts including Western boxing . Ji and his senior students developed tactics for dealing with boxing, tang soo do , taekwondo and judo and incorporated them into Ji's curriculum. Leaving Daegu for his hometown of Andong , Ji opened his first school, Anmoogwan ( Korean : 안무관 ), in 1956, still calling his art yukwonsul at this time. His earliest students from this period were Kwon Tae-man ( Korean : 권태만 ; who teaches in California today), Yoo Young-woo ( Korean : 유영우 ) and Oh Se-lim ( Korean : 오세림 , former president of
290-576: The KHF is still run mostly by students of Ji's original Sung Moo Kwan. In 1984, Ji Han-jae moved to the United States and founded Sin Moo Hapkido ( Korean : 신무 합기도 ). Before he left Korea, his close friend Myung Jae-nam , the head of the International H.K.D Federation, awarded Ji the rank of 10th dan . Ji now goes by the title DoJu Ji. Doju ( Korean : 도주 ; 道主) implies founder as Ji
319-540: The Korea-based International Hapkido Federation and Hankido ). Around this time, Ji began to use the name hapkido to promote the art, shortened from the original hapki yukwonsul ( Korean : 합기 유권술 ; 合氣柔拳術) name employed at the first school run by Choi Yong-sool and Seo Bok-seob in Daegu in 1951. In 1961, Kim Moo-hong came to visit Ji and they developed many of the kicking techniques
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#1732880691272348-565: The Republic of Korea Hapkido Association. He renamed the organization Daehan Hapkido Hyub Hwe ( Korean : 대한 합기도 협회 ), a name used in one of hapkido's former organizations that Ji had headed and Oh had been a founding member of. The Korea Hapkido Federation (KHF) became the preferred rendering in English and remains one of the most influential of the many hapkido organizations in Korea. To this day,
377-504: The United States in Torrance, California , and has been featured in many magazine articles promoting the art. Kwon was born in Andong in what is now South Korea . His first exposure to the martial arts was at the age of seven, when he began studying taekwondo . During that period of time, following the Korean War , Korea was in a period of rebuilding its physical and cultural landscape. Formal dojangs , had not yet been constructed. Thus,
406-615: The World Hapkido Federation), Lee Tae-jun and Kang Jeong-soo. In 1958, students Kim Yong-jin ( Korean : 김용진 ), Jeong Won-seon ( Korean : 정원선 ; Retired 2007-taught in Rockford, Illinois ), Han Bong-soo (of Billy Jack movie fame and founder of the International Hapkido Federation), Choi Sea-oh (First man to teach hapkido in the U.S.) and Myung Jae-nam ( Korean : 명재남 ; Founder of
435-469: The art is known for. In 1963, Ji was a founding member of the first attempt to create a large organization to include hapkido. Called the Korean Kido Association (Daehan Kidohoe; Korean : 대한 기도회 ) Choi Yong-sool was elected the first titular chairman with the organization's charter constitution authored by Ji, Choi and Kwon Jang. The association's purpose was to promote martial arts in
464-478: The art was still using the name Hapki Yu Kwon Sool. This was the first dojang , or martial arts school, that Master Ji opened and so the practitioners there, along with those who started training at Suh Bok Sup's Yu Kwon Sool dojang in Daegu, were among the first to train in the art. The school was called the An Moo Kwan. Some of Kwon's fellow students at that time were Yu Yong-woo and Oh Se-lim (future president of
493-545: The bodyguards at the presidential Blue House. In 1979, however, President Park Chung Hee was assassinated and most of those close to Park resigned, including his presidential bodyguards and their martial arts instructors like Ji. In the ensuing power struggle, many of those in prominent positions under Park found themselves out of work, power or influence. In many cases, they were singled out as targets for legal action, justified or not. In one case, wealthy businessmen made financial contributions to martial arts organizations per
522-557: The country's security forces. Unhappy with his lack of input in the Daehan Kidohoe, with political connections and an ever-growing support from his Sung Moo Kwan students, he formed his own organization, the Korea Hapkido Association ( Korean : 대한 합기도 협회 ), with Kim Woo-joong ( Korean : 김우중 ), president of Daewoo Corp., as the association's first head. Later in 1973, Ji sought to consolidate three of
551-476: The film Game of Death with Bruce Lee . Ji opted not to appear in the additional footage shot for the 1978 version of the film. He also appeared in Hapkido (aka Lady Kung Fu ) with Angela Mao . Kwon Tae-man Kwon Tae-man (born 1941) was an early Korean hapkido practitioner and a pioneer of the art, first in Korea and then in the United States . He formed one of the earliest dojang's for hapkido in
580-505: The first to use the term to refer to the art as well as the symbol of the eagle to represent hapkido. Regardless, part of the kicking techniques used in many styles of hapkido is marked by changes implemented by Ji and Kim Moo-hong ( Korean : 김무홍 ; aka Kim Moo-woong or Kim Moo-hyun), also a student of Choi. After studying with Choi, Kim went to a Buddhist temple and learned a kicking art there. Traveling to Seoul in 1961, he lived and trained with Ji for eight months and, by implementing
609-402: The founder of hapkido, while others credit his teacher Choi, who referred to his art as yawara ( Korean : 야와라 ; 柔) or yukwonsul ( Korean : 유권술 ; 柔拳術)". It is commonly claimed by his students that Ji was the first to use the name hapkido for the techniques he was teaching at that time. Choi's first student Seo Bok-seop, however, said in a 1980 interview that Jung Moo Kwan was
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#1732880691272638-681: The larger hapkido organizations that had grown over the years by merging his body with the Korean Hapkido Association, led by his contemporary Kim Moo-hong, and the Korea Hapki Association, headed by one of his former senior students, Myung Jae-nam, to form the large and influential Republic of Korea Hapkido Association (Daehan Min Kuk Hapkido Hyub Hwe; Korean : 대한민국 합기도 협회 ). Ji Han-jae's political career began to rise quickly after he started teaching hapkido to
667-403: The norm at the time, but several of the contributions were not properly accounted for. Ji and his organization were charged with tax fraud. Though generally viewed as not guilty, he was given a prison term of one year. The judge in the case later explained that it was beyond his control, saying that if Ji didn't go to prison on this minor charge, he would've been charged with other offenses until he
696-551: The original founding members of the association departing, renamed the association by the first organizational name used by Ji, the Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe. With a new preferred English rendering, the new Korea Hapkido Federation was born. A list of people who were or are prominent members of the Korea Hapkido Federation: Ji Han Jae Ji Han-jae ( Korean : 지한재 ; Chi Hon-tsoi)
725-490: The public school system and to police officers and government officials. Ji was highly instrumental in organizing this group but Choi appointed another of his top students, Kim Jeong-yoon ( Korean : 김정윤 ), to a position above Ji, greatly diminishing his influence. By 1965, Ji was hapkido instructor for the presidential guard at the Blue House and grew acquainted with Park Jong-kyoo ( Korean : 박종규 ), chief of
754-639: The school moved to the Joongbooshijang, the central market area of the city, Kwon's fellow students were Choi Seo-oh (first hapkido teacher in the U.S.), Myung Jae-nam (the Founder of the International Hapkido Federation in Korea and later Hankido ) and Han Bong-soo (who would become one of the foremost promoters of the art abroad.) Although Kwon started training earlier than many of the senior hapkido people, such as Master Bong Soo-han , he
783-537: The taekwondo classes Kwon attended were taught in warehouse and in fields. At the age of seven Kwon found himself to be little and weak. Even after studying taekwondo for almost three years, he realized he could not compete with the larger boys around him by fighting with taekwondo's aggressive styling. He began to look for other forms of the martial arts to satisfy his specific needs." In 1956 he began his study of hapkido with Ji Han-jae in Andong. At this point in history
812-413: Was sent to prison for more serious offenses. Ji's philosophical view on the matter was that he found it worthwhile to experience a year in prison and learn about a side of life few experience. He added that he further developed the spiritual side of his sinmoo (higher mind) hapkido concept while meditating in prison. Oh Se-lim, one of the earliest students of the art under Ji, was elected president of
841-453: Was younger and therefore initially was given fewer responsibilities than his older colleagues. Over time however his position grew within the largest hapkido association of the time, the Korea Hapkido Association . In 1964 he opened his first hapkido dojang in Incheon where he instructed U.S. Army personnel stationed there. In 1967 Kwon was sent by the Korean Hapkido Association to be part of
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