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Wichita KS 67207
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Grand Master Kim....
Grand Master Kim was born, January 11, 1949, in Nowari, South Korea. His training in Martial Arts began at the age of 12 under Grand Master Ahn at the Yangju Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan School. Grand Master Kim moved to Tongduch'on as an assistant instructor on the US Army 2nd Infantry Base located there. Grand Master Kim left Korea in May of 1975 to join Master Han in Wichita as a 5th Dan Kukkiwon Instructor. Grand Master Kim spent 7 years with Han's Taekwondo School until Grand Master Han left for California; the school was then renamed Kim's Academy of Taekwondo in 1982.
Grand Master Kim received is 8th Dan Kukkiwon Certificate in 1994 after travelling to the World Taekwondo Federation in the Gangnam-gu district of Seoul, South Korea.
Finding a home in Wichita....
When Master Kim first began teaching in Kansas, most of his new students wanted to learn Taekwondo for the same reason he had, Master Kim said, to be the best fighter. But in twenty years the emphasis has changed. "Now people want confidence," he said. "Top boy" is second.
Another change is that there are far more women taking classes than before, and Master Kim says that he welcomes the increase in female students. "It's good for guts and builds confidence and mental strength," he said, nothing that when he was a boy, few girls trained because their parents discouraged it. Those who did make it to class had to "sneak," he said.
However, after Taekwondo became the official national sport in 1971, it was taught to both boys and girls in public schools. When asked what his future goals are, Master Kim answers modestly. "To find a better way of teaching", he said "and to have a healthy school."
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