Director, International Martial Arts Research Institute
2002 to present
Initiate and collaborate national and international study of martial
arts.
Coordinator, Pacific Rim Academic Affairs PED,
Coordinator, Pacific Rim Sports Development, Rec Sports Department
Hosted scholars, coaches, administrators from overseas to the Department
of Physical Education
and Recreational Sports. Initiated and hosted Pacific Rim Academic Symposiums
and Certification
Program in collaboration with the Seoul National University and the American
College of Sports Medicine.
Director, UC Martial Arts Program
UC Berkeley won all but four (out of thirty) National Collegiate
Taekwondo
Championship Team Titles and trained national, world and Olympic taekwondo
athletes.
Hosted local, regional, national and world taekwondo and other martial
arts tournaments
(over 100) including 7th FISU World University Taekwondo Championships.
Hosted visiting taekwondo, judo and other martial arts
teamsâ visits to US and Berkeley
campus; hosted local, regional, national and international academic symposiums
until
program was expanded and delegated to the IMARI in 2002.
Faculty, Physical Education Department
Taught primarily martial arts related classes, including taekwondo,
as a fulltime tenured
faculty; served as Martial Arts Program Coordinator and remain as Faculty
Emeritus,
Physical Education Program.
Sports Administrative and Professional Experience as a Volunteer
-Taekwondo and USOC
US National Collegiate Taekwondo Association -
Founded the NCTA and served as
president, 1970-1972; 1979-1986; organized the national championship, selected
national team members
to the world university taekwondo championships. Participated in all world
university championships. Hosted
four national collegiate championships, the latest in 2004.
United States Taekwondo Governing Body - I spearheaded
the founding of the official
taekwondo national organization of the AAU of USA and served as its first
and second term president.
Served as was editor of its taekwondo quarterly publication and Chairman
of the Instructor Certification
Committee. Successfully organized the 3rd World Taekwondo Championship,
Chicago, Illinois,1977.
Served as US Team Manager and Adviser for the US National Taekwondo
Team including the Barcelona
Olympics. A Senior Advisory Board Member and Chairman, Hall of Fame
Committee of the US
Grandmasters Society.
Pan Am Taekwondo Union - Spearheaded the founding
Pan Am Taekwondo Union and served as
Secretary General, Technical Director and briefly as president. Organized
five North American
Championships and two Pan Am Taekwondo Championships.
World Taekwondo Federation â I participated
in all world taekwondo championships, and was an
official delegate from the USA to the 1st Organizing Assembly of the World
Taekwondo Federation in
1973. Served as Member of the International Evaluation Committee, Seoul
Olympics, 1988. Served as
Public Relations Committee member, Chairman of the University Committee,
1979-2005. Currently
serving as Chairman, Legislative Committee and Executive Committee
Member.
USOC Served as Acting Executive Committee Member, Educational
Council Member, and member
of Games Preparation and Service Committee. As a member of the Education
Committee, we
recommended all aspects of educational program development and selection
of delegates to the IOA
(International Olympic Academy). As a member of the Games Preparation
and Service Committee,
we mandated policy of the team selection process, training and
participation in the Pan Am and Olympic
Games.
FISU - World University Sports Federation
Spearheaded the recognition of taekwondo as an official
sports program in FISU; served as Taekwondo Technical Commissioner
of FISU from the 2nd FISU
World Championship; Technical Supervisor of eight world university taekwondo
championships and two
Summer Universiades - Daegu, Korea ; Izmir, Turkey; Valencia Spain,
2006; Bangkok, Thailand, 2007.
Publications and Papers Presented - Presented approximately
500 lectures throughout career in
martial arts and sports related topics at local, regional, national and
international conventions and
universities including the 1991 AAHPERD Convention, 1994 Centennial Olympic
Congress, Paris,
France; the Korean Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea, 1997. Published
Taekwondo Instructors
Handbook, FISU Taekwondo Handbook, College Taekwondo and Other Martial
Arts Handbook,
UC Martial Arts Monograph, US Taekwondo Journal; articles published
in numerous national and
international martial arts magazine and physical education publications
of JOHPERD, QWEST,
USOC Academy and Koreana.
Taekwondo Training
9th degree black belt from Kukkiwon, 1991; taught taekwondo
in four universities and colleges since
1963; retired International Referee; Certified International Instructor;
4-times Taekwondo Coach of Year
recipient from US National Collegiate Taekwondo Coaches Association.
Chairman of Arbitration Board
for World University Championship (8) and Summer Universiade (2).
- Born 1935, Hwang Hae Province, Korea
- Married, two grown children
- Incheon High School, Incheon, Korea; Korean Yudo College, renamed Yongin
University, Seoul, Korea;
Oglethrope University, Atlanta, Georgia USA; University of Georgia,
Athens, Georgia USA; Chungnam
National University, Daejeon, Korea
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