1906
Song
Duk Ki at the age of thirteen begins to learn Tae Kyon in Korea from
Hue Lim
1909 Japan annexes Korea. Korean's are banned from being able to practice
fighting arts
1929 Nam Tae Hi is
born in Seoul, Korea
1930's Korea Choi Hong Hi "father of Taekwon-do" begins his martial art training
under Han Il Dong, who was trained under Duk Ki Song.
1936 Korea Hwang Kee masters Tae Kyon and Soo Bak Do at the age of twenty-two,
travels to north China to study the "T'ang Method" of Kung Fu.
1937 Choi Hong Hi begins training in Kyoto, Japan under Shotokan instructor
Mr. Kim.
1939 Choi Hong Hi recieves his 1st Dan in Shotokan after two years of intensive
training.
1944 Korea After learning Tae Kyon and Sabak from his neighbors and Shotokan
karate from G. Funakoshi in his college years, Byung Jick Ro, opens
first dojang in Kae-Sung and Kwan Duk
Gung (archery school), which lasted three months due to limited enrollment.
He called his style Song Moo Kwan.
1945 Korea After Korea's liberation Tae Kyon an Sabak resurfaced. Hwang Kee
combines his martial knowlege into Tang Soo Do. Many other martial
arts begins to come to light. Yun Moo
Kwan founded by Sup Chun Sang.
1945 Korea The Chung Do Kwan school the first to have a school and openly
teach a empty hand martial. It was founded by Won Kook Lee
1946 Korea Byung Ro opens second dojang in Kae Sung. this attempt was
unsuccessfull due to the onset of the Korean War
1946 Korea Yun Pyung (aka In Yoon Byung) establishes Chang Moo Kwan at a
YMCA. Chi Do Kwan is founded by Yon Kue Pyang
1949 Choi Hong Hi visits Ft Riley Ground General School in Kansas and
gave a public demonstration on Korean Karate in the USA
1952 Nam Tae Hi gives
demonstration before Korea President Syngman Rhee which results in all soldiers
being mandated to receive training
1953 Nam Tae Hi meets
General Choi Hong Hi in Cheju Island Korea
1953 Byung Ro opens third dojang in Seoul Korea following the Korean War.
This time it is successful
1953 Korea On May 25, nine Grandmasters of the Kwan styles come togther to
form the Kong Soo Do Association
It was the first organization developed
by the Korean Martial Arts Community
1953 Korea Oh Do Kwan is founded by Hong Hi Choi
1955 Korea Conference of masters on April 11, merges the Korean Arts and
kwans, they decide to call the unified arts Tae Soo Do
1956 Jhoon Rhee arrives in Texas and teaches the first American class in
Tae Kwon Do
1957 Korea Korean masters change name of unified art Tae Soo Do to "Tae Kwon
Do"
1958 USA Jhoon Rhee open school and begins teaching Taekwondo in the US
1958 Hwang Kee Kee, founder of Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan withdraws his membership
fomr the Kong Soo Do Association and establishes the
Korean Tang Soo Do Association
1959 Choi Hong Hi becomes the president of the Oh Do Kwan
1959 Nam Tae Hi
and a small contingent become one of the first ambassadors of Taekwon-do.
At the direction General Choi they traveling
to Vietnam and Taiwan
1960 Master Woo Jong Lim created Tae Kwon Do
Championships,
the first ever held in Korea
Choi Keun Chang
wins the 1st Tae Kwon Do
[Oh Do Kwan] Championship in Pattern
and Sparring in Won Ju, Kang Won Do, Korea
1960's Il Joo Kim, Moo Myung Yun, Byung Yul Lee, Joon Pyu Choi, Yang Kyu
Yu, Chang Jin Kang, Hin Il Chang, Tae Ryang Chang, begin
Song Moo Kwan dojangs throughout
the USA
1961 June 25th Korean Taekwondo Association was formed and was recognized
on that date by the Korean Amateur Athletic Union
1961 October Taekwondo became an official event at the 43rd Annual
National Athletic meet
1961 Sihak Henry Cho opens first "commercial" Tae Kwon Do school in
the USA
1963 Choi Keun Chang
wins the First Korean Tae Soo Do (Tae Kwon Do, Tang Soo Do and Kong Soo Do)
Full Contact Heavy-Weight
Championship in the 3rd/4th/5th/
Degree Black Belt Division in February
1964 Woo Yup Yang
(a current member of the World Taekwondo Aliance) becomes head
instrutor of Chung Do Kwan in Korea
1964 Kim Pyung Soo becomes the first Korean correspondent (reporting
from Korea) for Black Belt Magazine
1964 Jhoon Rhee becomes first Korean Instructor to host a national
championships in America (Grand Champion was Pat Burleson)
1965 Henry Cho becomes the second Korean instructor to host a national
championships in America entitled the "All American Open Kung-fu,
Karate,Taekwondo Championships" -
Grand Champion was Thomas LaPuppet,a Japanese (Shotokan) stylist
1962 Richard Chun begins teaching in New York
1962 Haeng Ung Lee arrives in U.S. and begins teaching in Omaha, NE
1964 Canada Chong Lee introduces Taekwondo to Canada. (Montreal, Quebec)
His first blackbelt instructors were brothers Ray and Stan
Nikiel
1965 Korean Taekwondo Association became the official name of the Taekwondo
governing body in Korea.
The six major schools represented were
Ji Do Kwan, Moo Do Kwan, Chang Moo Kwan, Song Moo Kwan, Chung Do Kwan, and
Han Moo Kwan
1966 Choi Hong Hi resigns as the President of the Korean Taekwondo
Association. He founds the International Taekwon-do Federation
in Seoul, Korea encouraged by Kim Bok
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1968 Cho Sang Min becomes
head instructor of the International Taekwon-do Federation Training Center
(ITF) in Korea until 1970
1970 Cho Sang Min moves
to and introduces Taekwon-do to Brazil. He serves asPpresident and
Head Instuctor of the Brazil Taekwon-do
Federation until 1988 at which time he
moves to California
1969 Haeng Ung Lee founds the American Taekwondo Association (ATA)
in Omaha, Nebraska
1970 Ken Min (University of California-Berkeley) becomes 1st president
of the National Collegiate Taekwondo Association until 1986
1971 Master Dong Keun Park 6
time Korea national opens school in Jersey City,USA. During this period a
considerably large number of
Korean Taekwondo instructors arrive and
open schools all across the USA
1971-72 Numerous tournaments spring up during this period hosted by Korean
instructors Ki Whang Kim, II Joo Kim, Kim Pyung Soo,
Ki Chung Kim, Mahn Suh Park, Kang Rhee,
Howard Lee and others. A young Mike Warren exhibit supremacy in these
tournaments.
1972 Nam Tae Hi moves to Chicago
1972 Construction of Kukkiwon was completed - November 30th
1973 The USTF is founded with a mandate to teach and promote TaeKwon-Do
according to the guidance of the late General Choi Hong Hi
1973 Nam Tae Hi opens dojang
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1973 Young II Kong and
International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) Demonstration Team Members, along
with General Choi, visit more
than 127 countries as part of ongoing
ambassadorship for Taekwon-Do
1973 World Taekwondo Federation is formed in Seoul, Korea which hosts
first World Taekwondo Championships
Richard Chun and David Kim are USA Coaches.
Kyung Ho Min is Team Manager. Mike Warren wins individual silver medal,
Joseph
Hayes and Albert Cheeks win individual
bronze while USA team garners overall silver.
1974 International Taekwon-do Federation (ITF) hosts it's first World
Championships in Montreal Canada (Charles Sereff serves as USA Coach)
USA team member John Holloway places gold
in Heavyweight sparring and 2nd in Breaking
1974 Korea Chung Bong poomse developed by Jay Hyon are first performed, adding
it to Song Moo Kwan's many other poomse, which included
Pinan, Chang Hon, and Tae Guek
1974 1st Asian Taekwondo Championships were held in Seoul, Korea
on October 18th
1975 USA AAU Taekwondo Association is formed
1975 First National AAU Taekwondo Championships in held at Yale University
in New Haven ,Connecticut
Gerard Robbins becomes the first
athlete to win dual gold medals in sparring (heavyweight ) and forms
1975 The WTF was affiliated to the General Association of International
Sports Federations [GAISF]
1975 2nd World Taekwondo Championships is held in Seoul, Korea with
first official USA national team participating.
Dong
Keun Park student Dennis Robinson becomes the first official AAU national
team member to medal (bronze) in WTF sponsored
world championship
1976 USA Hee Sang Ro moves from Korea to North America
1976 The International Military Sports Council [CISM] adopted Taekwondo
as its 23rd official sport for the
World Military Championships
on April 9th
1977 3rd World Taekwondo (WTF) Championships is held in Stuttgard, Germany.
USA team member John Holloway wins bronze
becoming the first athlete in history to
medal in both ITF and WTF world championship events
1978 Inaugural meeting of the Pan American Taekwondo Union held on the occasion
of the 1st Pan American Taekwondo Championships
held in Mexico City, Mexico.
USA Team members win overall gold during Sept 17-22nd
1978 2nd I.T.F. World Championships is held in Oklahoma City, USA - Puerto
Rico's Benny Rivera becomes the first Latin American
to win a world Taekwon-do Championship
1978 2nd National AAU Taekwondo Championships is held in Howard University
in Washington D.C.
1978 USA team participates in first PreWorld Games held in Seoul, Korea
1978 USA team participates in 1st Pan Am Taekwondo Championships held in
Mexico, City
1979 African Taekwondo Union was inaugurated in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on the
occasion of the 1st African Taekwondo
Championships April 10-12,
1979 4th National Taekwondo Championships is held in Dayton, Ohio USA
1980 Choi Keun Chang designs
the ITF Uniform Logo. Advised Gen. Choi not to take ITF Tae Kwon Do Demonstration
Team to North Korea
1980 USA Jay Hyon retires from teaching and passes it over to Hee Sang Ro,
the sone of Byung Jick Ro
1980 Amaerican Taekwondo (ATA) becomes the first martial arts
organization in the USA to introduce a
centralized computer record keeping
system
1981 Gen. Choi Hong Hi traveled to Queensland, Australia, accompanied
by Choi Chang Keun, to declare, open the first Pacific Area
Taekwon-Do Championships
1982 General Choi Hong Hi formed the North America Taekwon-Do Federation
in Toronto, Canada
1985 General Choi publishes the Encyclopedia of Taekwon-Do
1986 First World Cup Taekwondo Championship was held in Colorado Springs,
Colorado - July 3rd
1986 Yong Chin Pak (Iowa State University) becomes 2nd president of
National Collegiate Taekwondo Association
1986 First FISU game was held at the University of California at
Berkeley
1987 First Women's World Taekwondo Championships were held in Barcelona,
Spain - October7th
1988 General Choi Hong Hi introduces and teaches Taekwon-do in Moscow,
U.S.S.R. with an ITF demonstration team
1988 Korea Taekwondo is introduced as a demonstration sport in the
Olympics USA's Arlene Limas
and Jimmy Kim win gold
1990 Park Jung Tae and Scott Mcneely organize the Global Taekwon-Do
Federation (GTF)
1990 Haeng Ung Lee hosts first ATA World Championships in the
USA
1992 Barcelona hosts Olympic Games with Taekwondo as a continuing
demonstration sport. USA's Herb Perez wins middleweight gold
1999 Taekwondo Hall of Fame is created in the USA as more persons are practicing
Taekwondo per capita than in any other country
2000 Sydney Australia hosts Olympic Games - Steven Lopez becomes first
American male to win an Official Olympic Medal (gold)
2000 Master Haeng Ung Lee (founder of ATA) passes away in
October
2002 Park Jung Tae president of the Global Taekwon-Do Federation
(GTF) passes away. His wife Linda Park beomes president
2002 Scott McNeely
forms the World Taekwon-Do Alliance after the death of Grand Master Park
Jung Tae.
2002 General Choi Hong Hi passes away in his homeland North Korea
2003 Yong II Kong
co-founds the International Ch'Ang-Hon Taekwon-Do Federation
2004 Athens, Greece hosts Olympic Games - Nia Abdallah becomes first
American female to win an Official Olympic Medal (bronze)
2006 Yong II Kong assumes the role of president of the World Taekwondo
Alliance (WTA)
2006 Taekwondo Hall of Fame receives official registered trademark
status from the USPTO (first time in the world)
2007 Rex Hatfield becomes 3rd president of National Collegiate Taekwondo
Association
2007 Inaugural official Taekwondo Hall of Fame
induction ceremony and banquet
is held in USA attended by pioneers
Great Grandmaster
Nam Tae Hi,
GM Kim Bok Man, GM Rhee Ki Ha,
GM Choi Keun Chang,
GM Park Dong Keun,
GM Kim Pyung Soo,
GM Cho Sang Min,
GM Young II Kong, GM
Jhoon Rhee, GM Roy Washington, GM Mounir Ghwari, GM David Kim, Joseph
Hayes and USA team members that competed
in the 1st World Taekwondo Championships held in Seoul, Korea in 1973.
Others
attended who were inducted along with
the above included Master John
Hollway who won gold at the 1st ITF World Championships
held in Montreal, Canada in 1974.
Legendary USA fighters and pioneers from the early 60's and 70's who were
inducted included
Allen Steen,
Mitchell Bobrow, Skipper Mullins,
and Joe Corley.
2009 2nd official Taekwondo Hall of Fame Ceremony chaired by Dr. GM
Tae Yun Kim honors General Choi Hong Hi, GM Kang Suh
Chong, GM Dr. Tae Yun Kim, GM Ki Whang
Kim, GM Park Jong Tae, GM Byung, Moo Lee, Master Chew Teck Seong,
GM Chong Soo Lee, Master Miroslav Brezan,
Master Marcia Hall, Master Sunny Graff, Master George Thanos, Master Dennis
Robinson, Master Han Won Lee, Master Alain
Dumaine and others from Austria, South Africa, Nigera, Mali, Argentina,
Peru and
elsewhere.
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