Grandmaster Jong Kim achievements in propagation of Taekwondo World Wide: - Assisted General Choi with the First TAEKWONDO Book. - Appointed as the first Taekwondo Instructor to Instructors for the Minister of Defense (Army, Navy, Air Force & Marine Corps.) - 1965 Organized TAEKWONDO as primary martial art trained in the Korean military. - Appointed as Chief Instructor and a founding member of the ITF (International Taekwondo Federation). -Taught Tae-Kwon Do Patterns, Chon-Ji to Choong-Moo to instructor Jhoon Rhee(commonly referred as Father of American Taekwondo). - Appointed as the first Tae Kwon Do Chief Instructor to the Korean National Police Force, by the Minister of Homeland Affairs - Developed the first International Instructors course for the ITF, where the minimum student entrant would possess a 4th Dan black belt. - Invited by the Singapore government to introduce TAEKWONDO - Organized the first Malaysian TAEKWON-DO Championships in Penang - 1972 Opened the first TAEKWON-DO School in Montreal - 1981 Promoted to 8th Dan Black Belt. Elected as the Secretary General of the ITF. Read Full achievement and biography HERE.
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