Kwang Sung Hwang
South Korean taekwondo practitioner
Hwang Kwang-sung (born 13 September 1942) is a South Korean grand master of Taekwon-Do, a notable officer of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), the second President of KoreAmerica Taekwon-Do Union (KATU) after the first Master Cho, Dae-sung was replaced by General Choi Hong Hi who founded the organization, founder and president of Unified International Taekwon-Do Federation.
Personal life
Hwang Kwang-sung was born in Taegu, Korea, in 1942. He started martial arts training at age eleven. Before training with General Choi Hong Hi he studied under Grandmaster Kwang Kee, who was the founder of Moo Duk Kwan (Tang Soo Do)
Grandmaster Hwang Kwang Sung started learning at the age of 11 in South Korea. He trained with Hwang Kee and in Tang Soo Do, and the official records from the Moo Duk Kwan Dan Bon system show him as Dan Bon #6523. Grandmaster Hwang kept training to 2nd degree Blackbelt. He eventually transitioned to General Choi when the kwans united under the Taekwon-Do name. After studying political science at Kyungpook National University, he attended the Infantry Officer Candidate School in the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) and graduated as a Second Lieutenant. Subsequently, he attended the ROK Army Taekwon-Do International Instructors School. In 1968–1969, he was one of the Taekwon-Do instructors dispatched to Vietnam during the war.
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