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Founder of Tae Kwon Do in Australia
- Master Chong Chul Rhee, founder of Tae Kwon Do in Australia, head of the Rhee Tae Kwon Do Organisation, Master Instructor and Chief Instructor for Australia and New Zealand, he is also the President of the Tae Kwon Do Instructors’ Federation of Australia and New Zealand.
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- The Early Life of Jhoon Rhee
- Discovering Taekwondo
- Conflict in Korea
- Arrival of Jhoon Rhee in America
- Jhoon Rhee Becomes The Tiger
Jhoon Rhee was born in a small village in Korea, called Sanyangri, Asan, on January 7th, 1931. It was a time of turmoil for the nation, as it was still occupied by Japanese Colonial rule. His mother a housewife, and his father a clerk at a local shop, Jhoon Rhee as born into humble beginnings. But, as his mother knew, he would grow to become a tige...
By the age of 13, Jhoon Rhee had moved to Seoul to study. This was just before one of the greatest shifts in his life would take place. It was when Jhoon Rhee had turned 14, in 1945, that Korea had earned its Independence from the rule of Japanese colonials. This would ark the turning point for many Korean lives. Prior to this day, the Japanese rul...
After years of devoting himself to the martial arts, and studying English, Jhoon Rhee had decided that he would attend University in order to further his education to pursue his dreams. However, that would all come to a halt when war in Korea broke out. Jhoon Rhee and his brother were forced to flee south, in order to hide from the North Korean Com...
Jhoon Rhee had carved quite a bit of respect for himself in the 101st battalion of the Korean army. And after the war had ended, he decided that he would go into weather and aircraft maintenance school to further his education at last. Just a little over a year into his education there, he heard of an opportunity to study aircraft maintenance in th...
In 1962, in Washington D.C, Jhoon Rhee finally accomplished his dream of opening his very own TaeKwonDo School. The Jhoon Rhee School of TaeKwonDo. Jhoon Rhee’s life would become far greater than he ever dreamed or imagined soon after. From his school reaching untold success, to his own personal friendship with martial arts icon Bruce Lee, Jhoon Rh...
Rhee Jhoon-goo (Korean: 이준구; Hanja: 李俊九, January 7, 1932 – April 30, 2018), commonly known as Jhoon Rhee, was a Korean-American taekwondo practitioner. He is widely recognized as the "father of American taekwondo" for introducing the Korean martial art to the United States when he immigrated in the 1950s.
World Master Chong Chul Rhee is the founder and Father of Tae Kwon Do in Australia and the head of the Rhee Tae Kwon Do Organisation. He is the Master Instructor and Chief Instructor for Australia and New Zealand.
The Master Instructor and Chief Instructor for Australia and New Zealand, he is also the President of the Taekwon-Do Instructors’ Federation of Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Rhee acquired vast international experience before coming to Australia.
Explore the inspiring journey of Grand Master Jhoon Rhee, pioneer of American Tae Kwon Do, and his transformative impact on martial arts." Grand Master Rhee (1932-2018) the Father of American Tae Kwon Do & the first in the National Karate lineage.
Rhee Taekwon-Do was the first Australian martial art school founded by a Korean master and using the name of taekwondo. Rhee's school was also the first nationwide taekwondo school in Australia, having operated in South Australia from its founding in the mid-1960s, Western Australia from at least 1970, [27] Victoria from at least 1970, [28] the ...
