Obituary – Jhoon Rhee (1932 – 2018), “father of American Taekwondo” | Legacy.com

Jhoon Rhee was a 10th-degree black belt credited with spreading taekwondo in the United States, especially around the nation's capital, after emigrating from Korea in the 1950s. He opened his first taekwondo school in Washington, D.C., in 1962. By the 1980s, Rhee had 11 schools in the Washington area.

Source: Jhoon Rhee (1932 – 2018), "father of American Taekwondo" | Legacy.com

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