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Master Kim Myung Soo~1938-1994
Departed 1994 |
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Thank you for putting up the web page for Master Kim Myung Soo. I had been trying to find information on him for many years. He was the first martial arts instructor I ever trained under at the ISB for three school years from 1966/67 to 1968/69. Your post led me to find the Chang Moo Kwan Green Book, in which he is mentioned and there is a picture of a group of students with him at the end of a rank grading in September 1968.
Note: see pages 145, 148, 188
http://changmookwan.net/changmookwanhistory/thegreenbook.html
Since then as I moved around the world and back to the USA, I've trained off and on in Judo, Hapkido, Goju Ryu, Shotokan, Tai Chi Chuan, and Renbukai. I still practice Shotokan, today and am still training to advance in rank in both Shotokan and Renbukai.
Best wishes to you and all other ISB Chang Moo Kwan alumni.
Sincerely,
Kevan Urquhart |
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I have fond memories of Mr. Kim. I started in his first classes at the
YMCA and continued at ISB until we left in '68. He showed us the power of
the discipline by breaking a rock he picked up in the garden at the Y. It
took him a while to break it with his knife hand but he didn't quit until
he did. At the school he worked us very hard. I can remember one episode
where we had just run around the track to warm up and then practiced kicks
and punches. I was breathing especially hard through my mouth and he told
me to keep my mouth closed or a fly would land in it. The rest of the
class broke up.
Steve Duncan '68 |
Sometimes we regret surfing the net for names.
Please pass along to the alumni that Mr. Kim Myung Soo died in 1994.
Many of us were students of Chang Mu Kwan taekwondo and I'm sure we've
all wondered what ever became of Sabum-nim Kim. Apparently he left
Bangkok in 1974 and settled in Switzerland, and later attained the
distinction of 9th degree black belt.
I've made an entry and hope other students of Mr. Kim's will join me.
All I could remember was the handgrenade joke he told, and when he
ripped the (unauthorized) pocket off someone's uniform jacket sleeve.
Regards,
Guy H. Power
Class of 1971
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Taekwondo
owes its arrival in Switzerland with the meeting in Bangkok of
Master Kim Myung Soo and Mr. Bundeli, current president of the Swiss
Association of Taekwondo (Swiss Taekwondo). The first dojang was opened in
Bienne in 1974. In 1983, Master Kim opened the Kim's Taekwondo School of
Lausanne, where he taught until the year of his death in 1994.
Vice-president of the technical committee of the World federation of
Taekwondo (WTF), he was one of the pioneers of modern Taekwondo. While
working with its development, he always remained faithful to traditional
Taekwondo, privileging the research of the harmony of the body and the
spirit, in the search of purely technical performances. Following the
absence of Master Kim, Master Bundeli ensured the survival of l'école
lausannoise by teaching there once per week. |
http://www.taekwondo-lausanne.ch/notre_ecole/notre_his.php
Le Taekwondo doit
sa venue en Suisse à la rencontre à Bangkok, de
Maître Kim Myung Soo
avec M. Bundeli, actuel président de l´Association Suisse de
Taekwondo (Swiss
Taekwondo). Le
premier dojang est ouvert à Bienne en 1974.
En 1983, Me Kim ouvrit L´Ecole Kim Taekwondo Lausanne, où il
enseigna jusqu´en 1994, année de son décès. Vice-Président du comité
technique de la fédération Mondiale de Taekwondo (WTF), il fut l´un des
pionniers du Taekwondo moderne. Tout en travaillant à son développement,
il resta toujours fidèle à un Taekwondo traditionnel, privilégiant la
recherche de l´harmonie du corps et de l´esprit, à la recherche de
performances purement techniques.
Suite à la disparition de Maître Kim, Maître Bundeli assura la
survie de l'école lausannoise en y dispensant une fois par semaine son
enseignement.
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