Taekwondo History Legends – Nam Tae Hi

Posted by on Thursday, December 6, 2012 Under: Photography

Major Nam Tae Hi with some of his students from the Vietnamese Army in the early 1960's

Nam Tae Hi is a modern day Taekwondo Legend who was instrumental in the formation of the art in its current form. Born in Seoul, Korea in 1929 he began his martial arts training as a school boy. After demonstrating the art to the President of South Korea (Syngman Rhee) in 1954, it was introduced to the military and five years later, Nam and a team took Taekwondo oversees for the first time when they demonstrated in Vietnam and Taiwan. Nam Tae Hi went on to teach the Vietnam army and became known as the ‘Father of Taekwondo’ in that country.

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