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We celebrated our 50th anniversary from October 4th at the Boston School with instructors and Black Belts from the US, Korea, China, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Ireland, Switzerland and Brazil. The three days of activities included a Forms seminar, Black Belt promotion tests and various social events. It was a great opportunity for our key members from around the world to strengthen our camaraderie and to reaffirm our commitment to preserve the original system of Taekwondo in key locations around the world.

The 50th anniversary banner design shows a picture from the inception of our school (Mr. Kim with General Choi at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium) at the top left, and the designation of Mr. Kim as the first “Living Cultural Treasure” by the Taekwondo Times organization at the top right. The pictures at the bottom of the banner show five pictures from five decades of our school. (1) US National Coach at the 1979 world championship in Taiwan, (2) teaching at the South Korean Air Force, (3) ribbon cutting at the opening of our Korea branch with Mr. Kim’s mother, (4) conducting a Kukkiwon seminar in Korea, and (5) our network’s Shanghai International Hanmadang. Let’s all try extra hard to improve ourselves in Taekwondo during this 50th year of our school.

Mr. Kim conducted seminars and instructor training in South Korea and Singapore. It was a great opportunity for our students and instructors in Asia to receive lessons directly from Mr. Kim. Instructors from Korea, Singapore, China, Malaysia and Indonesia attended these sessions.

Mr. Kim trained with the Korean Army’s Taekwondo Instructors Unit in Vietnam during the summer of 1969, and the Commanding Officer of the unit gave this commemorative plaque to Mr. Kim. That was 55 years ago. The plaque was recently discovered from Mr. Kim’s mother’s estate in Korea. It is yet another testament to Mr. Kim’s expansive storied background.

Mr. Kim visited Korea to conduct seminars and promotion tests for our students and instructors in Asia. Five students from the Boston School accompanied Mr. Kim on this trip.

Boston International Taekwon-do Championship was held at the Boston Headquarters, with over 900 entries from the US, Singapore, Korea, China, Ireland, Malaysia and Indonesia. It was a great opportunity for the members of our community to come together and celebrate each other’s achievement in Taekwon-do. We would like to thank everyone involved for making this such a fun and exciting learning experience.

Our students were featured at the Tet 2023 Festival in Boston. Their demonstrations included Forms, Women’s Self Defense, Board Breaking and Sparring. The audience loved the performances of our students, and it was a fun and exciting experience for our team members.

Mr. Kim was invited to meet with Mr. DS Lee, president of Kukkiwon, and Mr. JB Park, director of Taekwondo Research Institute, at the Kukkiwon headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Many of the key issues regarding the future development of Taekwondo were discussed at the meeting.

We have added a power building class to our weekly training schedule. We have been conducting this class on Mondays at 7:40 pm from October 3rd. The response has been very positive. We would like to encourage all adult class students wishing to increase their power in basic techniques to include this class in their training regimen.

Our students had an exciting time performing at the 2022 Boston/Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival.

Mr. Kim conducted seminars from May 26th to May 30th in South Korea for our students and instructors in the region. The seminars were packed with enthusiastic attendees. We plan to resume our international activities going forward. Our students are welcome to accompany Mr. Kim on these trips, so please let us know if you would be interested in joining Mr. Kim on one of these trips.

Instructor K.E. Mun visited the Boston School from March 18th – 20th to go through another round of instructor training before opening her branch school in Virginia. Mr. Kim included a number of students from the Boston area who expressed an interest in helping to teach at the school in the future so they could benefit from this training as well. Everyone enjoyed meeting Ms. Mun and training alongside her.

We continue to offer both onsite and online (Zoom) classes for our students as we start the new school year. We have also brought back sparring and sparring drills classes at the school as more and more of our students have been vaccinated.

Our 2021 International Hanmadang was a great success. 29 schools participated in the demonstrations, and over 3,000 students and family watched the event from the US, Asia and Europe.

We are pleased to inform you that all members are now allowed to attend classes at the school as part of Governor’s Phase 3 Plan. Space in each class will be controlled to be in line with social distancing guidelines, so please call or e-mail the school to reserve a spot before coming to the school. We will continue with the online classes for those times you are not able to attend classes at the school.

Mr. Kim is featured on the cover of Taekwondo Times January Issue. His Axe Kick picture was taken on November 24th specifically for the Taekwondo Times cover page. The accompanying article in the magazine about Mr. Kim was written by Gabriell Paye. We are truly fortunate to have him as our teacher.

Mr. Kim visited Korea and China to conduct seminars, and to attend two receptions commemorating the 45th anniversary of our institute.

Our 45th anniversary celebration started with a three-day seminar on Traditional Forms, attended by 70 instructors and Black Belts from the US, South Korea, China, Ireland, Singapore and Japan. The celebration also included a formal dinner, attended by 120 of our key members from around the world. It was a meaningful, educational and fun weekend which will be remembered and cherished by our members for many years to come.

The Tae Kwon Do Times organization has designated Mr. Kim as the first person ever to receive the “Living Cultural Treasure” honor. Congratulations to Mr. Kim. We are so fortunate to have him as our teacher.

Our school received the Kukkiwon Top Ranked Do-Jang designation for 2019. We appreciate receiving this recognition three years in a row from Kukkiwon, and we are committed to working even harder to further improve our school for all of our members.

Picture 1: Children are waiting to take their Black Belt promotion test in Korea. 91 students from throughout Korea took their Black Belt promotion test during Mr. Kim’s visit. Picture 2: Friday evening Forms Class is popular in Korea as well. Picture 3: Participating students in one of six seminars Mr. Kim conducted in Singapore.

KBS TV aired their Taekwondo documentary on March 23rd and again on March 26th. Our school is featured in the documentary for about five minutes, including class scenes and interviews with Mr. Kim and a number of our students. It is a great honor for us to be included in this official documentary. We will continue to work hard to improve our school even further going forward.

Our school received the Kukkiwon Top Ranked Do-Jang designation for 2018. We appreciate receiving this recognition two years in a row from Kukkiwon. We will continue to do our best to improve our school further in 2019.

Mr. Kim visited Korea and China from November 17-26 to conduct seminars and promotion tests. Our network in Asia is continuing to grow stronger, evidenced by the number of students who tested for our Black Belt rank during Mr. Kim’s trip, which grew to 152 this time.

The 2018 Intensive Training Seminar on Full Range Sparring was held at the Boston Headquarters from September 21 – 23. Instructors from Korea, China, Singapore, Ireland, and Seattle joined the participants from the Boston area. The seminar was a great success, and appreciated by everyone in attendance.

Mr. Kim visited Singapore and conducted seminars for our students from Singapore and Malaysia. We now have 12 branch schools in Singapore and 2 branch schools in Malaysia. David Horrigan, Heewon Mang, and Taejin Yoon accompanied Mr. Kim on this visit.

Mr. Kim was invited by Korea Taekwondo Association, the largest national Taekwondo organization in the world, to meet with their President C. S. Choi and Vice President K. Y. Choi on April 5, 2018 to discuss various issues facing Taekwondo around the world.

Instructors Sinwoo Lee, Zhang Wei, and Sangwoo Seo visited the Boston Bon-Kwan from February 9-12 for training. These national level competition fighters said they really enjoyed the Full Range Sparring training at the headquarters.

2017 Shanghai International Hanmadang and festivities were held from November 3rd-6th, which included demonstrations, competitions, and seminars. Demonstration teams from the US, Korea, Ireland, Singapore, and China performed at the main event on November 5, 2017.

320 competitors and hundreds of spectators came to the Boston School for our 2017 U.S. Regional Championship. It was fun and exciting, and a great learning experience for our young students.

Our school received the Kukkiwon Top Ranked Do-Jang designation for 2017. We appreciate this recognition from Kukkiwon, and we are committed to working even harder to further improve our school for all of our members.

Mr. Kim visited Singapore, Korea and China to conduct classes for our students as well as seminars for instructors from those countries. Mr. Kim also approved the opening of six new schools in Asia.

Our Greater Boston demo team performed at the Dragon Boat Festival on June 12, 2016

Mr. Kim visited Korea and Singapore April 9th – April 17th, to conduct seminars and tests for our students in those countries. Mr. Kim also approved two new locations, to open later this year, in Gunpo, South Korea and in Lenyang District of Shanghai, China.

Members of Jae Hun Kim Taekwon-do Institute from the US, Asia and Europe came together at the school’s international Hanmadang in Shanghai, China on November 15, 2015.

On October 24th, our Boston branch schools came together to perform in our 2015 U.S. Hanmadang. Friends and family came to watch the demonstrations and join in the festivities.

Mr. Kim conducted seminars in Seattle on October 18th as part of Seattle School’s 10th anniversary celebration.

Six instructors from our school in Cork, Ireland, headed by Senior Master Cyril Mc Sweeney, visited the Boston Headquarters February 19th – 22nd and received intensive instructor training.

Mr. Kim was invited by Kukkiwon (Taekwondo World Headquarters) to speak to more than 500 Taekwondo school directors and instructors at the first Kukkiwon seminar of its kind held in Seoul, South Korea on the future direction of Taekwondo around the world.

The Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA) asked Mr. Kim to conduct a seminar for 100 school owners in Korea. The seminar was held on September 3rd, 2011 at the Korea National Sports University. The seminar facility could only hold 100 people, but 124 school owners crammed into the room, many of whom had to stand during the seminar. It is yet another indication of the respect Mr. Kim has in the Taekwon-do communities around the world.