Haeng Ung ("H.U.") Lee (
July 20,
1936 -
October 5,
2000) was the founder, president, and first Grand Master of the
American Taekwondo Association. Lee was born in
Manchuria,
China after his family had left
Korea. From 1956 to 1959, Lee taught taekwondo to members of the Republic of Korea military. He started a commercial school to teach civilians in 1959. He later opened a school near a U.S. Air Force base, where he instructed and befriended an American serviceman who in 1962 sponsored Lee's emigration to the United States.
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