Soo Shim Kwan 水心館수심관

At the end of last year I was a guest on the Korea Deconstructed  podcast by Dr David Tizzard, in which we spoke about my life in Korea, Tae...

My original Taekwon-Do school that I opened in 1998 was simply named Potchefstroom Taekwon-Do Club and it kept that name for the 25 years th...

Calligraphy by Choi Hong-Hi of the Tenets of Taekwon-Do   General Choi Hong-hi, the founder of ITF Taekwon-Do, composed a list of five ten...

On Tuesday, 10 November 2020, I gave a lecture to the Royal Asiatic Society - Korea Branch , in Seoul. The lecture occurred via Zoom and was...

A very important part of Korean body culture is the bending of the knees, known in Korean as "ogeum-jil" 오금질. In the video below, ...

On a Facebook group that I belong, the following questions were recently posted: 1. When did the term "Art" get applied to ...

I recently took up Korean traditional dancing again. I'm taking classes offered by the National Theater of Korea, which also offers clas...

I was recently asked to write a 700 word essay for a magazine about my experience in Taekkyeon. Below is the first draft of that essay.  ...

Every so often I stumble upon (or am pulled into) an online conversation about ITF Taekwon-Do’s sine wave motion. This happened again recent...

The dream of re-unifying North and South Korea is slowly fading away. In the past when there were still many families that were separated by...

Me at the Ahn Joong-Gun Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, in 2009. Recently I received a question from a Taekwon-Do friend, Marku...

Today is Lunar New Year, celebrated by most of the Orient. The Lunar New Year falls on a different date every year depending on the lunar ...

One of my closest friends is genetically Korean but while he was still a toddler he was adopted by a Dutch family and so he grew up in the N...

I have taken great pains to put ITF Taekwon-Do's sine wave motion within it's proper context, showing that it is not the be-all-and-...

For a long time I have felt myself to be a singular voice proclaiming the obvious connection between ITF Taekwon-Do's sine wave motion ...