Chong Chul Rhee

Rhee Chong Chul is a South Korean master of taekwondo who is widely known as the Father of Australian Taekwondo for introducing this martial art to Australia since arriving in the 1960s. He is the founder of Rhee TaekwonDo, which is widely publicised as Australias first and biggest taekwondo school. Rhee holds the title World Master and the rank of 8th dan in taekwondo. He is one of the twelve original masters of taekwondo of the Korea TaekwonDo Association .

Rhee was born in Korea during the period of Japanese occupation from 19101945. As a youth, he trained in martial arts, basketball, boxing, gymnastics, and weights. Later, he was an instructor in the Korean Marines for three years, teaching unarmed combat to the Marine Commandoes, Marine Brigade Headquarters, and the Marine 2nd Infantry Division. Under the direction of the KTA, Rhee helped introduce the art of taekwondo to Southeast Asiamost notably in Malaysia and Singapore, but also in Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Brunei.

Source: Wikipedia