Nam Suk Lee

Nam Suk Lee born in the city of Yeo Joo, is credited with cofounding the traditional Korean martial art of Chang Moo Kwan in the mid1940s, and then promoting and expanding it globally. Chang Moo Kwan was one of the five original Kwans which became Tae Kwon Do in the mid 1950s. In his later life Nam Suk Lee was to make the seaside community of San Pedro, California his home, where he reestablished his traditional roots in Chang Moo Kwan. He was 75 and still actively teaching Chang Moo Kwan through the San Pedro YMCA. Nam Suk Lee died in the neighboring Southern California community of Torrance on August 29, 2000, due to a stroke.

After Nam Suk Lee was born in Yeo Joo, a Korean citymiles of Seoul, the Lee family moved to Seoul, Korea in the 1930s during Imperialistic Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula. Nam Suk Lee had lost a younger brother to an illness prior to relocating to Seoul he was just a year old. Nam Suk Lees favorite sport was soccer and he was known to be a dominant player. He loved to study and he assumed leadership position in classroom activities.

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