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Rhee Jhoon Goo
Rhee Jhoon Goo
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Born	7 January 1932 (age 77); Korea
Other names	Jhoon Rhee
Residence	United States of America
Style	Taekwondo, Chung Do Kwan
Teacher(s)	Nam Tae Hi
Rank	10th dan taekwondo
Notable students	Muhammad Ali

This is a Korean name; the family name is Rhee.

Rhee Jhoon Goo (1932–), commonly known as Jhoon Rhee, is a Korean taekwondo master widely recognised as the 'Father of American Taekwondo' for his work in introducing this martial art to the United States of America since arriving in the 1950s.^[1] Rhee graduated from the Chung Do Kwan.^[2] During the 1960s, Rhee befriended Bruce Lee — a relationship from which they both benefited as martial artists.^[3]

In 1973 Rhee made his only kung-fu movie titled When Taekwondo Strikes.

Rhee is well known in the Washington, D.C. area for a television commercial that has a jingle by Nils Lofgren and features the catch phrase, "Nobody bothers me." In 2000, Rhee was the only Korean-American named amongst the 203 most recognized immigrants to the country by the National Immigrant Forum and the Immigration and Naturalization Services.^[1]

Rhee was inducted into the Taekwondo Hall of Fame in 2007,^[4] and he is listed as both the "Pioneer of American Taekwondo" and the "Pioneer of Taekwon-Do in Russia" there.^[5]

[edit] See also

Master Rhee

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b Grand Master Jhoon Rhee returns home to serve as Youngsan Univ.'s Chair Professor The Seoul Times, September 2004. Retrieved on 28 July 2007.
^ Kang, W. S., and Lee, K. M. (1999): The Modern History of TaeKwonDo Retrieved on 14 October 2007.
^ Nilsson, Thomas (May 1996). "With Bruce Lee: Taekwondo Pioneer Jhoon Rhee Recounts His 10-Year Friendship With the "Dragon"". Black Belt Magazine 34 (5): 39–43. http://books.google.com/books?id=H9oDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
^ Taekwondo Hall of Fame 2007 Banquet Retrieved on 12 January 2008. (Although the reference's address contains "2006," the event was actually held in 2007.)
^ Taekwondo Hall of Fame Retrieved on 12 January 2008.

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[Rhee2-0] Grand Master Jhoon Rhee returns home to serve as Youngsan Univ.'s Chair Professor The Seoul Times, September 2004. Retrieved on 28 July 2007.

[KangLee-1] Kang, W. S., and Lee, K. M. (1999): The Modern History of TaeKwonDo Retrieved on 14 October 2007.

[2] Nilsson, Thomas (May 1996). "With Bruce Lee: Taekwondo Pioneer Jhoon Rhee Recounts His 10-Year Friendship With the "Dragon"". Black Belt Magazine 34 (5): 39–43. http://books.google.com/books?id=H9oDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39&dq=#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Retrieved 2009-11-19.

[HallofFameBanquet2007-3] Taekwondo Hall of Fame 2007 Banquet Retrieved on 12 January 2008. (Although the reference's address contains "2006," the event was actually held in 2007.)

[HallofFame-4] Taekwondo Hall of Fame Retrieved on 12 January 2008.

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