Credentials & Achievements
Grand Master Jae Sun Do, MS, PhD
President - World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association
9th Dan World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association
9th Dan Korean Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan
Kukkiwon Certified International Master
Kukkiwon Certified Poom/Dan Belt Examiner
Kukkiwon International Referee
Former Pan American Moo Duk Kwan Secretary General
Valencia Community College Adjunct Professor
Author, Co authored "Beginning Taekwondo"
Founder (see history below)
Former Korean Air Force Instructor
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Grand Master Jae Sun Do a Kukkiwon Certified Master Instructor was promoted to 9th Dan in 1994 by Korean Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan President GM Chon, Jae Kyu. GM Do is one of the highest ranked Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan Grand Masters in the world. He is an original student of GM Hwang Kee and GM Chong Soo Hong, former Secretary General of the Pan American Moo Duk Kwan, former Korean Air Force instructor, former Valencia Community College Adjunct Professor, International Referee, Author, Co Founder and President of The World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association.
A 9th Degree Black Belt & Korean National Treasure, International Referee, Founder, Author, former Secretary General of the Pan American Moo Duk Kwan, Kukkiwon and Moo Duk Kwan Certified Master Instructor, a Valencia Community College Adjunct Professor, former Korean Air Force Academy Physical Education and Meteorology Instructor, with a MS in Physical Education and a PhD in Religious Studies, a major contributor to the early success of Taekwondo Moo Duk Kwan in the USA and the Americas.
He has trained, taught, promoted, and demonstrated Taekwondo & Hapkido across the globe for over 60 years since the early 1960's, including his world famous demonstration at the 1978 Third World Taekwondo Championship in the Chicago International Amphitheatre.
GM Jae Sun Do's roots in Korean martial arts predate the naming of Taekwondo itself, in fact he was involved in the unification that created modern day Taekwondo. GM Do began his martial arts training in his hometown of Seoul S. Korea at a very young age and was a student of GM Hwang Kee in what became Tang Soo Do & Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan before the Korean Taekwondo Association or Kukkiwon existed. He later resumed training with GM Chong Soo Hong following GM Hong into the Korean Taekwondo Association, the Kukkiwon, and the newly formed Tae Kwon Do Moo Duk Kwan during the Kwan Unification effort.
GM Hong Chong Soo and GM Do recognized the great accomplishments of GM Hwang Kee and yet valued the newly required nationally recognized standard and certification process set forth by the Korean government. For this reason GM Hong and GM Do set out to evaluate, analyze, and devise an advanced Tae Kwon Do Moo Duk Kwan curriculum which would respect and honor the Moo Duk Kwan roots and philosophy of GM Hwan Kee and yet meet or exceed the requirements of the emerging Kukkiwon.
GM Do immigrated to the United States in 1974 with the first wave of Kukkiwon dispatched Korean Taekwondo Masters where he continued to develop the World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association curriculum and opened Master Do's Tae Kwon Do Academy's in Chicago Illinois, eventually growing to eight schools. During the following years GM Do studied Hapkido with Jin Jung Kwan Hapkido Founder GM Kim Myung Yong and others adding to the basis of the World Taekwondo & Hapkido Association curriculum.
GM Do assisted in the development of numerous prominent Midwestern U.S. Taekwondo Associations and other organizations as Director, Chairman, Board Member, and other positions including the Pan American Moo Duk Kwan of which he was Secretary General from 1981 to 1986, and was instrumental in the promotion of Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido self defense throughout the Midwestern United States, Central, and South America.
GM Do eventually moved his Academy to Orlando Florida in 1990. In 1992/93 Grand Master Chong Soo Hong visited GM Do's Orlando Academy expressing his excitement, approval, and desire for world wide dissemination of this advanced martial arts education, skills, and training system.
In 1991 GM Do accepted Master Nelson as his student and this is when the passage of this system began.
