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Grandmaster Suh In Hyuk:  Kuk Sa Nym (National Martial Arts Teacher)

  Trained from a very young age, Suh In Hyuk has been deeply involved with Korean martial arts for his entire life.  He began training with his grandfather, Suh Myuhng Duk, and later continued his martial arts training throughout Korea under masters of many different styles and techniques of traditional martial arts.

  In the late 1950s, young master Suh made the decision to develop a single martial arts system that reflected the martial heritage of the Korean people, to organize this system in a structured manner that could be taught and passed on and finally to make these historical martial arts -- many of which had remained secret and hidden for generations -- available to the average Korean people for the first time in Korean history.

  In 1958, he organized Kuk Sool from the teachings of his grandfather and others -- including his second most influential teacher, Hai Dong Seu Nym ("The Great Monk of the Eastern Sunrise") -- and began to personally train others in this new art form.  

In 1962 Grandmaster Suh further organized his system under the name of Kuk Sool Won™ ("Korean Traditional Martial Arts Association") and began to spread the art throughout Korea.  In time, Grandmaster Suh accepted his first American student, a young GI training while stationed in Korea, named Ken Duncan. This would lead to important developments in the spread of Kuk Sool Won™ as Duncan later sponsored Grandmaster Suh in his relocation to the United States, where in 1974 he would settle in San Francisco to open the new headquarters school for what is now the World Kuk Sool Association.

  Honored by the Korean government with the title "Kuk Sa Nym" (meaning "National Martial Arts Teacher"), Grandmaster Suh has now seen Kuk Sool Won™ develop worldwide with schools throughout the United States, Great Britain, Europe, Canada, South America, Asia and the Middle East.

  Today, while still relatively young art and growing daily, Kuk Sool Won™ is the largest organization of its type in the world.

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