| LC control no. | n 50054822 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rhee, Jhoon |
| Variant(s) | Rhee, Jhoon Goo Yi, Chun-gu, 1932-2018 |
| Located | Washington (D.C.) McLean (Va.) |
| Birth date | 1932-01-07 |
| Death date | 2018-04-30 |
| Place of birth | Asan-si (Ch'ungch'ŏng-namdo, Korea) |
| Place of death | Arlington (Va.) |
| Field of activity | Tae kwon do |
| Profession or occupation | Martial artists |
| Found in | Author's Chon-ji of Tae kwon do hyung, 1970. LC data base, 9-20-90 (hdg.: Rhee, Jhoon Goo; usage: Jhoon Rhee) Bruce Lee and I, c2000: t.p. (Jhoon Rhee) p. 17, etc. (b. Jan. 7, 1932 in Asan, Korea; to U.S. in 1956; tae kwon do grandmaster) Washington post WWW site, viewed May 2, 2018 (Grandmaster Jhoon Rhee, a Korean-born martial artist who settled in Washington and helped popularize taekwondo in the United States, died April 30 [2018] in Arlington, Va.; he was 86; in 1962 established a gym in downtown Washington; in the mid-1980s, Mr. Rhee operated a network of 11 martial arts studios across the Washington region; gained additional exposure through the Congressional Taekwondo Club, which he organized in 1965; Jhoon Goo Rhee was born in Asan, Korea, on Jan. 7, 1932; began teaching informal taekwondo classes and was studying engineering at the University of Texas when he dropped out in 1962 to move to Washington; wrote several books, led seminars and starred in one martial arts film; retired from teaching in 1980 and sold his company several years later; soon focused on introducing taekwondo to the former Soviet Union, where Jhoon Rhee-affiliated schools now exist in Ukraine, Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; photo caption: shown in 2002 at home in McLean, Va.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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