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Kim Soo

To get a better idea of how long Kim Soo has been active in the U.S. martial arts community, consider the following: He started writing for back in 1964 when it was printed in black and white on the magazine equivalent of newsprint. He moved from South Korea to Texas and started teaching in 1968, the same year he received his seventh-degree black belt from the Kang Duk Won organization. In those days, was so new in America that instructors typically billed themselves as teachers of “Korean karate” — which explains why, when he set

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