Budo International

After over forty years of teaching and over fifty years of training in the Korean Martial and Healing Art of Hwa Rang Do, the Way of the Flowering Manhood, founded by my father, Supreme Grandmaster Dr.

A sword is not about pummeling your opponent unconscious, to takle and grapple to submission, to lose and fight another day; it is for either life or death.....

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Due to the recent events, as the world regresses into a state of panic and pandemonium caused by the pandemic outbreak of the Corona Virus, I was compelled to deliver a message of the true meaning and value of what it means to live life as a martial artist, a warrior, a Hwarang, as I feel it is most relevant in these uncertain contemporary times

My parents were inseparable, truly loving and passionate towards each other.  They had four children, myself, and two daughters with one son on the way.  So the decision to leave Korea and leave his family behind was terribly difficult for him.  However, he was driven by his ambition to share his beautiful art with the World, but also a promise

Hwa Rang Do Jumps are spectacular! .....

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An interesting story comes to mind about the Jang Choong Park.  It was a large central park, very popular and frequented by many people for social activities, exercise, sports, and other gatherings, but it was also infamous for another reason, for fighting.  Many times, my father would be challenged by the local gangs as my father and his high l

Today we bring to the pages and front cover of our magazine the Supreme Grandmaster Joo Bang Lee, a strong pillar of Korean Arts and without whose participation, one could never understand their evolution in the West....

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"Learning, striving for perfection, achieving excellence is not a destination but a journey, a path, the way.".....

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