Choi Yong-sul

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Korean spelling
Hangeul	최용술
Hanja	崔 龍 述
Revised Romanization	Choe Yong-sul
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'oe Yongsul
See also : Korean name

Choi Yong-sul

Choi Yong-sul (* 1904 , † 1986 ; also Choi Yong Sool, Asao Yoshida, Tatsujutsu Yoshida) was a Korean martial artist and founder of the martial art Hapkido .

Choi was born in 1904 in a village called Yong Dong in Chungcheongbuk-do Province, Korea. At that time, Korea came under the rule of Japan and was officially annexed in 1910. A Japanese shopkeeper in his village abducted him to Japan when he was eight years old. He had no son and wanted to make Choi his heir. Shortly after he arrived in the Japanese city of Moji, however, he was said to have been cast out because he was said to have cried constantly because he was homesick. Choi was found on the street by the police and taken to the Buddhist monk Watanabe Kintaro .

Choi Yong-sul showed great interest in training martial arts in the temple, which is why he was brought to Takeda Sōkaku , who was a martial arts teacher and friend of Kintaro, at the age of about 11 . According to his own account, Choi studied with Takeda for 30 years.

After his return to Korea, Choi founded the martial art Hapkido , which is based on the techniques of Takedas Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu .

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choi is the family name here, Yong-sul is the first name.