Kim Chul-hwan

Grand Master Kim, Chul-Hwan 9th Dan (June 18, 2006)

Kim Chul-hwan (born December 12, 1954 in Korea ; † November 12, 2018 ) was a Taekwondo Grand Master with a successful competitive career and holder of the 9th Dan (WTF Taekwondo).

International competition success

His martial arts career began in 1963 at the age of 9. In addition to 24 Korean titles, he won the team title with the Korean national team in 1973 at the first WTF Taekwondo World Championship in Seoul (Korea). A year later, he also won the title of Asian champion and was voted Sportsman of the Year in Korea. With his greatest success, the championship title at the Pre World Games 1978 in Seoul, he completed his active competitive career.

Taekwondo teacher

He lived in Germany since 1980 and founded Sportschule Kim in Aachen , a Taekwondo school that still exists successfully today and in which he passed on his training experience to adults, but also especially to children (Tae Kwon Do children). His fatherly and warm-hearted manner made it easier for children from 4 years of age to get started in martial arts based on motivation. As a result, the drop-out rate among "his" children is so low that they almost without exception continue on the path to the black belt. In Germany, especially in North Rhine-Westphalia and Saxony , he supported other Taekwondo clubs and conducted exams and courses. Twice a year he organized an international tournament in Stolberg together with other grandmasters .

His most successful students included u. a. former DTU national team members, such as B .:

• Ute Güster - multiple German champion and world heavyweight champion in women in 1983
• Kim Yeon-ji - two-time lightweight world champion, 2001 in Seoul and 2003 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
• Chan-Ok Choi - 5th place at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, third at the World Cup in 1983, a. a. European champion in 1986 and multiple German champion
• Marcus Ketteniß - World Champion Poomsae 2014 / Mexico, 3 times European Champion, 25 times international German Champion

Private environment

Kim Chul-hwan was married. His daughter Kim Yeon-ji is internationally successful in Taekwondo and was twice world champion in the lightweight, 2001 in Seoul ( South Korea ) and 2003 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .

Publications

Together with Konstantin Gil , Kim Chul-hwan wrote several books on Taekwondo, a. a. a four-volume textbook under the title “Taekwondo perfect” published by Jaguar Verlag, Hanover (2010).

• Kim Chul-Hwan and Konstantin Gil: Taekwondo Perfect 1 . Jaguar-Verlag, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812909-0-5 .
• Kim Chul-Hwan and Konstantin Gil: Taekwondo Perfect 2 . Jaguar-Verlag, Hannover 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812909-1-2 .
• Kim Chul-Hwan and Konstantin Gil: Taekwondo Perfect 3 . Jaguar-Verlag, Hannover 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812909-2-9 .
• Kim Chul-Hwan and Konstantin Gil: Taekwondo Perfect 4 . Jaguar-Verlag, Hannover 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812909-3-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: aachen-gedenken.de. Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten, November 17, 2018, accessed on January 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ www.jaguarverlag.de

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Chul-hwan is the first name.