Choi Yong-sool (1904 to 1986) was a Korean martial artist and the founder of hapkido. Born in what is now North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, he was taken to Japan as a boy during the occupation of Korea, and he later said that he studied Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu there under Takeda. After the Second World War he returned to Korea and in 1948 began teaching at a brewery, calling his art first Yu Sul and Yawara and eventually hapkido. He was honoured with the titles doju, keeper of the way, and changsija, founder. Hapkido, Kuk Sool Won, Hwa Rang Do and several smaller arts show his influence. Sources disagree on whether he was born in 1904 or 1899.
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He was born in today's North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
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It is generally accepted that Choi was born in the year 1904
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He was born in today's North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
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was the founder of the martial art Hapkido
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