The memoirs of Choi Hong-Hi, the founder of Taekwon-do.

The Little Giant, Chi Hong-Hi, created taekwon-do as a modern sport and developed it as the world-famous martial art in two decades of devotion. Being a founding member of the South Korean Armed Forces, and the foremost calligrapher of his time, he was at the front of the movment for Korean Unification. The panoramic memoir of his life is an epic drama.

General Choi was born on Nivember 9, 1918 in Hwae Dea, Hamkyung Buckdo, NOrth Korea.

After studed in the Ckhu-Oh University in Japan he graduated form the Military School in Seooul, Korea in 1946. Gen. Choi is one of he founding members of the Armed Forces of the Repblich of Korea.

As retired from the military service in 1961 he was appointed and seved as the first Ambassador of Korea to Malaysia in 1962.
Gen. Chi undertook incessant and devoted researches in the field of martial art from March of 1946. Eventually on April 11, 1955, he proclaimed the name, Taekwon-Do by assembling he naming boards for the martial art he developed.

In September of 1959, Gen. Choi founded the Korea Taekwon-Do Association.

In 1966, Gen. Choi founded the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), with associations of 9 countries. He, in 1972, sought political refuge in Canada and while in exile, he promoted taekwon-do throughout the entire wold.

On September 2, 1999, Gen. Choi founded the International Martial Games Committee (Martial Arts Games Committee) and was amoved to the president of it.

Literary works:
Military Intelligence
The Korean Art of Self-Defence
Encyclopedia of Taekwon-Do
Moral Guidance

Review
A magnificent story of a man who changed the world. --Risingsunproductions.net

Finally the true story of the roots of Taekwon-Do. --Fightingspirit.com
Product Description
Tae Kwon Do and I Combined this is both volumes 1 and 2. It is placed inside a beautiful collectors box for postarity and safe keeping as there are only a few hundred of these books left in print.

General Choi Hong Hi created Taekwon-Do and developed it as the world-famous martial art in two decades of devotion. Being a founding member of the South Korean Armed Forces and the foremost calligrapher of his time he was at the front of the movement for Korean Unification. The panoramic memoir of his life is an epic drama in 2 volumes titled 'Taekwon-Do and I'. Also included in this set is 'The Moral Guide Book' - a collection of maxims and teachings by ancient wise men intended to aid in establishing a lifestyle based on a solid code of morality. This title was directly translated by General Choi Hong Hi This three book set includes: Taekwon-Do and I Vol 1: Motherland the Land in Turmoil (601 pages) Taekwon-Do and I Vol 2: The Vision of Exile: Any Place under Heaven is Do-Jang (562 pages).

Contents

Foreword
Part 1 Childhood
Prologue
Only a weakling survives
Stubborn as a donkey
Living at my step mother's
Bottom of the class, top in mischief
About dreams
Burgeoning anti-Japanese sentiment
Learning calligraphy from Master Han Il-Dong
Asking the dead for a wish
Writing epitaphs, a singer-to-be
Anything you have learned helps
My first love
Acquiring a certificate with at the tip of a brush
Part 2 School days
Karate that I learned in my school days
Naive competition
Success takes effort
Match that didn't take place
Honor saved by my fist
Never lose to the Japanese
Medical school or law school
Korean students and student soldiers
Part 3 The students riot in Pyong-Yang
'I will come back alive'
Military horses and soldiers
Organizing comrades in secret
Let's go to to Bak-Du Mountain
Part 4 Tragedy in the prison
Severe discipline
Karate teacher in a blue unifirm
Mother's heart
A way of correspondence
A secret plan
Pyong-Yang Prison
Emergency measure proclaimed
Jail within a jail
Liberation three days b efore the execution
Unforgetable welcome party
the advantage of poison-ivy
I come back alive
Part 5 After national liberation
Local organzation
The Hahk-Byung League in Sam-Chung-Dong
Right versus left in the league
Formation of a protogype of the National Army
A hoodlum buying drinks
Attending military language school
Part 6 My army life-the first part
Second Lieutenant in Korean Constabulary
The first posting, Kwang-Ju
Friendship from the fight
An army sword and the head of the police chief
Gangsters in Kwang-Ju
The ax turns in my hand
The local color
Thanks to my dullness
The unhappy promotoin
Negotiations with Taek-Shang Jang
'Korean Major, number one'
Tickets of the Soo-Do Theater
A drinking party with a communist
The best fighter in the Korean Army
The position claimed by my fist
Politics intervening in the army
Corruption in high positions
Four star Generral at eating cold noodles
Demotion to an unimportant post
Part 7 Army life-the second part
Unexpected leave to study in U.S.
An eventful tiip by train
The basic and advanced course
Advance course
Hot-pepper eating contest
News about 'The Korean War'
Commadning post at the front
The fundationof Army Ground General School
Conspiracy at the military shool
The poster scandal in Pusan
Meeting my master again in 17 years
sThe briefing appreciated by General MacArthur
Reconstrucctoin of the Mee-Shee Pass, and the Temple, Nak-Shan
Returning with regret to teh firts corps
Sacrificed for the cease fire conference
The foundation of 'IKC' Unit in 29th Division
The landing of 'IKC'
Founding taekwon-do
Upon the unveiling ceremony of Choong-Ryeoul Monument
Reconstructiong the Third Military Districk Command
The miserable National Art Exhibition
Docter Rhee and the first anniversary of the military district
Political swindlers
Part 8 Army days-the third part
The death of Ik-Hee Shin
Entering militray college
With time on my hands, I get a house
Accepting a new responsibility
Human nature shown in gambling
Taekwon-do intruduced abroad for the first time
An unexpected fortune
Acting for the ocmmander
Introducing taekwon-do in America
Never have a chance
Sweeping away the vicioius journalists
5.16 and I
Becoming commander of the 6th Army Corps
'I say what I have to say...'
I didn't expect things would turn out this way