TRAVEL JOURNALS & BLACK BELT ESSAYS

Jung’s Tae Kwon Do Featured in VOA

I would like to thank VOA for making the heartbeat of veterans a lubricant by producing a special feature of the US State Department broadcasting VOA for the successful meeting between the heads of South and South Korea. Pioneer Jung, woo-jin. 한.월 정상,기업인… 승공적어로 만남을 미국무성 방송 보이스아메리카 VOA 는 특집을(한.월어로) 제작하여 한.미.월 3국에 노병의…

Honoring Edward Brightstar

Edward Brightstar received a plaque for doing something not seen in over sixty years of Grandmaster Jung teaching Taekwondo. He selflessly postponed testing for orange belt so that his younger brother, Jackson Brightstar, could catch up to him so that they could continue on to orange belt together. Grandmaster Jung was so impressed by Edward’s…

GRANDMASTER JUNG’S TRIP TO CHINA

  | Tong-il Unification Keup (yell)   | Baekdu Mountain and Chonji Lake, located on the North Korea – China border   | Instructor Hyun-kyung Hong from Chicago gave GM Jung a card explaining various Chinese expressions  

MR JUNG’S TRIP TO VIETNAM

    | Mr. Jung was stationed in this village in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968, during the Vietnam War. He returned 40 years later in 2008 to find village people that recognized him. Together, they shared a meal and stories.   정우진병장 십자성부대 투이호아 탄약중대로 참전하여 68년도에 귀국 1971년도 전재산 35달라로 미 국으로 이민을떠나…

GRANDMASTER JUNG’S TRIP TO UZBEKISTAN

  | Traditional Uzbek musical instruments   | A cultural display during the opening ceremony   | A traditional Uzbek dance   | Children perform dance routines at the tournament   | One of the tournament’s welcome banners   | GM Woo-jin Jung signs a book for Dr. Leon Wai Meng   | Members of…

ELIZABETH GIBSON — FOURTH DEGREE

Grinnell Dojang Fourth Degree     My Tae Kwon Do Journey   Three years. In three years, not much has changed. I still work at the same job, go to the same church, live in the same house, and drive the same car. I’m still in my 40s (for a little while longer). I probably…

ISABELLA BOGDONOVICH — SECOND DEGREE

Garnavillo Dojang Second Degree     My name is Isabella Bogdonovich. I am 11 years old and I have been taking Tae Kwon Do for 4 years now. I thought a lot about what to write in this essay and I finally decided to research Tae Kwon Do more and do an essay about my…