At eighteen years old, Nam had begun training after school five days a week at Won-kuk Lee’s Chung Do Kwan (“gym of the blue way”), the first Karate gym in Korea and the source of many future Tae Kwon Do pioneers.60 Won-kuk Lee was a pioneer of Korean Karate and was a famous martial arts leader who was likely the only Korean to attain a second-degree black belt in Shotokan Karate before 1945.61
Chung Do Kwan
