Chang Moo Kwan: The Source

Articles About Chang Moo Kwan and

 Supreme Gandmaster Lee Nam Suk

INSIDE TAE KWON DO 

Chang Moo Kwan Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee

Patriarch of the Chang Moo Kwan

Part I

October 1993

by

James Dussault
This particular scan comes from Grandmaster Jon Wiedenman's private collection.  It was autographed by Supreme Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee in September 1998 and personally presented to  Grandmaster Wiedenman at a promotion test which Supreme Grandmaster Lee attended at the San Pedro Boys and Girls Club. 
Autographed by Supreme Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee, on September 9, 1998, this was presented to Grandmaster Jon Wiedenman at a promotion test at the San Pedro Boys and Girls Club.  At this point, Supreme Grandmaster had yet to accept Grandmaster Wiedenman's request to teach at the San Pedro YMCA.  "I thought it was a huge deal he was at our promotion test, a bigger deal he was offering to sign magazines, I had no idea at this point we would be buying him a uniform and Supreme Grandmaster Lee would be teaching us."  Grandmaster Wiedenman reflects. 

"Inside Tae Kwon Do," October 1993 by James Dussault.  Above is Part one of a two part article about then Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee.  The article, "Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee: Patriarch of the Chang Moo Kwan." is the first mainstream article on Supreme Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee one can find.  The handsome portrait has found its way into many studios.  James Dussault was highly respected by Supreme Grandmaster Lee, and instrumental in keeping the Chang Moo Kwan logo and name public domain.  Grandmaster Jon Wiedenman and Master George Fullerton met Master James Dussault in the late 2000.  (See "A Spark ignites" for the Story)  Grandmaster Wiedenman remembers:  "Master Dussault was quite a character very fired up and really into about a million different things, but he was very much into Chang Moo Kwan and Supreme Grandmaster Lee.  He was into the preservation of the logo too.  He ripped open his shirt in the middle of a Los Angeles Korean restaurant and showed Master Fullerton and I this really big, color tatoo on his chest of the Chang Moo Kwan logo.  This was about six months after Supreme Grandmaster passed away.  I just looked at Master Fullerton and smiled.  Niether of us new how to tell him the logo had changed from the 'horse' head he now had embedded in his chest to the head of a traditional dragon.  We let the one go."

INSIDE TAE KWON DO

Chang Moo Kwan Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee

Patriarch of the Chang Moo Kwan

Part II

December 1993

by

James Dussault
Once again we have a scan from Grandmaster Jon Wiedenman's collection.  Here, a signed page from "Inside Tae Kwon Do," Supreme Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee performs a stomp kick to his son.  "I really tried hard to get as many authographed pages in both his magazines and the "Green Book."  Grandmaster was really good about sharing his autographs." 

In Part II of James Dussault classic article on Supreme Grandmaster Lee Nam Suk has some nice comments about Supreme Grandmaster Lee's family most of who Grandmaster met on his visits to the Hospital when Supreme Grandmaster Lee fell ill.  Master Hack Lee often accompanied Supreme Grandmaster Lee to events and was  a valuable liason between Grandmaster Wiedenman and Supreme Grandmaster Lee.  He lived locally to the South Bay, California and taught music lessons primarily the violin and the guitar.

TAE KWON DO TIMES

WTF's Foundation

The Chang Moo Kwan

July 2000

By Len Losik

 

In  this article the history of the WTF established it roots in Chang Moo Kwan.  Interesting to note, a special thanks is given to to Master James Dussault for the photos submitted.  Most of the photos can be found in "the Green Book."  Master James Dussault met with Grandmaster Jon Wiedenman and Master George Fullerton in Los Angeles, California a few months after Supreme Grandmaster's passing away.  The three met at an upscale Korean restaurant in Koreatown and ate and talked Chang Moo Kwan until they closed the restaurant down and then finished in the parking lot.  Although they talked friquently on the phone that was the last time Grandmaster Wiedenman and Master Fullerton we to see Master Dussault alive.  He passed away, suddenty, a few short months later apparently from heart failure.  Master Dussault was a die-hard Chang Moo Kwan sylist and loved the martial arts.  He will be missed.

TAE KWON DO TIMES

Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee Dies at 75

January 2001

Tae Kwon Do Times Editor

In January 2001 TAE KWON DO TIMES published a half page article submitted by Master George Fullerton paying final respects and honoring the life of the now Supreme Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee.  The photo was taken at the San Pedro Boys and Girls Club where Supreme Grandmaster Lee attended Grandmaster Jon Wiedenman and Master George Fullerton's black belt promotion test--which was point zero for Supreme Grandmaster coming out of retirement. (See whole story in "The Spark Ignites.")  The article is a short summarization of Supreme Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee's life and his accomplishes.  It highlights the fact Supreme Grandmaster Lee's instruct at the San Pedro YMCA.  It also notes Grandmaster Jon Wiedenman recognized his teacher and the Chang Moo Kwan founder as a Tenth Degree Black Belt and Supreme Grandmaster.

TAE KWON DO TIMES

Chang Moo Kwan Tae Kwon Do

Passing the Torch

January 2002

By

George V. Fullerton

In January 2002 Master George Fullerton submitted this very powerful TAE KWON DO TIMES article compassionately addressing Supreme Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee's San Pedro YMCA experience.  Reflecting back now in 2010, almost a decade later, many acknowlege the simple fact that the Chang Moo Kwan legacy, and that of Supreme Grandamaster Lee's teachings, would have a far different ending had he not come in contact with Grandmaster Wiedenman and Master George Fullerton.  

TAE KWON DO TIMES

Art, Life & Legacy:  A Generation Passes

November 2002

by

Greg Ryman Editor-in-Chief

 

This tribute to Supreme Grandmaster Nam Suk Lee notes that many great Masters passed around the same time.

TAE KWON DO TIMES

Chang Moo Kwan Promotions

July 2011

by

Editor-in-Chief