JOURNAL: Club Taekwondo

Marquette’s Club Taekwondo team practices in Humphrey Hall.Taekwondo is a whole lot more than people wearing colored belts and kicking things.

“Taekwondo is a lifestyle,” Marquette alum and club taekwondo team coach Matthew Lee says. “You get into it to learn a lot about Korean culture, about how your body is able to move and controlling the mind.”

Taekwondo traces its roots back more than 2000 years ago on the Korean Peninsula. The first modern taekwondo school opened up in Seoul in 1945.

Taekwondo is in Lee’s blood. His grandfather is Grandmaster J.K. Lee, a recipient of the Top Master Instructor award from the South Korean government. He has also opened taekwondo schools around Wisconsin…