Oh Se-Lim was an early Korean hapkido practitioner and a pioneer of the art. He had been the president of the Korea Hapkido Federation for 18 years.

Life

Oh began his study of hapkido at Ji Han-Jae 's first hapki yukwonsool school, the An Moo Kwan in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Fellow students were Kwon Tae-Man, and Yoo Young-Woo. He continued training at Majang, Seongdong, Seoul in 1957. Oh joined other senior practitioners already training in Seoul at that time, early hapkido practitioners Hwang Deok-Kyoo (latter day president of the Korea Hapkido Association), Myung Kwang Sik (latter day founder of the World Hapkido Federation), Lee Tae Jun, Kim Yong-Jin (founder of the Ulji Kwan), Kang Jong-Soo , and Kim Yong-Whan.

Accomplishments

Oh Se-Lim was elected the president of the Korea Hapkido Association in 1980. By 1983 Oh Se-Lim, with political problems and many of the original founding members of the Korea Hapkido Association departing (Ji Han-Jae, Myung Jae-Nam), renamed the association by the name first used by the organization he had first been a part of with Master Ji, the Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe, with a new preferred English rendering; the Korea Hapkido Federation (KHF). Master Oh resigned the position of the president of the KHF, that was succeeded by Kim Jong-Yoon in 2008.