Ji Yong Kwan

JYK Announcement-- Some of you already know this, but JYK would like to inform everyone officially that we are not affiliated with the GHA. Over the past few years, we have curtailed our activities with GHA since 2014 and KJN Al-Nasser have been affiliated with the...

Seollal, or Korean Lunar New Year is a holiday and celebration which marks the first day of the Korean Lunar Calendar. During this time, many Koreans visit family, perform ancestral rites, wear the hanbok (한복, 韓服) / Chosŏn-ot (조선옷, 朝鮮옷), eat traditional food and play...

JYK lapel pins arrived yesterday. Show your support for JYK and purchase a pin. The cost is $5 with free shipping in the US.

새해 복 많이 받으십시오!Wishing all of you a very happy, healthy and prosperous 2023!

Yesterday Master Al-Nasser spent the afternoon with the Hapkido Warrior from the Land Down Under, GM Geoff Booth, while he was on a short layover en route back to Sydney.

The official unveiling of the JYK Hapkido letterman jacket.

Everyone is welcome to join regardless of HKD affiliation and please feel free to invite others whom you feel may like to be part of the group. Click here to join: Hapkido

With the growing interest of Korean martial arts in Laos, today I founded the Lao Hapkido Federation (ສະຫະພັນ ຮັບກິໂດ ແຫ່ງຊາດລາວ). The Lao HKD Federation is based in Vientiane (Ban Thatkhao). For further information, feel free to contact me via FB...

In late December, Klaas Barends (6th dan), one of the world's most foremost Hankido practitioners will visit us here in Los Angeles. Klaas is a direct student of the late Hankido GM Ko Baek Yong (9th dan). GM Ko was the senior student of Myung Jae Nam, the founder of...

Happy Thanksgiving from the JYK HKD family to all of you! May your Thanksgiving be bountiful with reasons to be grateful.