Hwang Hyun-chul

Hwang Hyun-chul (born on March 4, 1947) is a South Korean martial artist who is a tenth-degree midnight blue belt in Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan and the son of the late Hwang Kee, founder of the Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan (formerly Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan) system.

Biography Hyun-chul Hwang was born in Seoul, South Korea, the oldest child of Moo Duk Kwan founder Hwang Kee. He began training in martial arts under his father, Hwang Kee, on May 5, 1954, at the age of 7. Two years later at the age of 9, he would become the youngest person in Korea to earn his black belt.

In 1975, Hwang would soon become the chairman of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) for then U.S. Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation, serving under his father. In 1995, during the 50th anniversary celebration of the founding of the Moo Duk Kwan the elder Hwang officially renamed the art from Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan to Soo Bahk Do, with the younger Hwang being named the president of the renamed U.S. Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation.

For the next several years Hwang would rise up the ranks and eventually be promoted to the rank of ninth-degree black belt. In 2004, Hwang was inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame as Man of the Year.