‘Father of Mexican Taekwondo’ Moon Dai-won dies at 83

Grand Master Moon Dai-won, widely regarded as the “Father of Mexican Taekwondo,” died Saturday at his home in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He was 83. According to reports from Mexican media and Korean news outlets, Moon had reportedly lived with chronic lung illness. Born in Hongseong, South Chungcheong Province, in 1943, Moon first arrived in Mexico in 1968 and opened the "Moo Duk Kwan" Taekwondo school in Mexico City the following year, becoming the first Korean master to systematically intr

By The Korea Herald