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About Us The Korean Musul Institute was founded in 2005 to bring the art of Hapkido as taught by the International Hapkido Federation to the Northern Virginia area. We take a serious approach to the art of Hapkido. We do not do compititions! The International Hapkido Federation has a long history of providing the art of Hapkido to the general public, as well as military, and goverment personnel. We like to provide training to anyone interested in learning the art of Hapkido. Our students are known to be of the best. We strive not only to be good at learning and teaching Hapkido techniques, but to also further our understanding of people, culture, and languages of others we come in contact with. As well as continuing our education of Hapkido and it's history.    
Our federation uses the name Hapkido because our roots are from Choi, Yong-Sul through Ji Han-Jae and then Chang, Young-Shil. Ji Han-Jae (as history shows) was the person who coined the name Hapkido and many followed this name. Ji Han-Jae had changed the name to Hapkido because it became a way of life for him as well as many others, not just technique. Hapkido greats like Han Bong-Soo, Lim Hyun-Soo, Suh In-Seo, Suh In-Hyuk, Lee Joo-Bang and many others. The founder of our organization's instructor was Ji Han-Jae while it was still Hapkiyoosool under Choi, Yong-Sul's direction. We were also affiliated with Han, Bong-Soo and Myung, Jae-Nam during those times. Many instructors worked together to create a new way of defense. There was no Tae-Kyeon in Japan so they had to create a system of defense against those types of attacks. To know your enemy is to know victory. We became the "International Hapkido Federation" after Chang, Young-Shil started his own school in 1968. The techniques are still refered to as Hapkiyoosool, the art is Hapkido.
Please do not confuse this International Hapkido Federation with any other organization with the same name. Our organization is recognized by the Korean government. We are NOT affiliated with ANY other US organization of the same name.
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