Chong Chul Rhee
South Korean martial artist
이종철
- Born
- 1935, Korea
- Died
- 27 October 2023, Sydney
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Sport
- taekwondo
- Occupation
- taekwondo athlete
Rhee Chong-chul (Korean: 이종철; Hanja: 李鐘鐵; b. (redacted due to inaccuracy) d. 27 October 2023) was a South Korean Master of Taekwondo who arrived to Australia in the 1960s. He is the founder of Rhee Taekwon-Do, which is widely publicised as Australia's first and biggest Taekwondo school. Rhee holds the title 'World Master' and the rank of 8th Dan in Taekwondo. He is one of the twelve Original Masters of Taekwondo of the Korea Taekwon-Do Association (KTA).[a]
Awards and honours
- Dongbaek Medal
External links
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Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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