Kim Bok Man

South Korean martial artist

김복만

Born

3 December 1934, South Korea

Died

14 August 2021, West Orange

Citizenship

South Korea

Sport

taekwondo

Occupation

taekwondo athlete

Kim Bok-man (Korean: 김복만; Hanja: 金福萬; December 3, 1934 – August 14, 2021), 11th dan, was an early pioneer of taekwondo in the 1950s and 1960s in Southeast Asia, particularly Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong. He started martial arts training in the Korean art of taekyun in 1941 at 7. While he was a Sergeant Major in the South Korean army, he was called to Malaysia by General Choi Hong-hi Korea's ambassador, to teach taekwondo to members of the government party in Malaysia and subsequently to develop taekwondo, particularly some of the forms created by General Choi, and another martial art called Chun Kuhn taekwondo.

Bok-Man Kim died on August 14, 2021, at 86.

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q16095688 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.