Hwang In-Shik

Hwang In Shik (also Whang Ing-Sik, born September 13th, 1940) is one of the foremost Korean hapkido teachers today. A great popularizer of the art in Asia through his work in the Hong Kong based films of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Angela Mao, he is known nevertheless as one the top teachers of the art and was eventually awarded a 10th degree black belt, the highest rank possible in the art, by the World Hapkido Association. Born in Sunch'ŏn, north of Pyongyang in present day North Korea, Hwang In-Shik and his family moved to Seoul while he still a young child and it was there that he was first exposed to the martial arts, first to Tang Soo Do and then, when he was 13 years old, to the art of Korean hapkido. Hwang identifies his teacher...