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After the Championship,
Dr. Kimm found out the funds to house the Kuk Sool students from
the United States and Mexico were not available. Chiefmaster Seo
In-sun told Dr. Kimm that the donations promised from corporate
sponsors did not come through. He also said that he was trying
to arrange for the Kuk Sool students to house the foreign students.
The American and Mexican students had been told to plan $650.00
for airline tickets, $50.00 (minimum) for gifts and $30.00 per
day for ten days for food and incidental expenses. Rooms and transportation
were supposed to be paid by the Association through donations
that had not gone through as previously planned. Dr. Kimm discussed
that matter with his father-in-law. He told Dr. Kimm that these
students had come to Korea because of him and for no other reason.
Dr. Kimm's father-in-law also said that Dr. Kimm was responsible
for the poor planning. He then suggested that Dr. Kimm bring the
sixty-two students who were his responsibility to Seoul so that
he could provide room and board for three days. Dr. Kimm followed
his father-in law's advice and informed Chiefmaster Seo of his
decision. He told Dr. Kimm that he would provide two trucks to
take the luggage from the hotel to the train station. The trucks
never arrived. It had been sprinkling rain all day. Dr. Kimm looked
around and saw that each person had two pieces of luggage. Decisions
had to be made immediately. Dr. Kimm informed the students that
the train would not wait for them, they only had one hour left
and it would take thirty minutes to walk. Dr. Kimm's father-in-law
then arranged to have a small truck come and pick up one piece
of luggage for each person and deliver it to the station. Each
student was asked to carry their second bag on the thirty minute
walk to the train station. Finally, the sixty-two students all
made it to the train (with only a few minutes to spare) for their
journey to Seoul. Most of the students had no idea what was going
on. The Mexican students gathered and began playing guitars and
singing. The American students drank coffee and fell asleep in
their wet clothes.
Upon their arrival in Seoul, they all stayed at the Book An (North
Mountain) Sky Hotel for three days. On a chartered bus, again
at the courtesy of Dr. Kimm's father-in-law, they visited the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a Korean folk village, and the Old Kyung
Bok Palace. They also had plenty of time for shopping. After three
days, all of the students left for their own homes without incident.
Dr. Kimm was very grateful to his father-in-law and his mind was
greatly relieved. Dr. Kimm went to his father-in-law and asked
him for the cost of the expenses that he had paid for Dr. Kimm's
students. He told Dr. Kimm that the trip was over and the students
were gone and he could afford the expenses financially and not
to ask any more questions about the expenses. Since this experience,
Dr. Kimm has not taken more than four students to Korea at a time.
The reason for this is that four students can ride in one car
and move about easily.
In 1985, Dr. Kimm published the book, Kuk Sool-Korean Martial
Arts. The book was seven hundred and sixty pages and contained
techniques from White Belt through 5th Degree Black Belt which
Dr. Kimm learned from grandmaster Suh. The order of the techniques
in his book and in the book published by Chiefmaster Seo were
not always the same. Dr. Kimm believed that Grandmaster Suh taught
the same way in the United States as he did in Korea. The order
was changed by Chiefmaster Seo. Dr. Kimm spent over $50,000 of
his personal money to publish his Kuk Sool book. Dr. Kimm spent
over two years taking photographs and writing the text for this
book. From a financial point of view, it was never repaid. However,
Dr. Kimm visited Grandmaster Lee Joo-bang, founder of the International
Hwa Rang Do Federation, he paid Dr. Kimm a wonderful compliment.
He said that Dr. Kimm's book had put Kuk Sool in the position
of "first rate" martial arts in this country. For the
first time, Dr. Kimm felt that, with this compliment coming from
him, it had been worth the money and time that it took to publish
the book.
Dr. Kimm moved to Freemont, California in 1987 due to the illness
of his father-in-law. Grandmaster Suh was living in the same city
and hey saw each other frequently. In 1989, they discussed Dr.
Kimm's future and Grandmaster Suh suggested that Dr. Kimm become
the President of the American Kuk Sool Association. Dr. Kimm told
him that since the World Kuk Sool Headquarters was located in
the United States, the duties of the two Associations would overlap
often. Dr. Kimm did not feel that it would be wise to create a
new Association. Grandmaster Suh understood Dr. Kimm's concerns
and suggested that Dr. Kimm create his own style of martial arts
and call it Yuh Kwon Sul. He then said that Dr. Kimm had accumulated
enough knowledge and experience in soo (self-defense) techniques
and hyungs (forms). He also offered his assistance but he did
not want to influence the formation of Dr. Kimm's new style. He
thought that Dr. Kimm should know that the basic elements of creating
new forms were softness like the flowing river, hardness like
a mountain rock, knowledge of 360 degree angles, and low and high
postures. Finally, before he gave Dr. Kimm his personal recommendation
to create a new style of martial art, he told Dr. Kimm that some
day, when people talk about the founders of Hankuk Musul (Korean
Martial Arts), he wanted to hear the name of Dr. Kimm He-young
along with Ji Han-jae and Suh In-hyuk.
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