Oh Se-lim

Oh Se-Lim was an early Korean hapkido practitioner and a pioneer of the art. He had been the president of the Korea [Hapkido Federation] for 18 years.

Life

Oh began his study of hapkido at Ji Han-Jae 's first hapki yukwonsool school, the An Moo Kwan in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Fellow students were Kwon Tae-Man, and Yoo Young-Woo.
He continued training at Majang, Seongdong, Seoul in 1957. Oh joined other senior practitioners already training in Seoul at that time, early hapkido practitioners Hwang Deok-Kyoo, Myung Kwang Sik, Lee Tae Jun, Kim Yong-Jin, Kang Jong-Soo, and Kim Yong-Whan.

Accomplishments

Oh Se-Lim was elected the president of the Korea Hapkido Association in 1980. By 1983 Oh Se-Lim, with political problems and many of the original founding members of the Korea Hapkido Association departing, renamed the association by the name first used by the organization he had first been a part of with Master Ji, the Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe, with a new preferred English rendering; the Korea Hapkido Federation. Master Oh resigned the position of the president of the KHF, that was succeeded by Kim Jong-Yoon in 2008.