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=== 1970s: Jhoon Rhee-style Taekwondo === {{distinguish|Rhee Taekwon-Do}} In 1962 [[Jhoon Rhee]], upon graduating from college in Texas, relocated to and established a chain of martial arts schools in the [[Washington, D.C.]] area that practiced Traditional Taekwondo.{{efn|name="Jhoon Rhee Traditional"|[[Tang Soo Do]], [[Chung Do Kwan]]}} In the 1970s, at the urging of [[Choi Hong-hi]], Rhee adopted ITF-style Taekwondo within his chain of schools, but like the GTF later departed from the ITF due to the political controversies surrounding Choi and the ITF. Rhee went on to develop his own style of taekwondo called Jhoon Rhee-style Taekwondo, incorporating elements of both traditional and ITF-style Taekwondo as well as original elements.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://jhoonrhee.com/bio.html|title = The Jhoon Rhee Story|access-date = September 7, 2014|website = Jhoonrhee.com|archive-date = February 18, 2015 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150218144156/http://jhoonrhee.com/bio.html|url-status = dead}}</ref>
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