Editing Hapkido (section)

===Ji Han-jae===
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[[File:Ji Han Jae et Choi Young Sool.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Grand Master Ji Han-jae (left) and Hapkido founder Choi Yong-sul (right).]]

Ji Han-jae (지한재) was undoubtedly the prime mover in the art of Korean hapkido. It is due to his physical skills, technical contributions, promotional efforts and political connections as head hapkido instructor to the presidential body guard under Korean President [[Park Chung Hee|Park Chung-hee]] that hapkido became popularized, first within Korea and then internationally.

If the martial art education of Choi Yong-sool is unconfirmed, the same must be said for martial art history of Ji Han-jae's training, apart from his time as a student of Choi. Ji was an early student (Dan #14) of Choi. He details that prior to opening his martial art school in [[Seoul]], the Sung Moo Kwan (성무관), he also supposedly studied from a man known as 'Taoist Lee' and an old woman he knew as 'Grandma'.<ref name=segye/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://taekwondo.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/01/12/2010011201527.html |title=태권도조선 – 태권도 전문 온라인 미디어 |publisher=Taekwondo.chosun.com |access-date=2015-10-28}}</ref>

As a teacher of hapkido, Ji incorporated traditional Korean kicking techniques (from Taoist Lee and the art Sam Rang Do Tek Gi) and [[Punch (strike)|punching]] techniques into the system and gave the resulting synthesis the name hapkido in 1957.

Although a founding member of the Korea Kido Association (대한기도회) in 1963 with Choi Yong-sool as titular chairman and Kim Jeong-yoon as Secretary General and Head Instructor for the association, Ji found himself not able to exert as much control over the organization as he might have wished. To this end and with the support of the Head of the Security Forces, Park Jong-kyu, Ji founded the very successful [[Korea Hapkido Association]] (대한 합기도 협회) in 1965.<ref name="Hapkido Bible"/>

Later, when this organization combined with the organizations founded by Myung Jae-nam (Korea Hapki Association/한국 합기회) and Kim Moo-Hong (Korean Hapkido Association/한국 합기도 협회) in 1973, they became the very extensive and influential organization known as the Republic of Korea Hapkido Association (대한민국 합기도 협회).

In 1984, after being released from prison for fraud, Ji moved first to [[Germany]] and then to the [[United States]], and founded [[Sin Moo Hapkido]] (신무 합기도), which incorporates philosophical tenets, a specific series of techniques (including kicks) and healing techniques into the art. Three of Ji Han-jae's notable students in Korea were [[Kwon Tae-man]] (권태만), [[Myung Jae-nam]] (명재남) and Chang Young-shil (장영실) who is the current president of the International Hapkido Federation. Ji can be seen in the films ''[[Hapkido (film)|Lady Kung-fu]]'' and ''[[Game of Death]]'' in which he takes part in a long fight scene against [[Bruce Lee]].

After the death of Choi Yong-sool in 1986, Ji came forward with the assertion that it was he who founded the Korean art of hapkido, asserting that Choi Yong-sool taught only [[yawara]] based skills and that it was he who added much of the kicking and weapon techniques we now associate with modern hapkido. The reality being that Grandmaster Choi Yong-sool taught him little of the original art and higher level techniques so he fabricated a new system on his own terms.<ref>Corcoran, John. ''Inside Taekwondo''. Vol.1, No.1. Feb. 1992. Article by James Dolmage ''Hapkido Grandmaster Ji Han-Jae Reveals the Truth; The Beauty and the Benefits of Hapkido'' CFW Enterprises. Burbank, USA. 1991.</ref> He also asserted that it was he who first used the term 'hapkido' to refer to the art. While both claims are contested by some of the other senior teachers of the art,<ref>According to published works by Seo Bok-Seob, [[Han Bong-Soo]], [[Myung Kwang-Sik]], Kim Jong-Seong, Jeong Kee-Tae, Spear, Robert K., etc.</ref> what is not contested is the undeniably huge contributions made by Ji to the art, its systematization and its promotion worldwide.