After spending part of his life competing in Toronto, Canada, with Team Ontario, Hee Sung Moon moved to the United States and began training American students in taekwondo. However, the school at which he helped train students didn’t focus much on competition.
About five years ago, Master Moon took over one of the spaces at McKinley Plaza in Manahawkin and developed his own school, Korea Taekwondo Center. From there, his vision for devising a competition team developed slowly.
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