the subject of hapkido self-defense and hankido. In the 1980s Myung Jae Nam started working on the development of his own unique martial art, which was later called hankido (한기도). He wanted to develop a martial art for the people of Korea, which would be simple and easy to learn. Hankido's core consists of only twelve basic techniques. Myung Jae Nam once said that it is better learn one technique a thousand times instead of practicing a thousand different techniques. In the years after the first Hapkido Games, he traveled around the world to promote his unique style and his own organization, the International Hapkido Federation. This organization has its headquarters in Yong-In, Korea, and in 1996 included well over one million members worldwide in fifty countries. He started the development of another sword art called Hankumdo (한검도) which gives the foreign practitioner a chance to learn the Korean alphabet, hangul. Personal life Myung Jae Nam married his wife Yang Sun Bok in 1965. They had three children, two boys and one daughter. Death On August 3, 1999, Myung Jae Nam died in Yong-In, Korea from stomach cancer. His first son Myung Sung Kwang, is now the 2nd doju, of the International H·K·D Federation - Jae Nam Musul Won. His older twin brother Myung Jae Ok survives him teaching his own martial art which he founded based upon circular motion called Hoi Jeon Moo Sool. See also Korean martial arts List of people of Korean descent References External links International H.K.D. Federation Headquarters Martial arts school founders South Korean hapkido practitioners 1938 births 1999 deaths Deaths from stomach cancer 20th-century philanthropists