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Article: Martial Arts Company Unwavering After Leader's Death.(World Traditional Taekwondo Union Inc.)
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- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- February 26, 2001
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THE DICTATORSHIP THAT WAS the World Traditional Taekwondo Union Inc. of Little Rock has been divided into three branches of government following the death of Grand Master Haeng Ung Lee.
Before he died Oct. 5 after a six-month battle with lung cancer, the founder of the world's largest martial arts organization realized that it was dangerous to have one man responsible for all operations and institutional memory. So he decreed that the company split its hierarchy into three units after his death.
"He knew that everything that he did was so hard to do," said Senior Master In Ho Lee, WTTU chief executive officer and one of H.U. Lee's five brothers. "He ...