Head Instructor: Master Michael Lee
Club Contact: Stephanie Aligbe
Contact email: Cutkd212@gmail.com
Web site: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/taekwondo/

Established in the early 1980s, the Columbia University Taekwondo Club is one of the founding members of the Eastern Collegiate Taekwondo Conference (formerly known as the Ivy-Northeast Collegiate Taekwondo League). Its first instructor, Grand Master Lee Byung Moo, was one of the pioneers of Taekwondo. Grand Master Lee was one of the ten original students of General Choi Hong Hi. The original ten were tasked with bringing Taekwondo to the world, and prior to teaching in the USA, Grand Master Lee taught in Singapore – including teaching the Singapore Army. As well as teaching at Columbia, Grand Master Lee ran a school in Queens.
In the 1990s Grand Master Lee retired from teaching and focused on running the successful Honda Martial Arts Supply Company, which has been the largest martial arts supply distributer in the East Coast for many years.

In 1991 Grand Master Lee gave the head teaching responsibility to his son, Master Michael Lee, who has been practicing Taekwondo for over 30 years. Under Master Lee’s tutelage, over 100 Columbia students have become black belts. Master Lee also runs the Masters Martial Arts school in Syosset, Long Island.

The club is also instructed by Master M. Sohail Ali Khan, long-time friend of Master Lee. Master Khan is an Olympic coach and coach for New York State. He teaches at Khan Taekwondo in Queens when he is not coaching overseas.