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Martial
Arts Center opens at Wheeler
New York Tae Kwon Do leader Yeon Hwan Park, UB President Neil Albert Salonen, and UB Professor Yong Bum Kim, who heads the UB Martial Arts Program, cut the ribbon to formally open the Martial Arts Center. |
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grand masters in Tae kwon do and scores of youngsters
and young adults joined the university in formally opening
its new Martial Arts Centre in the Wheeler Recreation
Center.
The center will provide a home for a martial arts program
that is in its early stages of development at UB.
President Neil Albert Salonen welcomed a crowd of
150 people to the center and explained the university's
commitment to martial arts and its exploration of offering
an undergraduate major in Tae kwon do . He noted that
the university offers three martial art courses (Tae
kwon do, Won ha do and Tai chi), with more than 100
students enrolled. In South Korea, he said , 13 universities
offer the program as a major course of study .
Professor Yong Bum Kim is director of the martial arts
program at UB and is leading the effort to fully establish
the program .
Grand Master Yeon Hwan Park, who is president of the
Advisory Board for the UB Martial Arts Program and president
of the New York Tae Kwon Do Association presented the
university with a check for $10,000 to support the program.
Other support comes through a grant from the Chung Shim
Hospital Foundation in Korea.
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