Oh Se-lim

Oh Se-Lim (Korean: 오세림) was an early Korean hapkido practitioner and a pioneer of the art. He had been the president of the Korea Hapkido Federation for 18 years.

In this Korean name, the family name is Oh.

Oh Se-Lim
Born	오세림 Korea
Other names	Oh Se-Rim
Residence	Seoul
Nationality	South Korea
Style	Hapkido
Trainer	Ji Han-Jae
Rank	former president of KHF, Grandmaster
Other information
Occupation	Martial artist
Notable relatives	Kwon Tae-Man (fellow)
Notable club(s)	Korea Hapkido Federation (KHF)
Notable school(s)	Sung Moo Kwan, An Moo Kwan
Last updated on: 2010-02-24

Oh Se-lim
Hangul	오세림
RR	O Serim
MR	O Serim

Life

Oh began his study of hapkido at Ji Han-Jae (지한재)'s first hapki yukwonsool school, the An Moo Kwan (안무관) in Andong, Gyeongsangbuk-do. Fellow students were Kwon Tae-Man (권태만), and Yoo Young-Woo (유영우).

He continued training at Majang, Seongdong, Seoul in 1957. Oh joined other senior practitioners already training in Seoul at that time, early hapkido practitioners Hwang Deok-Kyoo (황덕규; latter day president of the Korea Hapkido Association), Myung Kwang Sik (명광식; latter day founder of the World Hapkido Federation), Lee Tae Jun (이태준), Kim Yong-Jin (김용진; founder of the Ulji Kwan), Kang Jong-Soo (강종수), and Kim Yong-Whan.^[1]

Accomplishments

Oh Se-Lim was elected the president of the Korea Hapkido Association in 1980. By 1983 Oh Se-Lim, with political problems and many of the original founding members of the Korea Hapkido Association departing (Ji Han-Jae, Myung Jae-Nam), renamed the association by the name first used by the organization he had first been a part of with Master Ji, the Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe (대한 합기도 협회), with a new preferred English rendering; the Korea Hapkido Federation (KHF). Master Oh resigned the position of the president of the KHF, that was succeeded by Kim Jong-Yoon (김종윤) in 2008.^[2][3]

See also

• Korean martial arts
• Hapkido