Bo Young Kim

Grandmaster Bo Young Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, on 11 January 1956 and began studying Taekwondo at an early age. He completed an instructor course and taught in the Republic of Korea Army and at the Kukkiwon headquarters in Korea, and he holds a Kukkiwon 8th dan.^[1] He taught in Seoul, Guadalajara in Mexico and Las Vegas, and taught hundreds of students to black belt.^[1]

He founded Eagle Taekwondo in Las Vegas in 1986, served as president of the Las Vegas Korean Association and worked as an international referee for the United States Tae Kwon Do Union. He died on 30 April 2008, and his two daughters continued the academy.^[1]