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- Han Jae Ji was born in 1936 in Andong, Korea. He was an actor, known for Lady Kung Fu (1972), The Dragon Tamers (1975) and Bruce Lee and I (1973). He died on January 28, 2026 in Arizona, USA.
- One of the highest ranking hapkido masters in the world, Grandmaster Ji was once the personal bodyguard and head of security for former South Korean president Park Chung-hee.
- There is a general disagreement on just who founded the martial art of hapkido - Ji or his former teacher, Choi Yong-sul.
- Opened Seongmu-gwan in Seoul in 1957.
- He moved to San Francisco, USA in 1984 and started to spread Aikido locally with the 'Shinmu Aikido', and mainly lived in the United States and worked hard to globalize Aikido.
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