Master Chang began learning Taekwondo at the age of ten. His Master was Lee Jong-woo, who is now vice president of Kukkiwon. His first teaching job was in the military, where he was the Korean marines Taekwondo instructor and member of their competition team. When he left the military, Master Chang opened the Sangrok gym in 1979 with the aim of spreading the practice and beliefs of Taekwondo to those outside Korea. While working to achieve that aim Master Chang has taught Taekwondo to students from many countries. He founded Indian Taekwondo and many of his non-Korean pupils have opened their own gyms around the world. There are now Sangrok gyms in England, Norway, US, Israel, Germany, Australia and India.
Master Chang represents a life time of Taekwondo experience. He is extremely good at taking any students, beginner or instructor to the next level of their Taekwondo. The Sangrok way of Taekwondo is Master Chang’s fluid, dynamic and unified style of Taekwondo. He has been developing and thinking about the best way to practice Taekwondo over the past forty years putting him in a position to answer any questions about why we do things the way we do in Taekwondo.
Master Chang understands well both the traditional style of Taekwondo and the modern styles. He has helped students who have learned the many different styles of Taekwondo in the world today. Master Chang respects that students have learned differently and because he has been teaching foreigners for so long, is very good at showing them the next step in their Taekwondo.
Master Chang is based in South Korea, and is represented in Australia by Pravin Bhatia.