His claimed earliest recollections of training are around the time General Choi was appointed as Korea's Ambassador to Malaysia.
Choi spent his early childhood training on the lawn of the Embassy compound, as there were no dojangs established at that point.
He allegedly offered that General Choi should remain ITF President for the first 2 years of that term as to give him the opportunity to "retire with dignity" in 2003.
[7] In 1983 Choi was convicted in Canada on charges that he conspired to assassinate the President of South Korea Chun Doo-Hwan.
[8][9] He was convicted in absentia, and travelled as a Taekwon-Do instructor in the then Eastern Bloc nations; mainly Yugoslavia and in the DPRK as well.