[1] It is made up of predominantly Korean born students and instructors or those individuals who have directly trained in South Korea.

This organization is based in Seoul, South Korea and its president is Oh Se-Lim.

The prime movers in this organization were members of Ji's original 'Sung Moo Kwan'.

[3] The KHA later grew into the Republic of Korea Hapkido Association (Dae Han Min Gook Hyub Hoe) with the merging of Ji han Jae's 'Dae Han Hapkido Hyub Hoe', Kim Moo-Hong's 'Han Gook Hapkido Hyub Hoe' (Korean Hapkido Association) and Myung Jae Nam's 'Han Gook Hapki Hoe' (Korean Hapki Association) in 1973.

With a new preferred English rendering, the new Korea Hapkido Federation was born.