Lee's athletes won 11 medals, including 3 golds and finished second to the South Korean team, which at the time was the best in the world.

In the summer of 1950, when Lee was 2 years old, the North Korean Army invaded South Korea.

When the North Korean Army invaded, the Lees lost contact with their daughter.

The toddler Lee was malnourished and he developed a bad rash, most likely erysipelas, which spread all over his body.

[3] Lee's martial arts training began at age 11, when he joined his first dojang.

His school was a style of Taekwondo called Jidokwan, roughly translated to 'the way of wisdom'.

Unfortunately, like Lee's sister, Sang-sup Chun was kidnapped by the North during the Korean War.

[4] The young Lee was quite adept at Jidokwan, earning his black belt within 2 years.

"[3] As a youngster, Lee also acquired a nickname, Woosong, due to his good nature and loyalty to his friends.

Although the country prided itself on its martial arts prowess, university scholarships were hard to attain.

The university accepted him, but since he did not have money to pay the entrance fee, which was around $5,000 at the time, he could not enroll.

The university agreed to waive the entrance fee and offered Lee a scholarship again to study law and to participate on its Taekwondo Team.

When his competition days ended, Lee coached his Marine's team to additional championships.

Because of Taekwondo, I went to college, got a scholarship, was named athlete of the year, received a Hall of Fame honor and became a national champion.

Across town, Lee faced heavy competition from the popular Karate Master Hidy Ochiai, who owned the biggest Martial Arts school in Binghamton.

Lee was undaunted despite his lack of business acumen and his limited English, and decided to employ a Korean Binghamton University student to translate for him.

The Lees instilled in their children the five tenets of Taekwondo: Respect, Integrity, Perseverance, Self Control, and Indomitable Spirit.

The children were taught to work hard, to achieve beyond their potential, and to give back to the community.

Sang-chul Lee is the most decorated US Olympic Taekwondo Head coach in history.

Lee heavily influenced reinvigorating Taekwondo sparring, often credited as developing the "Ax Kick".

He wanted more fluidity in the movement of his athletes so Lee visited a local Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Binghamton.

"[12] The US Team responded to these new innovations accordingly, attributing international competition winnings to the transition, and therefore culminating in the growing success at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.

Shortly after moving to Colorado Springs, Lee founded the US Taekwondo Center.

He wanted to build a world-class dojang where Olympic athletes could train and where he could showcase Taekwondo to international athletic directors, especially those from Eastern European Bloc countries when they came to visit the US Olympic Training Center.

Lee took out a loan of $250,000 backed by Dr. Pejo, the father of three of his students, to purchase the building and do the renovations.

The Woosong Foundation is a non-profit organization established to provide Taekwondo Scholarships to lower-income families.

1992: founder of US Open Taekwondo Championships 1988: innovator and producer of First Olympic Taekwondo Training Videos: "Get Ready for the Gold" Parts I & II 1987: Developed program for human adjustment to international travel for competitions with Dr. Jackie Paul of the US Olympic Sports Science Department 1986: Created for the first time a Taekwondo Resident Athlete Training Program at the US Olympic Training Center