Hwang Kee was the licensor of all Moo Duk Kwan® schools in South Korea. In 1964 the Korean government launched the Taekwondo movement to eliminate all the individual kwans in Korea and replace them with only Taekwondo. The government sponsored Taekwondo movement did not recognize individual kwans and did not use any of their names (including MOO DUK KWAN®) in any official way. After all, the very purpose of the Taekwondo movement was to eliminate individual kwans like Hwang Kee’s Moo Duk Kwan®. Unfortunately, some instructors who disassociated from Hwang Kee’s Moo Duk Kwan® organization and joined the Taekwondo movement chose to use his well known Moo Duk Kwan® name for their individual advantage and in doing so misrepresented themselves and their services to the public and became infringers of his trademarks.
