SC 343961 FEC-50-4513 - 18 July 1950

"WAR IN KOREA: Col. Choi Hong Hi, South Korean Army G-2, holding a Russian type PPSh sub machine gun, with a 72 round magazine, captured near Hamchang, Korea." NARA / Courtesy of the National Institute of Korea History. * Uploader's note: Col. Choi Hong-hi (최홍희, 1918-2002), "the Founder of Taekwondo" - CG, ROK 29th Division, 1953; CG, ROK VI Corps, 1961; retired as MG, 1962; founded International Taekwon-do Federation (ITF), 1966; exile in Canada, 1972; defected to North Korea, 1979. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi_Hong-hi

Date

1950

Photographer / author

Faces of ROK: Korean War Photographs

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

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1,363 × 1,134 pixels

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