INSTRUCTORS
Integrity
Tradition holds that those who seek knowledge in the martial arts are
persons of high character. In China, many of the most highly skilled “masters” had
deep moral and religious belief systems. In Japan, those who were in the rank of
warrior class were people of high character and lived by strict codes of ethics. In
Korea, the heritage of the Hwa-Rang-Do youth group helped unify the three kingdoms of
Korea in the year 688 A.D. They traveled throughout the country with the purpose of
cultivating moral and patriotic ideas among the Korean youth. Those who decide to
follow in the footsteps of other martial artists must be honest and pure of mind and
spirit, seeking to rid themselves of vice and impure motives in their lives.
