S H Kim Tae Kwon Do

I am sorry to say that I am not a fan of this tae kwon do studio. My 15-year old son is a black belt and has been studying there for a few years. The studio has only one teacher now and that is Master Kim. He used to have some other quality instructors but he has had almost no help for more than …

I am sorry to say that I am not a fan of this tae kwon do studio. My 15-year old son is a black belt and has been studying there for a few years. The studio has only one teacher now and that is Master Kim. He used to have some other quality instructors but he has had almost no help for more than one year now. Master Kim regularly works with lower belts and kids, but does very little with the higher belts. He has his hi-level students, who are paying him for training, run the high belt classes almost entirely on their own. Master Kim does very little to manage their classes, never demonstrates tae kwon do techniques himself, doesn’t provide them with much advanced training and doesn’t teach them how to be good instructors. Earlier this year, I came to my son's classes twice a week for four weeks in a row and Master Kim never once left his office during my son's classes. When I asked him what exactly I was paying him for he claimed that they were learning to be instructors and that I didn’t understand his techniques. I have done marshal arts training myself and been in many dojos and this is not how training is done. In my opinion, very few of his students have the skills corresponding to their belt level. They are regularly advanced regardless of their skill level. Master Kim also makes what I consider to be openly racist and mysogynistic remarks to me in conversation on a regular basis. He talks all the time during belt tests about the importance of mothers, but