The Road of Taekwondo

Photographs by Gyoung-Youl Jeong

June 1–August 13, 2006
Porch Gallery

Photojournalist Gyoung-Youl Jeong, living far from his home in Korea as a visiting scholar in the United States, was looking to investigate what was for him an alien American South. By chance he stumbled onto something that reminded him of home—a flyer from a martial arts studio. Taekwondo is a modern (circa 1910) Korean martial art form, in which Jeong holds a Black Belt. He spent eight months in a Chapel Hill dojang (training center) with his camera, documenting this familiar, yet not so familiar, practice that leads “to the land of health, calm, and happiness.”







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Partial view of the Lyndhurst Gallery, one of four exhibition spaces at CDS. Photograph by Christoper Sims.


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