Martial arts and spirituality

Are you curious to find out how a woman who was once tagged by her family as a curse just for being a girl as their firstborn has become “The Highest Ranking Females Martial Artist in the World”? Then go to Tae Yun Kim - Wikipedia and read more about her there.

Here are some facts about this amazing woman named Tae Yun Kim…

• Tae Yun Kim was actually born Kyong Ae Kim in February 2, 1946 and as you know, she is the eldest daughter in her family.
• She married in the late 1960’s and took her husband’s name, and became Kyong Ae Fontaine.
• They immigrated to the United States on August 24th, 1970. Kim entered the US initially in Seattle, WA. She then moved to White River Junction, Vermont.
• She became a defendant in a federal “Sham Marriage” Trial - Burlington Free Press on March 24, 1982.
• Unfortunately for her, the marriage with Mark Fontaine didn’t last. Kim divorced her first husband of approximately 20 years in the late 1980’s.
• Kim then changed her name to Tae Yun, and her school’s name to Jung SuWon, in approximately 1990.
• She converted to Mormon in the early 90’s.
• Kim married a wealthy Utah business man’s son. But the marriage didn’t last as well. It was subsequently annulled in a court action.

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