Editing Dae Sung Lee

{{short description|American martial artist}}
{{BLP sources|date=February 2010}}
{{family name hatnote|Lee||lang=Korean}}
{{Infobox martial artist
| name = Dae Sung Lee
| image =Daesung2.jpg 
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| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}}
| birth_place = Seoul, South Korea
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| residence = [[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii]], United States
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| martial_art = [[Taekwondo]]
| rank = 7th ''dan''  black belt
| school = US Taekwondo Center Hawaii
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{{Infobox Korean name
| hangul = 이대성
| hanja  = {{linktext|李|大|成}}
| rr     = I Dae-seong
| mr     = Yi Taesŏng
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'''Dae Sung Lee''' (born 1958) is a [[Korean American|Korean-American]] master of [[taekwondo]] who holds the rank of 7th ''[[Dan rank|dan]]''. Lee is a 10-time US national taekwondo team member and two-time Olympic coach.<ref name="Whang1999">Whang, S. C., Whang, J. C., & Saltz, B. (1999): ''Taekwondo: The state of the art''. New York: Broadway Books. ({{ISBN|978-0-7679-0214-4}})</ref> He served as taekwondo coach for the US Summer Olympic team in 1992.

==Early life==
Lee was born in 1958 in [[Seoul]], South Korea, and began studying taekwondo at the age of 11. He moved to [[Hawaii]] in 1971 with his family. Lee graduated from [[Moanalua High School]] in 1977 and obtained a [[bachelor's degree]] from the [[University of Hawaii at Manoa]] in 1987, double majoring in political science and physical education.

Lee considers masters Randy Kuk Do Chun of Honolulu and [[Sang-chul Lee (taekwondo)|Sang Chul Lee]] of [[Colorado Springs, Colorado|Colorado Springs]] as his main teachers. Both Chun and Lee came from the [[Jidokwan]] style of taekwondo.

==Competitive taekwondo career==
Lee is a nine-time US National Champion (1979–1987), a 10-time US National Team Member (1979–1987, 1989), and has won medals at the [[World Taekwondo Championships]], [[World Games]], International Collegiate Taekwondo Championships, [[Pan American Games]], and [[Pan American Taekwondo Championships]]. His competition record includes:
* 1989: US Taekwondo Team Trials (Fin): gold
* 1988: US Taekwondo Team Trials (Fin): silver
* 1987: World Taekwondo Championships (Fin): bronze; Pan American Games (Fin): gold; US Taekwondo Team Trials (Fin): gold; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold<ref name="Rosenthal1987">Rosenthal, J. (1987): "13th U.S. Tae Kwon Do Championships: Preview to 1988 Olympic Games?" ''Black Belt'', 25(8):46–50.</ref>
* 1986: World Cup Taekwondo Championships (Fin): bronze; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
* 1985: World Taekwondo Championships (Fin): silver; World Games Taekwondo (Fin): bronze; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
* 1984: Pan American Taekwondo Championships (Fly): gold; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fly): gold
* 1983: International Collegiate Taekwondo Championships (Fin): gold; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
* 1982: Pan American Taekwondo Championships (Fin): gold; World Taekwondo Championships (Fin): bronze; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
* 1981: World Games Taekwondo (Fin): silver; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold<ref name="VanAllen1981">Van Allen, P. (1981): "7th National Tae Kwon Do Championships." ''Black Belt'', 19(10):18, 97.</ref>
* 1980: AAU Tae Kwon Do National Championships (Fin): gold<ref name="Hanson1980">Hanson, J. (1980): "AAU Tae Kwon Do National Championships and Goodwill Meet." ''Black Belt'', 18(9):42–44.</ref>
* 1979: World Taekwondo Championships (Fin): bronze; US Taekwondo National Championships (Fin): gold
* 1977: US Taekwondo National Championships (Fly): bronze

==Coaching career==
Lee served as an assistant taekwondo coach for the USA at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]]  and as taekwondo coach for the USA at the [[1992 Summer Olympics]]. He was also head coach of the [[Colorado Springs, Colorado|Colorado Springs]] Olympic Training Center's Resident Athlete Program for taekwondo from 1988–1993. Lee has operated the US Taekwondo Center in Aina Haina from 1993 to early 2000 and has trained over 10,000 students.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lee Dae Sung |url=https://hawaiisportshalloffame.com/lee-dae-sung.html |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=hawaiisportshalloffame.com}}</ref> In 2004, he was removed from the position of taekwondo coach for the USA team due to compete at the Summer Olympics in Athens.<ref name="Barayuga2004">Barayuga, D. (2004): [http://archives.starbulletin.com/2004/07/29/news/story2.html Isle coach sues over Olympic team role: The lawsuit fights his ouster as U.S. coach for tae kwon do] ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'' (July 29, 2004). Retrieved on September 14, 2011.</ref>

Lee was also active in the [[United States Taekwondo Union]] (USTU), holding positions on the Athlete's Advisory Committee and serving as Chairman of the USTU's Tournament Committee and Junior Olympic Committee.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} He was a founding member of the United States Taekwondo Committee (USTC), which was created in August 2007, and had served as Secretary General of the organization.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} In 2007, Lee was approached by the Chinese Taekwondo Association to coach the Chinese Olympic Taekwondo Team for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} Lee accepted and relocated to Beijing, China, for the one year period leading up to the event. Lee served as the Chinese Team's Head Coach at the 2007 World Taekwondo Championships, the 2007 Korea Open Taekwondo Championships, the Good Luck Beijing 2008 International Taekwondo Invitational Tournament, and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} His international coaching record includes:
* 2008: Beijing Olympic Games; Good Luck Beijing 2008 International Taekwondo Invitational Tournament
* 2007: Korea Open Taekwondo Championships; World Taekwondo Championships
* 2003: World Taekwondo Championships; US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 2002: US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 2001: World Taekwondo Championships; US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 2000: US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 1999: World Olympic Qualification Tournament; World Taekwondo Championships; US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 1998: US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 1997: World Taekwondo Championships; US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 1996: US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 1995: World Taekwondo Championships; US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 1994: US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 1993: World Taekwondo Championships; US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 1992: Barcelona Olympic Games; US Open Taekwondo Championships
* 1991: World Taekwondo Championships
* 1989: World Taekwondo Championships
* 1988: Seoul Olympic Games

On February 24, 2009, Lee was inducted into the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame as a longtime contributor to taekwondo in Hawaii.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lee Dae Sung |url=https://hawaiisportshalloffame.com/lee-dae-sung.html |access-date=2022-03-25 |website=hawaiisportshalloffame.com}}</ref>

==Personal==
Since 1993, Lee has been married to Heon Mi Lee,{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} and they have two children: Nikita and Daven Lee.{{citation needed|date=September 2011}}

==See also==
*[[List of Korean Americans]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://starbulletin.com/2004/07/29/news/story2.html Isle coach sues over Olympic team role: The lawsuit fights his ouster as U.S. coach for tae kwon do] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050920124209/http://starbulletin.com/2004/07/29/news/story2.html |date=2005-09-20 }}

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