Song, Jung Soo
(1917~1996)

Grandmaster Song, Jung Soo was the son of Grandmaster Song, Keum Sool.  Grandmaster Song, Jung Soo was sixteen years old when he traveled to Japan to study and research martial arts.  It was in Japan he lived for 5 years before returning to Korea where he met and married his wife.  After they married, they left Korea and settled in Manjoo (Manchuria), China.  It was here that Grandmaster Song, Jung Soo lived and furthered his study of Chinese martial arts for about 15 years.  After this time, Grandmaster Song, Jung Soo moved back to Korea.  

All the styles he studied and mastered, he did not mention even to his son Grandmaster Song, Kyong Sik, as he was a very humble man.  A couple of years later the Korean War broke. During the war, he did not belong to either military, North or South, because he was a nonpartisan man.

After the Korean War was over, he settled in Seoul, Korea and began to situate his life just like everyone else after the war in Korea. Several years later, he began to teach and to share with other people his martial art which he gained from his father and from his own dedication. He never believed in politics, therefore, he was never involved in the reformation of the martial arts. He insisted on maintaining the traditional martial arts. In 1967, Grand Master Song, Jung Soo inherited the OHTC system from his father, Grand Master Song, Keum Sool.

Manchuria (Manchu: Manju, Simplified Chinese: 满洲; Traditional Chinese: 滿洲; pinyin: Mǎnzhōu) is name given to a vast territorial region in northeast Asia. The part of Manchuria falls within the borders of the People's Republic of China is called Northeast China (Dongbei, literally "east-north").