Current Instructors

Master Peter Lee is an internationally certified 6th dan Master under Grandmaster Keun Ha Kim in Canada. He has been training in Taekwondo for over 25 years and has been teaching adults since the age of 14. He is a nationally certified referee and has competed at the national level in both Canada and the U.S. Previously, he was the head instructor and coach for the Brown University Taekwondo Club before coming to Harvard to serve as the club's Master Instructor.

Outside of Taekwondo, Master Lee is a surgical resident at Tufts Medical School. He has 5 academic degrees: a M.D./Ph.D from Brown Medical and Brown Graduate School, a Masters of Public Health from Harvard School of Public Health, a Masters of Space Studies from the International Space University in France, and a B.S. in neuroscience from Brown University. His research interests are in biotechnology, aerospace medicine and space biology where he has had experiments on the space shuttle and on NASA's microgravity airplane (KC-135). He is a Captain in the United States Air Force Auxiliary and enjoys flying, scuba diving, and rock climbing. Currently, he is completing a surgical residency at Tufts Medical School.

Master Tang originally trained in Kung Fu and Tai Chi under his father in Hong Kong. He became interested in Taekwondo at the age of 20 after watching the movie "Best of the Best", and started training in 1993 under Grandmaster S.W. Park of Portsmouth, N.H. Currently, he is a 4th dan black belt. Master Tang is a 3-time U.S. National Champion, 2000 U.S. Collegiate National Team member, 2003-2004 U.S. National Team Member, 1999-2000 Olympic Training Center Resident Athlete, and has competed in the World Championships.

For many years, Master Tang used to drive 4 hours each way to train with 1992 Olympic gold medalist Herb Perez, and also trained with 2000 Olympic Head Coach Young In Cheon from 1998-99. He lived in Sugarland, Texas while on the US National Team to train with 2004 U.S. Olympic Coach Jean Lopez, Master Paris Amani & the rest of the ELITE Team, where he considers playing soccer every day with the team to be his favorite training experience.

Master Tang is the oldest of seven children (5 sisters and one brother), three of whom are also taekwondo black belts. In the summer of 2000, he taught taekwondo to the U.S. Olympic Ski Team as a part of the U.S Team's cross training program. He currently trains athletes in New England. He owns and operates Tang's Olympic Taekwondo and has formed his own taekwondo team, Team New England, creating and training National Champions with the support of other TKD schools in the region. Master Tang credits taekwondo and his instructors/mentors with changing the direction and focus of his life. In his spare time he enjoys filming, editing, photograpy, watching movies, cooking, EATING and being with family and friends.

See Master Tang's full USA Taekwondo profile.

Edwin Yoo was a biology concentrator at Harvard College and enjoyed the beautiful architecture of Pforzheimer House from his spacious single in Currier House. Edwin devoted 15 years of his life to the violin until one day he rented "Drunken Master 2" from Tokyo Kid in 1994. He quit HRO the very next day and started learning taekwondo. One of the co-founders of HTKD, he earned his 1st dan black belt the spring of 1999, his 2nd dan in May 2003, and his 3rd dan in April 2006.

When not checking his email, Edwin is rock climbing, snowboarding, scuba diving, avoiding responsibility, rescuing kittens, but no longer taking Advair. (Advair saved his life two years ago but it stopped working this year so he's back to benadryl which doesn't really work either but at least he gets to sleep even more.) In his quest to never leave Harvard, he recently began his Ph.D studies in biomechanics in the Organismic and Evolutionary Biology department and is a Lowell House non-resident tutor.

Calvin Huang graduated from Harvard College in 2002 and from Tufts Medical School in 2006. He is from Newark, DE. After starting Taekwondo with HTKD at the end of his freshman year, he earned his 1st dan black belt in 2002 and his 2nd dan in 2004.

Calvin is also a black belt in Kenpo Karate, which he has been studying since the age of six. He enjoys watching anime, playing with computers, paintball, reading, tennis, and "accidently" maiming Will. He likes cats, hamsters, and hanging out with HTKD peeps. He dislikes dogs and the cockroaches that infest his bathtub. Currently, he is completing an ER residency at Mass General and Brigham and Women's hospitals.

Emma's passion and exceptional talent for Taekwondo first became apparent in 2003 while she attended a Harvard summer program. Her career started seven years ago when she was given the choice between Chinese traditional dance or Korean martial arts. Allowing her inner fighter to decide, Wu enrolled in Min's Taekwondo school in Richardson, Texas. She perservered despite initial coordination difficulties, and she is currently a first dan. Emma has competed at multiple Senior Nationals, medaling in both forms and sparring, and plans to continue competing at the national level and in the INCTL.

Emma is currently a Mather resident concentrating in linguistics and biochemistry. Outside of TKD and studying, she spends her time eating cookies, blogging, kicking people for fun, and making embarrassing jokes about her medicinal properties.

James Bui makes it known that little people rock. Also known as Air Bui for his amazing flying jump kicks, James began taekwondo in 1983 after getting beat up by some other kids. He earned his black belt just eight months later, surviving an "old school" style taekwondo club where the instructor would swat his calves with a bamboo stick if he didn't jump high enough, and where he couldn't move from a position, speak, ask questions, or even blink if the instructor was standing in front of the class.

James disagreed with this teaching style, which involved many repititous movements with no explanation of how to do them, and began developing his own training style while teaching taekwondo in college. For ten years he trained and meditated on a hill and in the woods, running up mountains and kicking tree stumps and other hard objects to strengthen his bones and muscles (yes, we're serious, and yes, he still kicks trees...we strongly advise you not to get in the way). James more recently began training in hapkido and earned his second black belt in May 2006.

Currently, James is working as a lab technician at Harvard Medical School and hopes to pursue a Ph.D in biology. Outside of work and training, he likes to cook and eat, tinker with computers and cars, travel, dance, and be a ham in front of an audience. He loves to hang out with people from the club to find out what is unique about each person and what makes them tick.

Dan is a large, slow moving mammal from the city and state of New York, where he attended the same high school as Annie. Outside the club he is known for his sluggish ways and inability to focus on anything. In the club he is known as the Crazy Israeli because of some incidents in the sparring ring. Last year he was been transported to the awesomest of houses, Quincy, for safe-keeping. If not in Quincy, he can be found in the Kong with Annie and other HTKD folk or his block mates.

Dan has much free time because he is the master of schedule making. It also helps that he is a WGS concentrator. In his free time he enjoys sleeping, eating, going to every practice ever, not having finals or pre-noontime classes and trying to find the only other full WGS concentrator in his class. He does not enjoy BS50 and is glad its reign of terror has ended.

When not training, Dan enjoys thinking about training, preparing to train, and recruiting other people to train with him. He earned his black belt with HTKD in 2006.

Geoff Svacha, also known as the Captain (for reasons which become apparent at any TKD party), is very, very old. It is understood that Geoff came from what today is Michigan. Nowadays, Geoff does a lot of physics and a lot of TKD, earning his black belt with the club in 2006. Despite his age, Geoff still knows how to bring it, and will most likely be doing just that at a sparring ring near you at any given moment.

Although Geoff spars lightweight, in real life, he is no lightweight. In his free time, he enjoys demonstrating this...many times over. He also enjoys action/martial arts movies, snowboarding/skiing and showing off his mad Korean skillz. The man has, in fact, been referred to as a "really ass-kickin Korean rap star disguised as a nice white guy." When not speaking Korean and partying, you will find Geoff chilling with the ever growing men's grad student posse of HTKD.

Jen Trieu is an alum of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She hails from San Jose, California, where the weather is beautiful and the people are awesome! She has lived in the Bay Area for most of her life, starting taekwondo at UC Berkeley in August 1999. She moved to Boston in May 2003 and earned her black belt back at UC Berkeley in December 2003.

Jen's hobbies include eating, working out, eating, sleeping, and eating some more! She loves watching Alias, Buffy, and Smallville, or any other show where women kick butt and/or there's some kind of supernatural element. She dreams of marrying Dean Cain one day , likes to jog along the Charles River, and enjoys taking walks at night and staring at the stars. She can't live without ice cream, candy, sugary cereals, and pasta.