Dr Grandmaster G Ong

Dr Grandmaster G Ong

IX Dan, PhD

Founder & President


Dr Grandmaster G Ong’s passion in martial arts was ignited in 1972 when he was a young teenager who started his martial arts training in Shorin-Ryu Karate in a small southern town of Malaysia, he later joined the famous Malaysian developed Budokan Karate in his higher rank in the mid 70’s when he moved the capitol city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

 

In the late 70’s, Dr Grandmaster G Ong came in contact with Taekwondo while pursuing his tertiary education in Canada and was later inspired by this Korean martial arts when he returned to Malaysia and took up Taekwondo training under the late Grandmaster Ally CH Teoh who was one of the earliest non-Korean Taekwondo practitioners when the late Founder of Taekwondo, General Choi Hong Hi introduced Taekwondo to Malaysia in his first propagation campaign in 1959 through 1962.   

His scholastic aptitude drove Dr Grandmaster G Ong to study the Taekwondo martial arts in depth and the aspects of its scientifically developed techniques.  The fact that many movements of the original Taekwondo were developed at the physical lab of MIT fortified such desire to continue his Taekwondo training physically and academically for over 40 years unceasingly. 

Dr Grandmaster G Ong has a rich background in the business sector as an entrepreneur with over 35 years of business involvements in various fields internationally.  His academic credentials are valuable foundations as he takes up the study of martial arts in his early years with core foundation built on the Taekwondo discipline. His acumen in people and experience in the business world have equipped him with such attributes and traits to be a leader of the pack.   Dr Grandmaster G Ong possesses such virtue of qualities which are backed by his academic credentials, his martial arts training, and his business experience.

After leaving the previous organization he served for over a decade, Dr Grandmaster G Ong founded the International Taekwondo Confederation in 2020 with some top notched professionals and high ranking martial artists who share the same vision with common goal to have a unique and unmatched martial arts organization.