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Lee's Martial Arts Academy celebrates new home

Studio now entering its sixth year in Wilsonville

• By: Josh Kulla  
• Published: 2/26/2010 3:43:36 PM
• Last Updated: 2/26/2010 4:39:51 PM

Photo By: Josh KullaLee's Martial Arts
Lee's Martial Arts Academy recently celebrated the opening of its new studio with a ribbon cutting and performance by its demonstration team.

Opening a new business in the current economic climate understandably takes an act of faith.

And that’s exactly what Julie Lee and her husband, Master C.Y. Lee, both natives of South Korea, understood when they opened Lee’s Martial Arts Academy in Wilsonville over five years ago.

Now, entering their sixth year, they are celebrating a recent move to a new studio in Town Center Square that formerly hosted 24-Hour Fitness.

The Lees held a grand opening open-house event on Monday, Feb. 22, with appearances by city officials, including Wilsonville Mayor Tim Knapp, as well as local business leaders. A ribbon-cutting was held, along with an athletic and acrobatic demonstration by the Academy’s renownded demonstration team.

Their first studio was in a strip mall just north of the Wilsonville Post Office. It grew to become a familiar sight to local residents as the Lee’s established themselves and their business.

Specializing in TaeKwonDo and Hapkido, Master Lee not only holds a degree in combative martial arts from South Korea’s Yong-In University, he has accumulated over 20 years of teaching experience, including a stint instructing the South Korean national Hapkido squad.

At the same time, he has continued his own studies and currently holds a sixth-degree Black Belt in Hapkido and a fifth-degree Black Belt from the World TaeKwonDo Federation.

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