Greenville’s Byung Lee of King Tiger Taekwondo recently earned his ninth-degree black belt, the highest achievement in the martial art of taekwondo, and penned a book of poetry published in Korea.

Both books - “Foundations of Taekwondo: History, Theory, Academics Arts” and “Martial Meditation: Philosophy and the Essence of the Martial Arts” were written by Dr. Daeshik Kim and Dr. Allan Bäck and ...