Time on the mat, with a master who has given his life to it

Each class follows the same five parts: an arrival ritual, structured breathing, martial arts movement, a short reflection on feelings, and a closing ritual. Your child always knows what comes next.

Children with a diagnosis and children without one train side by side and work toward the same belts.

The belt system gives children a clear next step and a record of what they have mastered. Each belt asks for new movement, steadier breath and more control.

Master Kim teaches the history, etiquette and principle of a movement before the technique. In his classes, higher-rank students have shown what they understand by writing a storybook, composing a song or designing a game about what they learned.

Belts mark skill, never diagnosis. A child moves at their own pace, and belts are earned in person, on the mat.

TRUETH teaches martial arts the way they began: as a way of life. Master Kim's rule for any class is that it must educate, motivate and be fun. Miss one and the practice weakens.

We do not compete with other schools or chase tournaments. We keep the art authentic, and we say what we do and do what we say.

Grand Master Won Kuk Kim is the son of Supreme Grandmaster Bok Man Kim, one of the founding originators of Taekwondo in Korea, as TRUETH's mission statement records. Master Kim has practiced martial arts for more than sixty years and has spent more than thirty of them teaching neurodivergent children in Greater Seattle.

He studied ten disciplines, Hapkido, Aikido, Kenpo, Taekwondo, Karate, Thai Boxing, Kung Fu, Judo, Ninjutsu and Gumdo, and treated them like branches of one tree. He followed each branch back to the root they share: breath, movement and the alignment of mind and body. TRUETH Jin Sun Do is that root, written down and taught to children.

Every TRUETH student joins that line. Instructors Master Kim certifies carry it forward, and the children they teach carry it after them.

• Past: Supreme Grandmaster Bok Man Kim and the founding of Taekwondo.
• Present: Grand Master Won Kuk Kim and the TRUETH academy in Woodinville.
• Future: certified TRUETH instructors and chartered TRUETH centers.

• Our safeguarding policy requires background checks and safeguarding training for everyone who teaches children.
• Our physical contact policy will set out how instructors guide a child's movement, and every enrolling family will receive it.
• We talk with each family about sensory needs, communication differences and support during class before the first class.
• Washington law (RCW 26.44.030) makes people who coach or train children mandated reporters of suspected abuse, and we follow it.

Families choose a tuition level from our published bands. Tuition supports program delivery. We never ask for proof of income.

Woodinville is TRUETH's founding academy, where we plan to document and review every program before it travels. Martial arts schools, community centers and clinics that share our standards can apply to charter a TRUETH center.