Master Ju was born on March 20th, 1966 near Jecheon in South Korea. He began practicing Hapkido at the age of 7, and after 18 years of daily practice, he opened his own school, the “EulJiKwan Dojang” in Jecheon in 1991. Five years later he then started to practice Teakgyeon and soon began to teach it a few years later. He is currently 8th Dan in Hapkido and 7th Dong of Taekgyeon.

Grand Master Ju is responsible for the ChungCheong Buk Do region at the Korea Hapkido Federation, as well as the official instructor of the Jecheon police. Master Ju started to teach internationally in the early 2000s in order to introduce Hapkido and Taekgyeon abroad. Every year, a growing number of people follow his teachings and pupils invite him to give seminars in many countries such as France, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Bulgaria, Greece, Kingdom of Bahrain, Turkey, Malaysia, Morocco, Ghana, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Angelo, Denmark, Sri Lanka, Australia, Brazil.

He founded in 2013, the group for development and research of the Korean martial arts, which he became president of in 2015. Then, in 2016, he founded the “Euljikwan World Union” to unify Korean and Overseas Masters and to promote Euljikwan around the world. His school and also called style, Eul Ji Kwan, is mainly focused on joint control. However, it is a very complete style including a lot of kicks, hand strikes, falling techniques and even forms.