- Julian Lee was born in South Korea where he began his training in the martial arts very young to overcome his shyness. At the age of 14, he became the Gold medalist of the first Korean National (Junior) Taekwondo Championship organized by Chang Hun Ryu, aka General Choi Hong Hi (founder of Taekwondo) before moving to the United States. Lee's first experience in front of the camera was for a martial arts training video, Sul Sa Do: Korean Ninja Legacy. Its success led to the production of Tanto and the Sul Sa Transformer series of ten videos. In 1988 director Philip Roth asked Lee to do stunt fighting for the movie Bad Trip (1988). Roth was impressed by Lee's work on Bad Trip and MPI Entertainment offered to make another movie starring Lee. Julian, and his brother Tae, developed the story they called Gang Wars, which later became the movie Fatal Revenge (1989). Lee worked as executive producer on Ironheart (1992) which was distributed by Imperial Entertainment, which then offered him the starring role in My Samurai (1992). His most recent production is the newly released feature film Assassin's Code (Screen Media/Universal Pictures 2011).- IMDb Mini Biography By: trygve@trygve.com
- Before entering the entertainment field, Julian Lee worked in management at Pan American Taekwondo Society where he served as an executive member of the organizing committee for the 14th U.S. National Taekwondo Championships - the 1988 Seoul Olympic Tryouts. Subsequently he was appointed by the United States Taekwondo Union - Group A Member of the United States Olympic Committee as the Director of U.S. National Taekwondo (Olympic) Team for the 9th World Taekwondo Championships at Chamsil Olympic Stadium in Seoul, with the IOC president's Cup to be presented in celebration of the 1st Anniversary of the Seoul Olympiad. Of the 72 countries competing at the 9th World Championships, the U.S. team, led by Lee Won, placed 2nd overall. He also served as special assistant to vice president of International Olympic Committee for IOC 95th session.- IMDb Mini Biography By: TriFold Pictures
- Styles don't make the man, man makes the style.
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