The U.S. Taekwondo Center was founded by Grand Master Myong Sok Namkung Mayes in 1987 in Spring Lake, North Carolina.
There are little over twenty U.S. Taekwondo Center schools in the United States. Each school is managed and owned individually. The schools Grand Masters are famous, admired, and respected throughout the world of Taekwondo. In the past, other qualified masters and grandmasters have requested the use of the name, U.S. Taekwondo Center, for their school.