The United States Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan Federation is an IRS approved 501(c)(4) nonprofit martial arts membership organization with its National Member Headquarters located in Springfield, New Jersey. The purposes of this Federation shall include but are not limited to: To undertake any and all legal activities which will directly or indirectly further and encourage the study, the practice, and the growth of public recognition of the Korean martial art known as Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan, formerly known as Tang Soo Do Moo Duk Kwan. To undertake charitable activities, both through group and individual action, consistent with the practice of the art and in the interest of humanitarian principles: to facilitate participation in, and study of, Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan for the socially, economically, or physically disadvantaged. To promote International understanding, of and through, the martial art known as Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan. To control and regulate the grading and promotion of its individual members and to professionalize, through education and certification, its individual Instructors and their studios. To publish and disseminate periodicals, books, and other printed matter; as well as to produce film, audio-visuals, and other multi-media communication furthering the purposes of the Federation and the art of Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan. To control, protect, and regulate the use of its name, symbols, and trademarked and copyrighted technical, educational and promotional materials, and to endorse such activities, businesses, enterprises, products and other undertakings appropriate to the furthering of Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan. To obtain legitimate Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan rank and instructor certifications from the Korean Soo Bahk Do Association, Moo Duk Kwan for Federation members who have fulfilled the requirements necessary to be certified.