Scott Shaw has been a mainstay of martial art media for well over two decades. He is one of the world's most prolific proponents of the Korean martial arts who has written several hundred articles and a number of books on the subject published by the most esteemed publishers in the industry. Scott Shaw was the first non-Korean ever to be awarded the advanced rank of 7th Degree Black Belt by the prestigious Korea Hapkido Federation and he currently holds 8th Degree Black Belts in both Hapkido and Taekwondo.