His home is in a four-story apartment building with a big wrestling billboard mounted on it. His gymnasium is on the fourth floor, and about twenty pupils dressed in white uniforms come there every night to learn various wrestling skills from him.
直到有一次張永哲來到台北，見到了黃根屘，看到他魁梧的體格，瞭解他一心向學的誠意，就改變初衷，願意收他為徒，黃根屘於是隨師赴韓學習。黃根屘說，韓國摔角運動興起比日本早，日本現在許多有名的摔角選手，像馬場、豬木等，都是韓國老師的再傳弟子。