Category: International Martial Arts

New Kukkiwon President Grandmaster Dong Sup Lee

Kukkiwon New President – Grand master Dong Sup Lee For the first time, a 9-dan grand master was elected to the president.

This video made by Vienna Austria ITF Head quarters – Taekwondo History of Grandmaster Woojin Jung

This video made by Vienna Austria ITF Head quarters – Taekwondo History of Grandmaster Woojin Jung. GM Teaching 60 years (Hwan-Gup)환갑 1960 – 2020. Still 4 times a week teaching and enjoy. I’m not WTF/ITF I’m pioneer. I’m not South Korea/North Korea I’m Korean. 나는 남한도 북한도아닌 한국사람 이며.ITF도 WTF도아닌 태권도 개척자임니다.

World Taekwondo President meets winners of Korean Children’s Taekwondo Quiz Contest

SEOUL, Korea (May 8, 2020) – World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue today met with the winners of a nationwide Korean Children’s Taekwondo Quiz Contest, which included a promising taekwondo practitioner. The meeting took place at the World Taekwondo office. Da Eun Choi came first in the quiz and has been training in taekwondo since she was…

World champion Liliana, 11, Raises Money for NHS by Doing Four Miles of Taekwondo Kicks

An 11-year-old girl in Grimsby, England is raising money for the NHS by doing taekwondo kicks across the length of her garden for ten days. Liliana Herbert was originally inspired by Captain Tom Moore as he walked around his garden to raise almost £30 million for the NHS. Wanting to do her part, Liliana, also…

100,000 Masks Will Go To IOC

The president of the World Taekwondo Federation proposed on Wednesday to transfer 100,000 disposable surgical masks to the International Olympic committee (IOC). The masks were originally donated to the World Taekwondo Federation by Wuxi Sports Bureau and Jiangsu Wuxi Economic Development Zone, according to Chungwon Choue, federation president. In recent weeks, the epicenter of the COVID-19…

WT Announces Changes to Events Calendar

The IOC, IPC, the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and the Government of Japan announced on 30 March that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will take place on 23 July – 8 August 2021 and the Paralympic Games will follow on 24 August – 5 September 2021. As a result of the…

Caroline Maher; From Egyptian Taekwondo Champ to a Member of Parliament

Caroline Maher, 34 and based in Cairo, is a former professional taekwondo artist and current member of the Egyptian Parliament. She is a member of the 2015 class of the U.S. Department of State and espnW’s Global Sports Mentoring Program (GSMP). Over the course of my amateur and professional taekwondo career, I earned more than…

Taekwondo Events on Kish Island Canceled Over Coronavirus Concerns

Iranian Taekwondo Federation announced that three international events that were due to be held on Kish Island in April has been canceled due to concerns over the new coronavirus outbreak. The decision has been made upon the request of the Asian Taekwondo Union to protect the health of athletes and participants, said the federation on…

WT and World Baseball Softball Confederation sign MOU

World Taekwondo (WT), the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) and the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote humanitarian, social inclusion, peace and development-supporting activities. The signing ceremony took place at the World Taekwondo Office and was hosted by WT President and THF Chairman, Chungwon Choue, who was joined…

Another High Profile Athletic Defection From Iran

What started as a trickle one year ago is turning into a serious issue for the Iran’s sports and its hopes for the next Olympic games. Several internationally competitive athletes have defected since last September and will play for other countries, including Canada, Germany and even Mongolia. None of these defections shocked Iranians as much…