SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea aims to join forces with North Korea to seek UNESCO recognition for the traditional martial art of taekwondo as a shared intangible cultural heritage, officials said Monday. The Cultural Heritage Committee, an advisory body to the Korea Heritage Service (KHS), has selected taekwondo as the next candidate [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Choue Chung-won, the incumbent leader of World Taekwondo (WT), will run unopposed in his bid for his seventh and final term at the helm of the sport’s global governing body. Seoul-based WT announced Friday that Choue, 77, will be the sole candidate standing in its presidential election scheduled to [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) –North Korea has unilaterally applied to list taekwondo, a traditional Korean martial art, as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), the UNESCO website showed Friday. The North submitted an application to the UNESCO headquarters in March to include taekwondo on the ICH list, according to the UNESCO website. UNESCO’s Intergovernmental [...]
PARIS, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — On the third day of the taekwondo competition at the Paris Olympics on Friday, Seo Geon-woo will become the first South Korean to compete in the men’s -80-kilogram event. He will try to blaze the trail and win the country’s first medal in that weight division. Seo, world No. [...]
PARIS, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Unlike many other athletes, Park Tae-joon, freshly crowned an Olympic taekwondo champion in Paris on Wednesday, doesn’t have pre-match rituals or superstitions. The 20-year-old instead likes to give himself a positive pep talk. Messages such as “I can do this,” “I will get it done,” or “This is going [...]
PARIS, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s quest for multiple medals in taekwondo, its national martial art, will begin Wednesday in the men’s lightest weight class, -58 kilograms. Park Tae-joon will be in action at Grand Palais in Paris. The 20-year-old defeated the 2021 Olympic bronze medalist Jang Jun in the national team trials [...]
PARIS, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean taekwondo practitioner Lee Da-bin has won everything that an athlete in her martial art can win, except for one thing: an Olympic gold medal. With a world championship, an Asian championship, two Asian Games gold medals and nearly a handful of Grand Prix titles, Lee is one [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean taekwondo team departed for Paris for the Olympics on Thursday, driven to bring home a gold medal three years after the country was shut out in its national martial art. South Korea will send four athletes to the taekwondo competition, which begins Aug. 7 at Grand [...]
CHUNCHEON, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A demonstration performance by the World Taekwondo (WT) team, a Seoul-based global taekwondo federation, occurred on Monday at the special stage near Uiam Lake in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, as a part of the World Taekwondo Culture Festival. The gala show celebrated the city’s selection as the new home of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul’s Gangnam District announced that it has installed sculptures along Teheran-ro, close to the World Taekwondo Headquarters, also known as Kukkiwon. These sculptures are inspired by “poomsae,” which represents a set of patterns from Korean martial arts. The decision to place these sculptures came after the district recognized that [...]