SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The Taekwondo Promotion Foundation plans to invite some 200 foreign military cadets and officers to Taekwondowon in Muju, North Jeolla Province as part of its friendship and cultural exchange program. Some 90 foreign officers and military personnel from 28 states currently studying at the Korea Defense Language Institute will [...]
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Taekwondo, a Korean martial art, has been adopted as a part of the regular curriculum at public elementary schools in Honduras, diplomats said. A ceremony was held at an elementary school in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, on Tuesday to celebrate the launch of the first regular taekwondo [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An international online taekwondo championship will be launched this year, enabling people around the world to participate in it and make exchanges each other, the event’s organizer said Monday. “We’ve decided to open the World Online Taekwondo Championships for the first time in the world this year,” Seo Hyun-seok, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Even the intense heat could not stop trainees who flew in from around the world from participating in the 2018 World Youth Taekwondo Camp being held in South Korea since July 27. A total of 130 participants from 14 countries including Germany, Belgium, Singapore, China, India, and Hong Kong [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea announced Friday it will seek to professionalize its traditional martial art of taekwondo and make it more accessible to a wider population. The sports ministry, in conjunction with four taekwondo organizations (World Taekwondo, Korea Taekwondo Association, Kukkiwon and Taekwondo Promotion Foundation), announced strategies and policy goals to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey has revealed non-Korean nationals who learn taekwondo are more likely to hold a favorable view of Korea than before. Findings from the new survey conducted by World Taekwondo Peace Corps with a sample of 1,750 current trainees say that 11.7 percent more respondents said they like [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Foreigners have become fonder of South Korea after learning the Korean martial art taekwondo, a local poll showed Tuesday. According to the survey by the World Taekwondo Peace Corps Foundation, 11.7 percent of 1,750 foreign nationals learning the sport said their positive feelings toward South Korea have increased. The [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea said Friday that more than 70 countries and regions have applied to attend the North Korea-led International Taekwondo Federation’s (ITF) championships to be held in Pyongyang later this month. Preparations for the championships slated for Sept. 15-21 are in the final stage, according to the Korean Central [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — At Roars of “fantastico” and “olé” rang through the halls of the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires after a performance of tango that was unlike anything the locals had seen before. To honor the 50th anniversary of the Korean martial art taekwondo reaching Argentina’s shores, the performance, titled “Fever [...]
INCHEON, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach on Thursday expressed his support for a South Korean proposal for a unified Korean delegation to next year’s Winter Olympics here, saying the idea is “in the spirit of the Olympism.” Bach arrived in South Korea to attend Friday’s closing ceremony of [...]