SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Young trainees to become Catholic priests are taking taekwondo lessons at the Vatican. Saint Pius X Institute, located inside the Vatican City, signed a contract with the Italian Taekwondo Federation (FITA) to teach taekwondo to students aiming for priesthood. The lessons began last October. It is the first time [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The Taekwondo Promotion Foundation is hosting a K-Stay Korean cultural experience program for foreign residents in the country through an online platform until December. K-Stay was first launched last year as a three-day program consisting of five taekwondo and Korean calligraphy classes at the Taekwondowon Center in Muju County, [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – In Thailand, the land of Muay Thai, a taekwondo competition – the Royal Princess Cup – was held successfully. The Thailand Taekwondo Masters’ Association held the “International Taekwondo Competition, the Royal Princess Cup” at the Thammasat University gymnasium in Bangkok on May 11 in cooperation with the Korean Community [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — King Philippe of Belgium, who is on a state visit to South Korea, visited the World Taekwondo Headquarters, also known as Kukkiwon, on Wednesday. King Philippe, along with Belgian government officials, watched a taekwondo performance. After that, the king changed into a taekwondo uniform and smashed a pine board [...]
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 [...]