SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – This year’s taekwondo world championships to be held in South Korea will be the largest in the competition’s history, organizers said Wednesday. The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) said 917 athletes from 183 nations have signed up for the June 24-30 WTF World Taekwondo Championships in Muju, some 240 kilometers south of Seoul. Both the numbers of participating nations and athletes are [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States Taekwondo Education Foundation (USTEF) plans to hold its 9th annual New York Times Square Taekwondo Festival on June 23, bringing together about 5,000 participants, including American students learning the Korean martial art, organizers said Saturday. The festival, which was begun in 2008 to promote taekwondo among [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The World Taekwondo Federation, led by South Korea, has extended an invitation to its North Korean counterpart, the International Taekwondo Federation, for the upcoming WTF World Taekwondo Championships expected to be held from June 24 to 30 in Muju, South Jeolla Province. According to an official from the WTF, [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Taekwondo athletes will be wearing a different set of uniforms at this year’s summer Olympics, as their trousers will encompass designs or colors representing their home country. “Among the 63 countries participating in taekwondo matches at Rio 2016, 20 submitted their own uniform trouser designs with national colors and [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – A North Korean martial arts manual dating back to the 18th century has been listed as a UNESCO heritage, the country’s state media said Thursday. The U.N. organization listed the manual called “Mu Ye Do Bo Tong Ji” on its World Regional Register for Asia-Pacific at a meeting of [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. state of Maryland declared April 5 as “Taekwondo Day” in an effort to promote the Korean martial art, the latest in a series of events underlining the affection Gov. Larry Hogan and his Korean-American wife have for Korea. Hogan, who calls himself a “hanguk sawi,” which means a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The 2015 Miss World Brazil has been named the goodwill ambassador of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), the body governing the traditional Korean martial art said Wednesday. Catharina Choi Nunes, who is half Korean, was appointed to the post at a ceremony attended by WTF President Choue Chung-won at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The World Taekwondo Foundation (WTF) is offering help to solve the refugee situation in Europe, which is rapidly becoming an international issue. Cho Jeong-won, head of the WTF, announced plans for the creation of the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation to help children in refugee camps all over the world, at a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Burnaby, a suburb of Vancouver, Canada, has decided to celebrate August 8 every year as ‘Taekwondo Kukkiwon Day’. Derek Corrigan, the mayor of Burnaby, visited Kukkiwon in Seoul, and delivered news of the estasblishment of ‘Taekwondo Kukkiwon Day’ to Jung Man-sun, the head of Kukkiwon. Burnaby decided [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean foods like tteokbokki (stir-fried rice cakes) and bulgogi (sliced and seasoned barbecued beef) have set off for China to start a new Korean wave. The ‘Korean Food Fair 2015: Tsingtao, China’ that opened on August 29 has been packed with Chinese people. Long lines were formed in front of [...]