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 [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean taekwondo grandmaster on Monday has set a new Guinness World Record for the highest jumping roundhouse kick. Nam Seung-hyeon, head of the demonstration team at the World Taekwondo Headquarters, also known as Kukkiwon, achieved the feat on his 60th birthday by hitting a target apple placed [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Thousands of taekwondo apprentices succeeded in a group demonstration in central Seoul, setting a new Guinness World Record. Some 12,533 participants flocked to Gwanghwamun Square in central Seoul on Saturday, wearing their taekwondo uniforms, to hold a group demonstration of the “Taeguk 1-jang” technique. A total of 12,263 of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Nicaragua has introduced taekwondo as one of the regular courses offered at some of the public schools in the country. The South Korean embassy in Nicaragua reported that the Nicaraguan Ministry of Education incorporated the South Korean martial art part of the regular curriculum at two public schools in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Taekwondo, a Korean martial art, was performed during the halftime show of a National Football League (NFL) game in Washington, D.C. A group of taekwondo teams from Tongmyong University, Angel Peace Art Group, and the U.S. martial arts academy MBA staged a joint performance during the halftime show of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The World Taekwondo Headquarters, also known as Kukkiwon, is introducing a special uniform to be used in the 9th dan award ceremony. The new uniform will be used for the first time at the second 9th dan award ceremony to be held this year at the Kukkiwon Main Stadium [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the Afghan evacuees who were airlifted to South Korea in August, teenage girls will learn taekwondo. Together with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation started teaching the Korean traditional martial art to children and teenagers under 18 years of age among the Afghan [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Cultural Center in Osaka, Japan announced that it has opened up a website with online taekwondo courses for Japanese viewers. The website offers 33 taekwondo courses taught by a Korean instructor with Japanese subtitles. The website was created exclusively to prevent the inconvenience of searching through video [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Taekwondo is gaining the attention in Italy after the country won its first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics in the martial arts discipline. The Italian daily Corriere della Sera released a two-page article in its Monday edition that said ‘Martial Art Born in Korea Mesmerizes Children.’ The newspaper [...]