[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SEOUL, Korea (November 22, 2021) - The World Taekwondo Peace Festival was held in Seoul, Korea on November 22, 2021 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Olympic Taekwondo and the 40th anniversary of the UN International Day of Peace. The event, which took place at the Seosomun Shrine History Museum, was jointly promoted by World Taekwondo (WT), GCS International and the U.N. Association of the Republic of Korea. The peace festival, which lasted about 2 hours, featured a 20-minute Taekwondo performance by the WT Demonstration Team, an opening ceremony, and a one-hour peace
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] (November 19, 2021) - The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Governing Board today announced that Para Taekwondo’s medal events will be increased to 10 and the athlete quota increased to 120 for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. The announcement came as the IPC Governing board approved the complete medal events programme and athlete quotas for Paris 2024 following consultation with the IOC and Paris 2024 Organising Committee. The change marks a significant increase for Para Taekwondo from Tokyo 2020 where the debut sport had six medal events and an athlete quota of 72
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] (November 19, 2021) - The first ever World Taekwondo Women’s Open Championships is set to get underway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on November 25, and will see some of the world’s best female athletes compete for the coveted inaugural title. The three-day G-4 event will be the first Taekwondo event hosted in Saudi Arabia and is expected to attract around 170 athletes from 36 NOCs and the refugee team. As many as 20 Olympians from Tokyo 2020 are due to compete in Riyadh including Olympic silver medallists Lauren Williams from Great Britain and Tatian Minina from the ROC, and br
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SEOUL, Korea (November 17, 2021) - The final preparations for the World Taekwondo Peace Festival are underway with the special event aiming to help raise public awareness of the importance of promoting world peace through social responsibility and the Olympic sport of Taekwondo. The World Taekwondo Peace Festival will take place on November 22 at the Seosomun Shrine History Museum in Seoul and is set to commemorate 20 years of Olympic taekwondo and the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the U.N. International Day of Peace. The International Day of Peace was proposed
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SEOUL, Korea (November 4, 2021) - World Taekwondo today hosted its first ever Orientation meeting for the recently elected World Taekwondo Council and appointed its remaining Council members and Vice Presidents. World Taekwondo President Chungwon Choue, as per the World Taekwondo Statutes, has the authority to appoint two vice presidents and six Council members. During the Orientation meeting, President Choue appointed IOC Member Ms. Aicha Garad Ali and the Republic of Korea’s former minister of culture, sport and tourism Mr. Yangwoo Park as Vice Presidents. For the Counci
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] LAUSANNE, Switzerland (October 30, 2021) - The Taekwondo HumanitarianFoundation (THF) Board met in Pully, Lausanne on 30 October to discuss a numberof key issues and appoint a new Board member. Angelo Cito, Chairman of the Fondazione Umanitaria Italiana di Taekwondoand President of FITA, was elected as a member of the THF Board for athree-year mandate during the meeting. THF Chairman Chungwon Choue said:“We are delighted to welcome Angelo to the THF Board. Angelo brings a lot ofexperience and expertise and will help us strengthen the support we provide torefugees around th
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] The Seoul International Aerospace & Defense Exhibition (SEOUL ADEX) will be held at Seoul Airport (Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do) for 5 days from Oct, 19(Tue) to Oct, 23(Sat). It started as the ‘Seoul Air Show’ in 1996 and has been integrated into the ground defense sector since 2009 and Seoul ADEX 2021 is Korea's largest trade show specializing in aerospace and defense. Seoul ADEX is held every odd-numbered year in October to expand export opportunities for domestic aerospace and defense products and to exchange technology with advanced overseas companies. This year, 440 comp
[By NBC-1TV K, Y Yi] SEOUL, Korea (October 11, 2021) - Chungwon Choue was today re-elected as World Taekwondo President for the term 2021 to 2025 by electronic vote during the virtual World Taekwondo General Assembly 2021. President Choue was the sole Presidential candidate and received 129 of the 131 votes. He has served as President since 2004 and has helped oversee a transformational period in the sport’s history with a focus on making Taekwondo fairer, more transparent and more inclusive. Speaking following his election, President Choue said:“It is a great honour to have been re-elected as