[By NBC-1TV Nathan YI]Asian Taekwondo Union General Assembly was held in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, in the afternoon of April 10th.NBC-1TV did an in-depth reporting about the general meeting which total 19 member nations including Lee Kyu Seok, the president of ATU, attended.If you click the screen at the bottom, you can watch the video about NBC-1TV 's reporting
[By NBC-1TV Nathan Yi ]The spot volunteers who are university students in The 8th Asian Junior Taekondo Championships which will be held in Taiwan from April 10th are talking each other about this championshios in the bus.
[By NBC-1TV Nathan Yi]In the morning of November 26, there was the 31th memorial ceremony of the 5th President of Korea, Park Chung-hee. Two thousand mourners packed in his tomb in the Seoul National Cemetery. NBC-1TV featured the story.The following video replay of 20086114
Korea won the right to host the 20th WTF World Taekwondo Championships in 2011 in the ancient city of Gyeongju at the WTF Council meeting in Cairo, Egypt on Nov. 29, 2009.A four-member Korean delegation, headed by Mr. Jin Bang Yang, secretary general of the Korean Taekwondo Association, made a presentation for the Council members. Korea hosted the latest biennial World Taekwondo Championships in 2001 on Jeju Island.Russia also earned the right to host the 2nd WTF World Para-Taekwondo Championships in St. Petersburg in May 2010. At the WTF Council meeting, which took place at the Conference Hal
Presidents and secretary generals of 5 continental unions from Europe, Pan-America, Oceania, Asia and Africa participated in the explanation meeting of the project 'The Taekwondo Park' supported by Korean Government.The Taekwondo Park would be a unique community for the Taekwondo practitioners all over the world. There are planning to build the World Taekwondo Academy that offer education, training and research on the Taekwondo. most participants of this meeting are expecting the creation of the World Taekwondo Academy in The Taekwodno ParkTaekwondo Promotion Foundation is planning to have Wor
The World Taekwondo Federation has announced a list of key officials of the WTF Technical, Games, Referee and Education committees.Mr. Dai Won Moon of Mexico was appointed as chairperson of the WTF Technical Committee, replacing Mr. Eui Min Ko of Germany.France’s Philippe Bouedo was named as chairperson of the WTF Games Committee, while Mr. Herbert Perez of the United States became new chairperson of the WTF Education Committee.The new chairpersons of the Games and Education Committees were also appointed as ex officio vice chairpersons of the WTF Technical Committee. The soon-to-be-appointed
In the morning of November 26, there was the 29th memorial ceremony of the 5th President of Korea, Park Chung-hee. Two thousand mourners packed in his tomb in the Seoul National Cemetery. NBC-1TV featured the story.6114
Taekwondo is an effective educational tool for young people around the world and now is the time for taekwondo to serve the world, says president of the world’s taekwondo governing body.As part of efforts to promote global peace, the president says that he hopes the WTF-initiated Taekwondo Peace Corps program to be expanded into a new entity of the so-called Sport Peace Corps, in cooperation with the United Nations and the International Olympic Committee.“As proven by numerous studies, taekwondo training has significant educational effects on children in the stage of personality forming and em
The World Taekwondo Federation held a ceremony to disband the 2008 Summer Taekwondo Peace Corps at the headquarters of the GCS International in Seoul, Korea, on Sept. 6, 2008.The disbanding ceremony drew 27 members of the 2008 Summer Taekwondo Peace Corps, who were dispatched to seven regions in five countries for about one month during the past summer season.Also present at the event were WTF President Chungwon Choue; Mr. Dai-soon Lee, a vice president of the WTF and chairman of the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation; and Paraguayan Amb. to Korea Ceferino Adrina Valdez Peralta.The Taekwondo Peace
[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]The 2008 Taekwondo Day was observed in a ceremony at the Olympic Park in Seoul, Korea on Sept. 4, 2008, drawing about 7,000 people from at home and abroad.Under the theme “One World Through Taekwondo,” the 2008 Taekwondo Day, the third of its kind, was jointly organized by the World Taekwondo Federation, the Kukkiwon, the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation and the Korean Taekwondo Association, along with the Korean Government.To mark the day when the IOC voted to include taekwondo in the official program of the Olympic Games, the WTF designated Sept. 4 as Taekwondo Day at its