The federation was founded in 1966 by South Korean general Choi Hong-Hi, who later defected to the North. But it is not recognised by the International Olympic Committee, which instead chose its ...

North Korean soldiers perform martial arts in a show of military power during tactical drill demonstrations of different arms ...

Hong Kong senior producer Raf Wober mentioned the North Korean taekwondo team may be headed to an international competition in Kazakhstan. The question was: How would it get there given the travel ...

World Taekwondo (WT) and the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) will jointly organize taekwondo demonstration performances three times in April in the Olympic capital of Lausanne ...

North Korea was one of the first countries to shut ... a foreign language school and a taekwondo academy. But Pyongyang, the capital, remains closed to all but Russian tourists.

Kukkiwon Master Lim Yeon-cheol, Taekwondo Ambassador from the Government of Korea, Promotes Taekwondo at the Korean Cultural Center in Brazil. Taekwondo is a traditional martial art from South Korea ...