The Overseas Koreans Agency said Thursday that late taekwondo master Rhee Jhoon-goo has been named overseas Korean of the ...

South Korea aims to join forces with North Korea to seek UNESCO recognition for the traditional martial art of taekwondo as a ...

CAMP CASEY, South Korea – A U.S. Army sergeant won the Gold Medal during an international Taekwondo competition in South Korea. Sgt. Robert J. Errington from the 59th Chemical, Biological, ...

PARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 11 story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Kim Yu-jin in paragraph 2) South Korea reclaimed their prominent position in taekwondo at the Paris Games, where ...

North Korea appears to have cracked open its borders in the first significant way since they were shut at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, with the impoverished nation sending a large ...

South Korea's unification ministry said Monday it approved a request for a visit to the country by the North's taekwondo demonstration team, who will be participating at a world taekwondo championship ...

PARIS, Aug 8 (Reuters) - South Korea's Kim Yu-jin won the Olympic gold medal in the women's taekwondo featherweight (under 57kg) division, swiftly beating Iran's Nahid Kiyanichandeh in a show of ...

The retention of taekwondo as an Olympic sport may have been driven by its global governing body’s efforts to reform and spread the Korean marital art, officials said. At the executive board meeting ...

An elite delegation of practitioners from the West Asian country has concluded a high-performance seminar at the heart of the ...

Taekwondo became an official Olympic sport in 2000 and has become a truly global sport practiced by nearly 80 million people across the world, about 400 of which are Ugandan. Taekwondo, a traditional ...

CAMP CASEY, South Korea – A U.S. Army sergeant won the Gold Medal during an international taekwondo competition in South Korea. Sgt. Robert J. Errington from the 59th Chemical, Biological, ...