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International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) is an international taekwondo organization founded on March 22, 1966, by Choi Hong Hi (Korean: 최홍희) in Seoul, South Korea. [1] The ITF was founded to promote and encourage the growth of the Korean martial art of taekwon-do .
The GTF and all three ITFs practice Choi's ITF-style Taekwondo. In ITF-style Taekwondo, the word used for "forms" is tul; the specific set of tul used by the ITF is called Chang Hon. Choi defined 24 Chang Hon tul. The names and symbolism of the Chang Hon tul refer to elements of Korean history, culture and religious philosophy. The GTF-variant ...
Choi, together with other Korean martial arts instructors, was a major contributor to the global expansion of taekwondo. [18] ITF taekwondo organizations credit Choi with starting the spread of taekwondo internationally by stationing Korean taekwondo instructors around the world, [19] and have consistently claimed that ITF-style taekwondo is ...
1982 Quietly resigned from the ITF and all Tae Kwon do duties, due to opposition to General Choi’s controversial political statements made in North Korea 1991 Promoted to 9th Dan Black Belt 2015 JC KIM`S two sons Rich Kim and Edward Kim are following in his footsteps, are currently and have been for over 30 years, teaching Tae Kwon-Do in ...
[1] [2] [3] He was one of the twelve original masters of taekwondo of the Korea Taekwon-Do Association. [4] [5] Following a career in the South Korean military, Park emigrated to Canada in 1970. He was a key leader in the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) under Choi Hong-hi, but founded the Global Taekwon-Do Federation in 1990 after ...
[4] [5] Prior to forming his own Taekwondo organization he was a Vice Secretary of his father's ITF organization. [ 6 ] Choi Jung-hwa still works extensively promoting Taekwon-Do around the world and is accredited with introducing and developing Taekwon-Do in many Eastern European countries such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Romania ...
Flagpoles and flags of the World Taekwondo and of the Korean Taekwondo Association at the Kukkiwon in Seoul, South Korea. World Taekwondo (WT; formerly the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) until June 2017) is an international federation governing the sport of Taekwondo and is a member of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF).
Those listed below are grouped by system: Kukkiwon (widely known as the World Taekwondo Headquarters), International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), and other systems (which includes some persons receiving ranks from taekwondo organizations that predate the other two systems, e.g., the original Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA)) and United ...