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 ...

JINCHEON -- Korea aims to win nine gold medals in taekwondo at this year's Asian Games, hoping it can reaffirm its reputation as the birthplace of the martial art. Korea will send 18 taekwondo ...

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 ...

PYEONGCHANG -- The two Koreas showcased a joint taekwondo performance here Friday ahead of the opening ceremony for the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. The taekwondo demonstration teams, from the ...

AMMAN — Taekwondo, the traditional Korean martial art, has grown into one of the world’s most widely practiced sports, combining physical skill, mental discipline, and strong moral values. Among its ...

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 ...

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 (AP) — Panipak Wongpattanakit retired on a perfect note as she became the first Thai athlete in any sport to become a two-time Olympic champion on Wednesday. Wongpattanakit defended her Tokyo ...

From the outside, it doesn't look like there's room for a martial arts studio. But beyond the entrance to Sunshine Taekwondo Academy, a couple dozen children in spotless white uniforms stretch, ...

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 ...

Gwangju University, an 'Education Internationalization Competency Certified University,' is gaining attention for successfully hosting a large-scale Taekwondo tournament in Jiangxi Province, China, ...