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Short History of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Including Educational Activities Short history of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) including educational activities Russel Ahn Physical Education Department University of California, Berkeley, USA - May 25-27,, 1973: First WTF World Taekwondo Championships were held in Seoul, Korea. - May 28, 1973: WTF was founded - May 15-18, 1974: International Referee Seminar was first held in Seoul, Korea - Oct. 8, 1975: Affiliated with the GAISF (later renamed as SportAccord) - Dec. 5-7, 1982: International Referee Refresher Course was first held in Singapore. - May 8-10, 1986: FISU adopted taekwondo as an event for World University Championships - Sept. 17-20, 1988: Taekwondo was staged as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games - Sept. 4, 1994: IOC adopted taekwondo as an official sport of 2000 Sydney Olympic Games - Feb. 15, 1995: WTF was affiliated with the ASOIF - July 14, 2000: FISU adopted taekwondo as an optional sport for the 22nd Daegu Summer Universiade. - March-June 2005: Inaugural WTF-Kyunghee University Partnership Taekwondo Training Program for athletes and coaches as training program for taekwondo hopefuls took place. - July 25, 2006: WTF decided to designate September 4 as `Taekwondo Day’ in commemoration of IOC decision on inclusion of taekwondo as an official sport of 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. - Sept. 4-6, 2006: Inaugural WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships took place in Seoul, Korea. - June 10, 2009: First WTF World Para-Taekwondo Championships were held in Baku, Azerbaijan. - June 2009: Protector & Scoring System (PSS=Electronic Body Protector), Instant Video Replay (IVR) system and WTF World Ranking System were first introduced. - July 1-6, 2009: Taekwondo Poomsae was first added to Kyorugi in taekwondo competition of the 2009 Belgrade Summer Universiade. - Aug. 6-9, 2009: The 1st World Youth Taekwondo Camp was held in Muju and Seoul, Korea in joint organization of the WTF and the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation as an annual event. - Nov. 13-14, 2009: FISU Executive Committee held in Erzurum, Turkey decided to include taekwondo in the official program of the 2017 Taipei Summer Universiade. - Sept. 1-2, 2010: Taekwondo participated at the 1st SportAccord (World) Combat Games in Beijing - Nov. 22, 2012: WTF decided to inaugurate WTF World Cadet Taekwondo Championships from 2014. - Dec. 6-9, 2012: Free-style Poomsae competition was first included in the WTF World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Santa Cruz, Aruba. - July 26-Aug. 10, 2013: WTF-OCA Asian Youth Taekwondo Camp was held in Bangkok. - Sept. 1, 2013: Taekwondo was first included in the UNOSDP Youth Leadership Program at the Youth Leadership Camp held in Gwangju, Korea organized by 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee. - Oct. 16, 2013: WTF became International Paralympic Committee (IPC)-recognized IF. - Dec. 13-15, 2013: WTF inaugurated World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Manchester, UK. Educational Activities of the World Taekwondo Federation Since its foundation on May 28, 1973, the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has been vigorously conducting various educational programs and activities. International Referee Seminars and Refresher Courses & International Coach Training Courses Since 1974, the WTF has conducted International Referee seminars to foster International Referees for kyorugi (sparring) and poomsae (martial art forms) to officiate at WTF-promoted international taekwondo championships, such as World Taekwondo Championships, World Junior Taekwondo Championships, World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships, World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships, World Para-Taekwondo Championships and World Taekwondo Grand Prix, as well as International Referee Refresher Course. WTF-Kyunghee University Partnership Taekwondo Training Program The WTF launched a partnership taekwondo training program for athletes and coaches with Kyung Hee University in 2005. Under this program, athletes and coaches from underdeveloped countries train taekwondo kyorugi and poomsae and are educated on the other related subjects on taekwondo and taekwondo competition at the International Taekwondo Academy of the Kyung Hee University in Korea. In 2013, a para-taekwondo athlete from Ukraine participated in the program, which made the program open to taekwondo athletes with disabilities. World Youth Taekwondo Camp Besides these seminars and courses in relation to taekwondo competitions, the WTF has been conducting the World Youth Taekwondo Camp jointly with the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation (TPF) in Korea. The World Youth Taekwondo Camp was inaugurated in 2009 and has been held annually with the participation of taekwondo athletes aged 14 to 20 around the world. At this Camp, participants practice kyorugi and poomsae under instruction of world and Olympic champions and are also educated the importance of playing true as an athlete, friendship and leadership as well as on good tenets of taekwondo and Olympic values. Result of the World Youth Taekwondo Camp has been always sent to the IOC. Asian Youth Taekwondo Camp in Joint Organization with the OCA The WTF also jointly organized the Asian Youth Taekwondo Camp with the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) in cooperation with the National Olympic Committee of Thailand and the Thailand Taekwondo Association in 2013 with the participation of athletes of 15-17 years old and accompanying coaches from Asian NOCs. The WTF dispatched instructors and Olympic medalists as champion ambassadors as role models for participants. The OCA has conducted this Camp jointly with International Sports Federations every year. WTF Taekwondo Demonstration Team The WTF Taekwondo Demonstration Team has made performances in many cities around the world as well as on the occasions of various international taekwondo competitions, including WTF-promoted championships and multi-sport games. Since its creation in 2008, the demonstration team has not only showed various components of taekwondo to the spectators of the international events and the tour cities, but also made presentations to specific target groups such as children at those events as part of cultural and educational programs. Participation in UNOSDP Youth Leadership Camp A taekwondo session was first included in the Youth Leadership Camp promoted by the UN Office on Sport for Development and Peace held in Gwangju, Korea in cooperation with the 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade Organizing Committee in the summer of 2013. The purpose of the Camp is to bring youth who have the potential to be community leaders in the field of sport for development. The camp is both theoretical and practical in nature and provides participants with a toolkit on how sport can be best used to improve the social conditions in the participants’ home communities. The UNOSDP selects about 30 participants aged between 18 and 25, with a 50% female participation. In 2013, the UNOSDP and the WTF signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation on the Youth Leadership Camps held under UNOSDP Youth Leadership Program. The camps, which will be held in Germany, the United States and Korea in 2014, will also include taekwondo sessions. The WTF cooperates with the UNOSDP in the aspects of dispatching instructors and the program of taekwondo sessions. Taekwondo Peace Corps The WTF Taekwondo Peace Corps (TPC) was created in 2008 and has dispatched Taekwondo Peace Corps members to less-developed countries to help people in those countries develop and serve for their community through sports. Since its inauguration, the TPC has sent out its members to many countries twice a year, for a period of about one to two months per country per dispatch. WTF President Chungwon Choue proposed the creation of the so-called "Sport Peace Corps" together with the United Nations, the International Olympic Committee and the International Sports Federations at the U.N.-IOC Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland on May 22, 2010. "The Sport Peace Corps entails provisions of comprehensive sport-related assistance to not only underdeveloped countries, but any U.N.-assigned areas," WTF President Choue said in his presentation at the forum at the Olympic Museum of the IOC Headquarters. The forum participants adopted 10 resolutions, in which they especially commended the "achievements of the WTF in its successful outreach to young people and its aims of building a better and more peaceful world; and to advocate the consideration of its global expansion, in close cooperation with key stakeholders, including the IOC, the UN, national and international sports federations and NOCs, firmly believing that together, we have the ability to promote global peace and harmony through sport." Under the topic "Sports Diplomacy: The WTF Experience," WTF President Choue told the forum participants "the assistance includes providing equipment, and skills and training for local athletes and coaches for any Olympic sport in countries in need. This gives hopes and dreams to the young people who are deprived of the opportunity to learn while promoting friendship, peace and understanding through sport and interpersonal interactions." The WTF has continuously expanded its mission from promotion of taekwondo to contribution to world peace and development through taekwondo. Though not the educational activity, it is to note that inauguration of the World Para-Taekwondo Championships in 2009 and the WTF’s effort to expand taekwondo competitions also for people with disabilities of different kinds in cooperation with international sports organizations for the disabled can also serve for the cause of world peace
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