The umbrella term traditional Taekwondo typically refers to the martial arts practiced by the kwans during the 1940s and 1950s, though in reality the term "Taekwondo" had not yet been coined at that time, and indeed each kwan was practicing their own unique style of martial art. These schools were established by Korean martial artists who had studied primarily in Japan during the Japanese rule. The body known for Taekwondo in the Olympics is World Taekwondo.īeginning in 1947, shortly after the end of the occupation of Korea by Imperial Japan, new martial arts schools called kwans were opened in Seoul. Gyeorugi (), a type of full-contact sparring, has been an Olympic event since 1992. The main international organizational bodies for Taekwondo today are the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), founded by General Choi Hong Hi in 1966, and the World Taekwondo (WT - formerly the World Taekwondo Federation WTF), founded in 1973 by the KTA.
The oldest governing body for Taekwondo is the Korea Taekwondo Association(KTA), formed in 1959 by a collaborative effort by representatives from the nine original kwans, or martial arts schools, in Korea. Taekwondo was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by various Korean martial artists combining and incorporating the elements of Karate and Chinese Martial Arts along with the indigenous Korean martial arts traditions of Taekkyeon, Subak, and Gwonbeop.
Taekwondo (/ˈtɛˈkwɒnˈdoʊ/) is a Korean martial art.
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