Over 100 South Korean Taekwondo Players To Travel Worldwide To Promote Sport
More than 100 Korean Taekwondo will be deployed to 30 countries where they will promote South Korea's traditional martial art and participate in exhibitions.
According to The Korean Times, the World Taekwondo Peace Corps held a ceremony on Wednesday to introduced the 16th group of Taekwondo Peace Corps. During the ceremony, Booyoung Group Chairman Lee Joong Keun was also sworn in as the foundation's third president.
Established in 2008, the Taekwondo Peace Corps promoted peace, mutual understanding, friendship and other virtues. The initiative was spearheaded by Choue Chung Won, World Taekwondo Federation's first president.
So far, the program has sent 1,579 volunteers to all parts of the world, according to The Indian Subcontinent. Members of the peace corp have visited 153 countrie where they imparted the virtues of the combat sport, which has achieved an estimated 40 million practitioners worldwide.
The 113 members of the 16th Taekwon Peace Corps will
This being the sixteenth group to dispatch, the 113 volunteers will travel to 11 countries in Asia, five in Africa, four in Oceania and four in North and South America.
"As the president of the foundation, I am deeply honored to be allowed to spread Korea's traditional martial art, taekwondo," said incumbent President Lee Joong Keun.
"I want all of you to be responsible and consider yourselves as civil ambassadors," Lee told the volunteers.
Reports say that under Lee's leadership, construction firm Booyoung Group will work hand in hand with the World Taekwondo Peace Corps to promote the sport and its virtues as part of the company's corporate social responsibility campaign.
The company reportedly made generous donations to support Taekwondo in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It has also granted a total of $1 million to aid Taekwondo training centers in Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar.
Additionally, Booyoung Group signed a six-year, $10 million partnership with the World Taekwondo Federation in April.
