Why do they love Taekwondo?  7/7/09 in Kiteboarding   |  
thesweet18   |   respect  Taekwondo (Korean
pronunciation: [tʰɛkwʌndo]) is a Korean martial art and the
national sport of South Korea. It is the world's most popular
martial art in terms of the number of practitioners. Gyeorugi
(pronounced [ɡjʌɾuɡi]), a type of sparring, has been an Olympic
event since 2000.  In Korean, tae (Hangul: 태, hanja: 跆) means
"to strike or break with foot"; kwon (Hangul: 권, hanja: 拳) means
"to strike or break with fist"; and do (Hangul: 도, hanja: 道)
means "way" or "method"; so "taekwondo" is loosely translated as
"the way of the foot and fist" or "the way of kicking and
punching".   Formally, there are two main styles of taekwondo.
One comes from the Kukkiwon, the source of the sparring system
sihap gyeorugi which is now an event at the summer Olympic Games
and which is governed by the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF).
The other comes from the International Taekwondo Federation
(ITF). There is also a more recent form called So