Taekwondo originated in which country?

Taekwondo originated in the Korean peninsula, evolved from Taekwondo and Hualang Road in the Three Kingdoms period in South Korea, and is a popular martial art in South Korea.

Before 1955, there was no word Taekwondo in Korea, and Korean martial arts were mainly karate, Tang Shoudao and a few folk Taekwondo heels. During the Japanese occupation, a large number of young Korean students went to Japan to study and received systematic karate training in Songtao Pavilion. After returning home, they began to set up Taoist halls to teach students. After Japan's defeat, South Korea gained national independence, and a large number of karate gymnasiums and tangshoudao gymnasiums sprang up like mushrooms after rain. Early Korean karate communicators combined traditional martial arts taekwondo with karate, which was called Tang Shoudao. And the first batch of Korean Taoist temples appeared, which was the later Jiudaoguan.

The word "Taekwondo" was named by South Korean General Cui Hongxi in 1955. When General Cui Hongxi was studying in Japan in his early years, he studied karate at Songtao Hall in Japan and integrated it with traditional Korean martial arts such as kicking and fighting into Taekwondo. In a word, modern Taekwondo is one of the martial arts sports that originated in South Korea, which combines the skills of contemporary East Asian martial arts.

Taekwondo is a Korean martial art developed from East Asian culture, based on the martial spirit of "starting with ceremony and ending with ceremony". Its footwork accounts for 70%. 25 sets of taekwondo routines; In addition, there are weapons, capture, lock and fall, self-defense and anti-disassembly, and so on 10.

Taekwondo is a demonstration project of 1988 Olympic Games. The first test match was 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games; By the year 2000, the Sydney Olympic Games will become an official event.

The World Taekwondo Organization is mainly divided into two systems, namely the International Taekwondo Federation (ITF) and the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF). WTF system was adopted in the Olympic Games.