The Lebanese Carine Lahoud is a WTF Council Member and Vice-President of the Asian Taekwondo Union; very kindly she agreed to talk exclusively with masTaekwondo.com about the upcoming elections in the WTF.
The 2013 WTF World Cup Taekwondo Team Championships, which originally was going to take place in the city of Dakar, Senegal, then changed to Gabon, now it has been left without a venue and the WTF is looking for someone to organize it.
The WTF announced through a statement from Jean-Marie Ayer, WTF Secretary General, about the new Development Program to channel resources in high potential areas
WTF President Choue received a certificate appointing him as an honorary consul of Honduras in Seoul from Jae-hyun Bae, deputy minister and chief of protocol of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on behalf of Foreign Affairs Minister Byung-se Yun, in a ceremony at the ministry on April 4, 2013.
With nine years as head of the WTF, Chungwon Choue has managed to change the face and popularize the sport as never done before. The confirmation of taekwondo as core sport for the 2020 Olympics was finishing touch.
After hearing rumors about the possible candidacy of Mr. Kamaladdin Heydarov for president of the World Taekwondo Federation, masTaekwondo.com consulted sources in Azerbaijan and they categorically denied it.
The World Taekwondo Federation has arranged a new grading for events that will award points for the WTF World Ranking. Previously the maximum was G 10, now will double to G20.
The WTF official competition called the "Grand Prix" which has been hugely discussed lately, will have a format that will bring together only the top athletes in the Ranking.
As the WTF election registrations are coming to its closing; there is much speculation about this issue. MasTaekwondo.com talked with President of the Pan-American Taekwondo Union, Mr. Ji Ho Choi.
After the article published based on a communication we had with WTF President, we decided to make a more extensive and deep interview. This time Dr. Choue talks about the great progress taekwondo has had in the recent years.