PARIS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - South Korea's Park Tae-Joon won the Olympic gold medal in the men's taekwondo flyweight division on Wednesday, beating Azerbaijan's Gashim Magomedov who withdrew from the ...

PARIS, Aug 11 (Reuters) - (This Aug. 11 story has been corrected to fix the spelling of Kim Yu-jin in paragraph 2) South Korea reclaimed their prominent position in taekwondo at the Paris Games, where ...

PYEONGCHANG -- The two Koreas showcased a joint taekwondo performance here Friday ahead of the opening ceremony for the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. The taekwondo demonstration teams, from the ...

CAMP CASEY, South Korea – A U.S. Army sergeant won the Gold Medal during an international Taekwondo competition in South Korea. Sgt. Robert J. Errington from the 59th Chemical, Biological, ...

The Korean traditional martial art of taekwondo has adopted a series of new rules for next month's Rio de Janeiro Olympics designed to bring more transparency and excitement to the event. The ...

A local physical education teacher returned from the birthplace of taekwondo with gold around his neck. Bret Mischlich, a P.E. teacher at Palmer Lake Elementary School since 2004 who established an ...

PARIS (AP) — Panipak Wongpattanakit retired on a perfect note as she became the first Thai athlete in any sport to become a two-time Olympic champion on Wednesday. Wongpattanakit defended her Tokyo ...

BEIJING (AP) — North Korea appears to have cracked open its borders in the first significant way since they were shut at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, with the impoverished nation ...

Taekwondo became an official Olympic sport in 2000 and has become a truly global sport practiced by nearly 80 million people across the world, about 400 of which are Ugandan. Taekwondo, a traditional ...