World Hanmi TKD Academy is Taekwondo Martial Arts School 

Taekwondo (/ˈtɛˈkwɒnˈdoʊ/; Hangul: 태권도) is a Korean martial art.

 

Taekwondo was developed during the 1940s and 1950s by various martial artists, combining elements of Karate and  Chinese martial arts with elements of indigenous Korean martial arts traditions such as Hopkido and Tang Soo Do, along with concepts from boxing and wrestling.

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The oldest governing body for taekwondo is the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA), formed in 1959 through a collaborative effort by representatives from the nine original kwans, or martial arts schools, in Korea.

 

The main international organizational bodies for taekwondo today are the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), founded by General Choi Hong Hi in 1966, and the partnership of the Kukkiwon and World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), founded in 1972 and 1973 respectively by the Korea Taekwondo Association. Gyeorugi ([kjʌɾuɡi]), a type of full-contact sparring, has been an Olympic event since 1992. The body known for taekwondo in the Olympics is the World Taekwondo Federation.