T. K. Tae Kwon Do Academy
In T.K. TaeKwonDo, Grandmaster TaeKwon Park, who has 35 years of teaching experience, will help you establish Self-Confidence, Discipline, Physical fortitude, Self-Control. These characteristics are the real focus during training in the authentic martial arts tradition.
While these qualities are easy to talk about; to instill them in today's youth and our life styles is not an easy task. With so much discussion about getting fit, the core purpose of real martial arts practice has been lost in many studios, but that's not the case with T.K. Tae Kwon Do. At T.K. TaeKwonDo, we take pride in setting our educational and motivational focus on the aforementioned qualities.
Grandmaster Park provides more to his students than a place to work out after school. It is our hope that you will allow us to take you on this journey to stronger self- confidence and accomplishment through our program.
GrandMaster Park and his dedicated instructors will put in their best efforts to make you the best you can be. You will always have strong support at T.K. TaeKwonDo.
Practice hard and you will soon accomplish far more than you thought you could do at TK TaeKwonDo with Grandmaster Park.
Kukkiwon - World Tae Kwon Do Federation Headquarters
Kukkiwon as the World Taekwondo Headquarters has vitalized Taekwondo in the form of the leading martial art by globalizing it since its foundation in 1972.
It laid the groundwork for Taekwondo's globalization by holding the 1st World Taekwondo Championships and establishing the World Taekwondo Federation(WTF) in 1973. In 1978, Kukkiwon finally succeeded to unify Taekwondo by integrating 10 separate Taekwondo Kwans; Chung Do Kwan, Moo Duk Kwan, Jido Kwan, Song Moo Kwan, Chang Moo Kwan, Kang Duk Won, Jung Do Kwan, Oh Do Kwan, Han Moo Kwan and Kwan li Kwan.
Kukkiwon continued to cultivate the Taewondo spirit and skills after establishing WTF and the 1st World Taekwondo Championships, It organized Kukkiwon Taekwondo Demonstration Team in 1974 to travel worldwide introducing and spreading the Taekwondo spirit and skills. Kukkiwon continued to promote the martial art Taekwondo actively by conducting overseas tours for Poomsae training, international seminars and academic interchanges like the World Taekwondo Leaders Forum. It has dispatched 12 Taekwondo instructors to 12 underdeveloped countries in an effort to enhance the growing Taekwondo value. And Kukkiwon facilitates and diversifies its plans to further expand and globalize Taekwondo on the Taekwondo Friendship Training Program. Such efforts are useful to register Taewondo as an official sport in the Olympics and maintaining its status as a true Olympic sport by increasing the number of Taekwondo practitioners.
Kukkiwon set up procedures of Dan/Poom Promotion Test which measures a trainee's commitment in his or her own personal growth in Taekwondo. Through this test, Kukkion further won its excellent reputation as the home of Taekwondo and has produced about 8 million poom/dan holders up to now.
Kukkiwon are holding the World Taekwondo Hanmadang every year. It has created a venue for Taekwondo players to unify them all in further developing the art through the event. The essentials of Taewondo are demonstrated through breaking, self defense and Poomsae.