TAE KWON DO is a Korean martial art, which developed independently in Korea and in recent years has become the most respected national sport of Korea, and now has global family of 50 million people all over the world throughout over 160 countries. In the year 2000 it was accepted as an official Olympic sports and today it is the universal art of self-defense and modern world sport. The main goal of Tae Kwon Do is to achieve total mind and body control.
The most important fact about Taekwondo as a martial art sport is that it is not only a superior art of self-defense, but it adds remarkable mental discipline and self-confidence, since a taekwondo practitioner is able to attack and beat an aggressor with hands, fists, elbows, knees, feet or any part of his body.