Taekwondo was created amid the 1950s by different military specialists by consolidating components of karate and Chinese combative technique with indigenous Korean hand to hand fighting customs, for example, Taekkyeon, Subak, and Gwonbeop.[4] The most established overseeing body for taekwondo is the Korea Taekwondo Association (KTA), framed in 1959 through a community exertion by agents from the nine unique kwans, or hand to hand fighting schools, in Korea. The principle global hierarchical bodies for taekwondo today are the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF), established by Choi Hong Hi in 1966, and the organization of the Kukkiwon and World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), established in 1972 and 1973 separately by the Korea Taekwondo Association. Gyeorugi ([kjʌɾuɡi]), a sort of full-contact competing, has been an Olympic occasion since 2000. The body known for taekwondo in the Olympics is the World Taekwondo Federation.
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