ITF 태권도 형성과 발달에 관한 연구

Abstract

Lately Taekwondo, the one of best korean cultural asset and product, has been on the edge of progressing or degrading, facing various limitations. Even though WTF Taekwondo has been successful as a competitive sport, it now has been struggling with two significant problems, firstly, devising a variety of programs for adults and establishing its identity. In order to come up with solutions to get over these limitations, the formation of ITF Taekwondo, which has the same root as WFT but has its own way of development, has been looked into. ITF Taekwondo is a martial art that was developed by Choi Hong-Hee who himself conducted a good R&D after he had learned Karate while he had been in Japan to study. But, later on, he included 24 different Korean historical training system such as Chunji, Dangun, and Dosan to establish Sine-Wave theory which can be applied to every technique and create his own unique martial art system, getting out of the system of Karate. In conclusion, it can be said that at the moment South Korean martial art WTF Taekwondo and ITF Taekwondo should try to look for more various training systems by interchanging each other in order to develop a new Taekwondo with proactive attitude in regard to accepting changes in the martial art world and, in terms of historical Taekwondo identity, an active attitude which takes facts into positive consideration should be oriented so as to settle down the disordered identity issue at the moment.