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Taekwondo is now one of the national sports of Korea and is included in all school grades and as a requisite for military training. It has become so much a sport in Korea that the WTF now comes under the control of the Korean Athletics Association and not the martial arts body, the ki-do-hae.

In 2004, after years of corruption in the WTF, President Kim resigned, so the WTF elected Chungwon Choue as president.

Since the formation of the WTF as a rival to the ITF, Taekwondo has not been a unified sport. Since the WTF headquarters is located in Korea, Korea has given its support the development of WTF Taekwondo. In the 1980's struggle to determine who would govern Olympic Taekwondo, the WTF won. 

Taekwondo has evolved into two basic types, one is the traditional martial art promoted by the ITF, and the other is a progressive martial sport promoted by the WTF with Olympic competition as its primary goal. When Jigaro Kano took aspects of Jujitsu and created a safer sport form of the martial art, he used the name "Judo" to describe his new sport. However, Taekwondo has not adopted any name changes to differentiate between its two types; however, the sport type prefers to use the single word Taekwondo, while the traditional art type prefers to use the separate words Tae-Kwon-Do.

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