The fault is squarely on the S.Korean government and the S. Korean TKD federation. They wanted an Olympic sport so they destoryed the style to make it "fit" into a sport. It's a discrace of what they did. They basically sold their sole to the devil. Was TKD always this bad? No, the ITF has a decent style and so to something called "professional TKD". The sad thing is that those people who wanted to keep TKD into a MA rather than a sport is opressed by the S.korean TKD association. A shame. Good thing that MA who kept the MA of TKD is changing their names so they don't have to be hassled by the SKTKD federation. Who cares about a name? Besides the name is if anything a handicap.
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