Donald Trump, a man who thinks exercise will kill you, has received an honorary ninth-degree black belt in Taekwondo. Issued by Kukkiwon president Lee Dong-sup, Trump received the honorary belt at his ...

Donald Trump is now a taekwondo black belt holder despite never having actually practiced taekwondo. Martial artist: Kukkiwon, a taekwondo governing body based in South Korea, presented the former ...

SANTA CRUZ — After Soonho Song”s mother and grandmother encouraged him to learn self-defense when he was a child living in Korea, Song took their advice and ran with it. By age 11, he”d earned his ...

We stood at attention and bowed facing each other as commanded. I looked at my opponents, two men with red belts (one level below black). We were in full sparring gear: hogus (chest protectors), ...

At first, it was the cool-looking baggy white pants that got the attention of Tara Lozano, 55, and her mother, Linda Cytryn, 79, as they contemplated taking a kick boxing class at Park Tae Kwon Do USA ...

J.R. Miller Martial Arts owner Jill Miller, who owns and operates the school with her husband, Alan, said testing a family for different ranks of black belt on the same day doesn’t happen every day.

Simon An, a 20-year-old college student, was mindlessly scrolling social media inside his family’s Texas taekwondo school on Tuesday afternoon when he heard an unsettling scream. His father, Han An — ...

Vladimir Putin may want to invest in a pair of suspenders because he’s losing his belts. World Taekwondo announced Monday that it was rescinding an honorary ninth-degree black belt it bestowed upon ...