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| 9th Degree Black Belt Founder and President Global Taekwon-do Federation |
"An important day in the history of Taekwon-do was June 14th 1990 - the day that GrandMaster Park Jung Tae founded the Global Taekwon-do Federation (GTF). This non-political organization is growing rapidly and already had seventy-eight countries working together under the GTF banner and the reknown leadership of the GrandMaster. Today, after fifty years of training, GrandMaster Park Jung Tae still travels around the world conducting seminars, demonstrations and training the Instructors."
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1990-1999 |
President of the Global Taekwon-do Federation |
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1989 |
Secretary-General ITF and Instruction Committee Chairman |
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1988 March |
Formed the USSR Taekwon-do Association |
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1988 Aug-Dec |
Pioneer of Taekwon-do in China |
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1986-1987 |
Conducted Seminars and Demonstrations throughout the World |
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1986 |
Pioneer of Taekwon-do in Russia & Czechoslovakia |
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1985 |
Part of ITF Goodwill Demonstration Team to the Soviet Union |
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1984 Oct |
Elected Secretary-General and Instruction Committee Chairman at the General Congress meeting in Vienna, Austria |
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1982-1984 |
Pioneer of Taekwon-do in Japan |
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1981 |
Pioneer of Taekwon-do in North Korea |
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1980 Sept |
As Technical Committee Chairman of ITF went to North Korea and the Soviet Union to demonstrate and promote Taekwon-do |
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1979 |
Demonstrated and promoted Taekwon-do in the South American Countries |
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1978 |
First time ever Korean Instructors promoted and demonstrated Taekwon-do in Eastern Europe and the Socialist Countries. Pioneer of Taekwon-do in Poland & Hungary |
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1974-1978 |
Travelled to Europe, Asia, North, Central and South America demonstrating and promoting Taekwon-do |
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1971-1973 |
Demonstrated and promoted Taekwon-do in North America and South America |
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1970 |
Formed the Manitoba Taekwon-do Associatio. Demonstrated and promoted Taekwon-do throughout Asia. Invited to Canada to demonstrate at the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. Opened a Taekwon-do School in Winnipeg, Manitoba |
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1968-1969 |
Selected to train Instructors by the ITF Headquarters in Korea |
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1968 |
Graduated three months intensive special international nstructors Training Course |
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1967 |
Returned to Korea from Vietnam |
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1965-1967 |
Vietnam Army Instructor, training Korean, Vietnamese & American soldiers in unarmed combat |
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1964 |
Joined Korean army and became the Leading Instructor |
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1961-1963 |
Chief Instructor of Kwang Ju City, South Korea. Promoted and demonstrated around the country. Taught the police force and the army. |
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1958-1960 |
Taekwon-do Instructor in Kwang Ju City |
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1948 |
Began training in the Martial Arts (the name taekwon-do did not exist at this time) |
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