Sep. 15, 2007
TaeKwonDo Times will host the USA Goodwill Tour 2007 of the North Korean National TeaKwonDo Demonstration Team. The 2007 Goodwill Tour will take place in five cites including Los Angeles (CA), San Francisco (CA), Cedar Rapids (IA), Louisville (KY), and Atlanta (GA). About twenty North Korean team members will visit the USA for this event. The team will arrive at Los Angeles International Airport on October 4th, 2007 and leave on October 17th, 2007. During their two-week stay in the US, they will perform TaeKwonDo demonstrations and experience American culture.
The demonstration in each city will include a South Korean traditional group dance, the North Korean players’ TaeKwonDo demonstration, and a USA TaeKwonDo players’ demonstration. For details specific to each site's performance, please contact the location coordinator.
The chair of the event, TaeKwonDo Times Publisher Woo Jin Jung, said, "We, TaeKwonDo Times, are pleased to announce the USA Goodwill Tour 2007 of the North Korean TaeKwonDo Demonstration Team. This tour is for peace and friendship between the USA and North Korea. We are very excited to sponsor this event. Lots of martial artists across the nation, as well as TaeKwonDo Times, are working very hard to make this event successful. Although TaeKwonDo Times will host the tour with the help of American martial artists, this event is not only for martial art people, but for all Korean Americans. TaeKwonDo Dojangs, martial art people, Korean churches, Korean communities - all of them are getting involved. We hope even more Korean Americans will get involved and come to support and enjoy the demonstration. We are just working hard to prepare for their arrival."
TaeKwonDo Times is a 27 year-old worldwide martial arts magazine. Its publisher, Woo Jin Jung, has tried to form good relations with North Korea through TaeKwonDo before. Previously, he has visited North Korea with US martial artists to attend a TaeKwonDo festival and coordinate a meeting of the president of the World Taekwondo Federation (S. Korea) and the president of the International Taekwon-Do Federation (N. Korea).
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Brian Heckart
Publicity & Marketing
E-mail: brian@taekwondotimes.com
Phone: 1-319-396-1980
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