Choue launches Taekwondo Peace Corps

(BEIJING, July 9) -- "Though sports, we can bring peace", Chungwon Choue, President of the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF), recently told the IOC President Jacques Rogge and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The WTF launched the Taekwondo Peace Corps in Suwon, the Republic of Korea on July 5. Choue hopes that if successful, the Taekwondo Peace Corps will be expanded into the "Sports Peace Corps", with the purpose of improving sports in developing countries.

"If the Taekwondo Peace Corps project is carried out successfully, then we will expand the program to involve all Olympic sports into a 'Sport Peace Corps' program, in cooperation with the United Nations and the IOC," said Choue.

Seven Taekwondo Peace Corps teams will be sent to five countries by the WTF this summer. The destinations are Russia, Paraguay, India, Pakistan and China. Two teams will go to India and China.