The World Taekwondo Pace Corps (TPC) was created by the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF)President, Dr. Chungwon Choue, in 2008 to help enhance world peace and harmony, a deeperunderstanding of different cultures, and friendship around the world through taekwondo volunteerservice (Cutler, 2012). He put a forth challenge to Taekwondo experts, many of whom were collegeand university students, to move away from their personal comfort zone, and to sacrifice for andshare their talents for others in international community. In the same year, Dr. Choue’s vision forthe development of TPC was transformed into reality as the initial fifty‐nine Korean Peace Corpsvolunteers were selected in both summer and winter sessions and dispatched in thirteen hostcountries. One year later, the World Taekwondo Peace Corps Foundation was established toincrease funding to facilitate the development and expansion of the program. By the end of the2014, there were fifteen hundred volunteers who had served the Taekwondo Peace Corps in manyhost countries (World Taekwondo Peace Corps Foundation, 2014).
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