Editing Taekwondo (section)

=== Development of multiple styles ===
In 1959, the Korea Tang Soo Do Association (later [[Korea Taekwondo Association]] or KTA) was established to facilitate the unification of Korean martial arts. Choi wanted all the other member ''kwans'' of the KTA to adopt his own Chan Hon-style of taekwondo, as a unified style. This was, however, met with resistance as the other ''kwans'' instead wanted a unified style to be created based on inputs from all the ''kwans'', to serve as a way to bring on the heritage and characteristics of all of the styles, not just the style of a single ''kwan''.<ref name="KANG" />{{Page needed|date=August 2023}} As a response to this, along with political disagreements about teaching taekwondo in North Korea and unifying the whole Korean Peninsula, Choi broke with the (South Korea) KTA in 1966, in order to establish the [[International Taekwon-Do Federation]] (ITF)— a separate governing body devoted to institutionalizing his Chan Hon-style of taekwondo in Canada.<ref name="KANG" />{{Page needed|date=August 2023}}<ref name="Gillis" />

Initially, the South Korean president gave Choi's ITF limited support, due to their personal relationship.<ref name="KANG" />{{Page needed|date=August 2023}} However, Choi and the government later split on the issue of whether to accept North Korean influence on the martial art. In 1972, South Korea withdrew its support for the ITF. The ITF continued to function as an independent federation, then headquartered in [[Toronto]], Canada. Choi continued to develop the ITF-style, notably with the 1983 publication of his ''Encyclopedia of Taekwon-Do''. After his retirement, the ITF split in 2001 and then again in 2002 to create three separate ITF federations, each of which continues to operate today under the same name.<ref name="KANG" />{{Page needed|date=August 2023}}

In 1972, the KTA and the South Korean government's [[Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (South Korea)|Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism]] established the [[Kukkiwon]] as the new national academy for taekwondo. Kukkiwon now serves many of the functions previously served by the KTA, in terms of defining a government-sponsored unified style of taekwondo. In 1973 the KTA and Kukkiwon supported the establishment of the [[World Taekwondo|World Taekwondo Federation]] (WTF), which later changed its name to "World Taekwondo" (WT) in 2017 due to the previous initialism overlapping with [[WTF (Internet slang)|an internet slang term]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/taekwondo/40391326|title=World Taekwondo Federation changes name over 'negative connotations'|date=2017-06-24|work=BBC Sport|access-date=2017-10-02|language=en-GB|archive-date=2019-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191002155357/https://www.bbc.com/sport/taekwondo/40391326|url-status=live}}</ref> While the Kukkiwon focus on the martial art and self-defence aspects of Kukki-Taekwondo, the WT promoted the sportive side, and its competitions employ a subset of the techniques present in the Kukkiwon-style taekwondo.<ref name="KANG" />{{Page needed|date=August 2023}}<ref name="Kukkiwon">{{cite web|url = http://kukkiwon.or.kr/front/pageView.action?cmd=%2Feng%2Fintroduce%2Fhistory|title = Kukkiwon History|access-date = September 7, 2014|website = Kukkiwon.or.kr|archive-date = September 3, 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140903191215/http://www.kukkiwon.or.kr/front/pageView.action?cmd=%2Feng%2Fintroduce%2Fhistory|url-status = live}}</ref> For this reason, Kukkiwon-style Taekwondo is often referred to as WT-style Taekwondo, sport-style Taekwondo, or Olympic-style Taekwondo, though in reality the style is defined by the Kukkiwon, not the WT.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}

Since 2000, taekwondo has been one of three Asian martial arts (the others being [[judo]] and [[karate]]), and one of six total (the others being the previously mentioned, Greco-Roman wrestling, freestyle wrestling, and boxing) included in the [[Olympic Games]]. It started as a demonstration event at the 1988 games in Seoul, a year after becoming a medal event at the [[Taekwondo at the Pan American Games|Pan Am Games]], and became an official medal event at the [[2000 Summer Olympics]]. In 2010, taekwondo was accepted as a [[Commonwealth Games]] sport.<ref>{{cite news
| title = Taekwondo set to join 2018 Commonwealth Games after 'category two' classification
| first = Bob
| last = Williams
| url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/taekwondo/7849693/Taekwondo-set-to-join-2018-Commonwealth-Games-after-category-two-classification.html
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101016025701/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/taekwondo/7849693/Taekwondo-set-to-join-2018-Commonwealth-Games-after-category-two-classification.html
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 16 October 2010
| newspaper = The Telegraph
| date = 23 June 2010
| access-date = 21 November 2010
}}</ref>