Korea Taekwondo Association

Korea Taekwondo Association (Korean: 대한 태권도 협회; Hanja: 大韓 跆拳道 協會; KTA), originally the Korea Tang Soo Do Association (1961), is the first taekwondo organisation. It was founded in 1959,^[a] although official South Korean sources give 1961 as its year of establishment.^[b] In 1966, some members of the KTA, led by H. H. Choi, broke off from the KTA and formed the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF). The Kukkiwon and the then-World Taekwondo Federation (WTF, now known as World Taekwondo [WT]) were created by the KTA in the early 1970s. The KTA sits under the Korea Sports Council, is aligned with Kukkiwon, and is a Member National Association (MNA) of the WT. Its goal is to promote the martial art taekwondo as a national sport within South Korea.