(ATR) South Korean sports leader Park Yong Sung will head the International Judo Federation for a third term, winning re-election at the IJF Congress in Cairo. The vote assures South Korea of at ...

It became a permanent fixture on the Olympic program starting in 1972. Women's judo was later added as a medal event in 1992. The men's 81kg division featured a rematch of the 2008 final when South ...

Choo Sung-hoon recalled the time he experienced his father's passing. He explained, "I received a call suddenly while I was ...

Especially the judokas performed better than expected," he said. In judo, Korea collected 8 gold, surpassing its initial target of five. Though Korea collected many medals in its traditionally ...

It takes the individual sport of Judo, and brings 6 players together, 3 male and 3 female, to form one united team. In the first Bronze medal contest, The Republic of Korea faced Team Mongolia.

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Of over 200 countries that participated in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, only one refused to compete because of the COVID-19 pandemic: North Korea. The East Asian country has won 57 medals in the ...

Unlike karate and judo, taekwondo wasn’t created in Japan. It's actually from Korea, where it was created during the 1940s and ’50s. That means it’s by far the newest martial art on this list!