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🥋 UNITED KINGDOM TAEKWON-DO ASSOCIATION 🥋
National Seminar & Black Belt Grading

📍 Elgin, Scotland
📅 20th – 22nd March 2026

Join us for one of the most important events in the UKTA calendar – a weekend of high-level training, technical development, and Black Belt grading with practitioners from across the UK.

🔴 Open to all Red Belts and Black Belts
👉 Please check with your instructor before applying

📝 How to register:
Book onto the “National Seminar and Grading March 2026” event via https://ukta.com/events/

⭐ Special milestone:
22nd March 2026 marks 60 years of the International Taekwon-Do Federation – making this a truly historic occasion for our art.

Train. Grade. Celebrate Taekwon-Do.
Don’t miss it.

Check out the 2026 medals 🤩Who wants one?🙋🏻‍♂️

Register below ⬇️

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The 9th November 2025 marks the 107th anniversary of the birth of our Founder General Choi Hong Hi. On this special day we celebrate the life of our Taekwon-Do Father who has united so many people around the world with his wonderful gift of Taekwon-do.

Happy Dan-Gun day!! Today 3rd October is Foundation Day for Koreans. Read about the legend below.

Pattern meaning - Dan-Gun
Dan-Gun is named after the Holy Dan-Gun, the legendary founder of Korea in the year 2333 B.C.

The second Taekwon-Do pattern Dan-Gun continues the Korean creation mythology begun with the creation of the world in Chon-Ji », with the founding of the first kingdom of Korea.

Legend of Dan-Gun
Dan-Gun’s (also Dangun Wanggeom ») ancestry legend begins with his grandfather Hwanin » (환인) the “Lord of Heaven”. Hwanin had a son, Hwanung », who yearned to live on the earth among the valleys and the mountains. Hwanin permitted Hwanung and 3,000 followers to descend onto Baekdu Mountain » (referred to in Juche » and Chon-Ji »), which is where Hwanung founded Sinsi » (신시; “City of God”).

A tiger and a bear prayed to Hwanung that they may become human. Upon hearing their prayers, Hwanung gave them 20 cloves of garlic and a bundle of mugwort, ordering them to eat only this sacred food and remain out of the sunlight for a set number of days (different versions use either 100, 40 or 21 days, in Taekwon-Do we use the 21 days). The tiger could not complete the task and gave up and left the cave after about 20 days. However, the bear remained and after 21 days (or 3 weeks) and was transformed into a woman.

The bear-woman (Ungnyeo ») was grateful and made offerings to Hwanung. However, she lacked a husband, and soon became sad and prayed beneath a “Sindansu »” (“Divine Betula »”) tree to be blessed with a child. Hwanung, moved by her prayers, took her for his wife and soon she gave birth to a son, who was named Dan-Gun Wanggeom, the legendary founder of Gojoseon » (the first kingdom of Korea, in present-day Liaoning, Manchuria, and the Korean Peninsula) also known as the human form of Hwanung.

Lake Chon-Ji » on Baekdu Mountain » is the first residency of Dan-Gun before he established his capital at Asadal » (now Pyongyang) in 2333B.C.

https://youtu.be/PqUVn22CC4U?si=NT2lLNbzmnNVmbch

Classic start.m4v Video segments from the 1988 UKTA demonstration team featuring key members of the team: Paul Cutler, John Williamson, Gary Miller and Tim Helstrip

⏳ Just 3 Days Left to Enter! ⏳
The countdown is on – entries for the Welsh Open Taekwon-Do Championships 2025 close at midnight on Tuesday 23rd September.

If you haven’t registered yet, now’s the time! 👊
Join competitors from across the UK for a fantastic day of Taekwon-Do action on Sunday 28th September at the House of Sports, Cardiff.

👉 Secure your place today: www.tkdcompetitions.co.uk

Don’t leave it too late!

The final UK Taekwon-Do Association National Seminar & Black Belt Grading of 2025 will be hosted by Mr Darren Johns VI Dan in Cardiff from 12th–14th September.

📍 Venue:
USW FITZONE, University of South Wales
Treforest, Pontypridd

🥋 Open to all 2nd Kups and above
✅ 2nd Kups will have the opportunity to grade on the Saturday
✅ Pre-grading available for those preparing for the March 2026 National Grading

ℹ️ Info pack available here:
👉 https://ukta.com/national-seminar-and-black-belt-grading-sept-2025/

Don’t miss this key event in the UKTA calendar!

Today, June 15, we remember General Choi Hong-Hi, the founder of Taekwon-Do, on the 23rd anniversary of his passing.
His legacy lives on through the millions of practitioners around the world who continue to uphold the art and philosophy he created.