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Assocation : International Taekwon-Do Federation

International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) is a Taekwondo organization founded on March 22, 1966, by General Choi Hong Hi (최홍희) in Seoul, South Korea.

The ITF exists to promote and encourage the growth of the Korean martial art of Taekwondo. Since South Korean Government abandoned ITF, it established World Taekwondo Federation to continue the mission of Taekwondo's globalization.

Once General Choi Hong Hi (최홍희) was exiled out of South Korea, he returned to North Korea and introduced the organization which settled there. In 2001, the ITF Congress voted for General Choi Hong Hi as President for four years of the six-year term, then for his son (Choi Jung Hwa) to serve as President for the remaining two years.

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