Dear TKD family,

To all of you around the world! As we prepare to celebrate the 10th World
Taekwondo
Festival commencing July 1st 2008, we would like to show our sincere gratitude
for your
continued support for our festival over the last 10 years.

Together with your help we have made this festival the most successful and
prestigious
among so many Taekwondo events in the world today. What makes our festival
different is
that most who participate want to take part again and again, strengthening the
value
behind our belief that 'We are one through Taekwondo', regardless of
nationality,
language, culture or creed. We believe this value to be so important in the
global
education of the modern youth.

It is at this time of year, both in and out of Korea, that we come together. We
greet, we
compete, we talk, we shout, we hug and we cry, like old friends, like one
family. We follow
just one rule and we speak the same language, TAEKWONDO.

With the retirement of the well-respected president of the WTF, Mr. Un Yong Kim,
and the
passing of the equally respected founder of the ITF, General Choi Hong Hi, it
would seem
that now is an appropriate time to forge new friendships and show that
Taekwondo is one
sport. Although both disciplines have developed different styles, the original
root is the
same. There would seem no better time for the 60 million WTF and 40 million ITF
members to open their hearts and start communicating with each other.

It is with great honor and pride that we can be part of bringing members of
these two
esteemed federations to the same table for the first time in history. We hope
that it will be
remembered as a time of bonding in the world of Taekwondo. This effort on the
part of
the Organizing Committee and Chung Cheong University is self-rewarding in the
knowledge that we try something new as the front runners of the true Taekwondo
philosophy, a continuing feature of this unique festival. We hope this will
benefit
everyone, especially future generations.

It is for the above reasons that we invite ITF members to the 10th World
Taekwondo
Festival & Korea Classic Open 2008; to create a new era of Taekwondo that
belongs to the
world. WTF and ITF members all over the world!

With true Taekwondo spirit, let's unify our family to 100 million members and
stabilize our
unsettled
world.

Dr. Oscar Oh, Chairman
Organizing Committee of the World Taekwondo Festival


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