WT President Cho Jung-won, 6th and last successful consecutive terms, serves the last four years
Oct 23, 2025
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On the 23rd, WT held a general meeting at the World Hotel Grand Juna in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China. As a result of the executive election, President Cho decided to take the helm of the federation for four more years. President Cho, who expressed his intention to seek his last second term at the WT General Assembly held in Chuncheon last year, ran alone and received 143 votes out of a total of 149 votes as a result of secret electronic voting by the WT Executive Committee and the Association of Member States conducted in a way that combines field and online. Cho was listed as the only Korean among the heads of the International Federation of Summer Olympic Games.
Cho, who led the WT in 2004 in the remaining term on behalf of the late former president Kim Un-yong, won consecutive terms in 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 elections from 2005. During his tenure, President Cho solidified Taekwondo's status as an official Olympic sport through structural reforms such as game rules and scoring methods. Cho will continue his last and seventh term as the head of the world's taekwondo for four years from the 31st, the day after the end of the 2025 Wuxi World Taekwondo Championship, to the 2029 World Taekwondo Championship. Governor Cho said, `I will do my best to serve in the last four years" expressed his feelings.
Meanwhile, Yang Jin-bang was elected vice president of the WT. He received 98 votes, the most among the six candidates in the eight-year revival of the vice-presidential election.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
