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World Taekwondo Federation President calls for IOC and UN to introduce Sport Peace Corps
World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) President Chungwon Choue is increasing pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and United Nations to introduce a Sport Peace Corps to centralize the distribution of funding around the world.
Choue, the South Korean who has led the WTF since 2004, has long pushed for such a body, having delivered five major speeches on it over recent years, in Leuven, Monaco, Busan, Lausanne and St Petersburg.
He will give another at next month's Turkmenistan International Sports Media Forum in Ashgabat.
Later in April, the official is due to meet both IOC President Thomas Bach and UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon in New York City, and he believes this could be the year when the project truly gets off the ground.
Choue revealed how he has already had "positive talks" with the South Korean Government about having the Sport Peace Corps' headquarters here, although he also said it would not necessarily have to be based in South Korea.
This would be his contribution to peace through sport, a concept prioritized as part of the IOC's Agenda 2020 reform process, claimed Choue, who was born in North Korea before his family relocated south of the border shortly before the Korean War.
In working with the UN, Choue would be following a path set by his father Young Seek Chou, a co-founder of the International Association of University Presidents who played a key role in the introduction of the UN's first International Day of Peace in 1981.
Source: WTF
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