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World Martial Arts Union: same ways has an advantage. It is a much smaller

http://womau.org community, but it is a very warm one. Foreigners
come here and eagerly encouraged to try Korean
Chung-Ju World Martial Arts Festival: culture, food, arts, etc. while showing what they
http://www.martialarts.or.kr/index_ can do. It really is a win-win situation.”
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Cindy Estella Sarmiento – Fitness Model, Partic-
Note: ipant in the Cultural Partnership Initiative – Bo-
Grandmaster Park No-Won – Founder of Teuk gotá, Colombia

Gong Moo Sool
“This is my first time for the festival. Actually
“This is my fourth time at the festival. Now this this year was my first year in Korea. It has been
year my team is running a Teuk Gong Moo Sool fantastic! It is a great opportunity to meet more
Experience Booth. I’m very happy with the in- athletes and discover arts I never knew exist.
terested generated by Koreans and foreigners With the openness of the event I have been able
alike. to experience so much, helping me grow as a
martial artist.”
For Koreans this has become a world festival with
people from all corners of the globe. Ever since By: Master Guy Edward Larke
the 1988 Olympics Korea has been one of the Pictures By: Yonghee Woo
countries of interest for such events. Chung-Ju in

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