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Former Manipur Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party MLA, Yumnam Khemchand Singh, has go the archetypal Indian to person the 5th Dan achromatic loop successful the accepted taekwondo creation style.
He received the 5th Dan certificate from Mayong Suk, the vice president of the Global Traditional Taekwondo Federation (GTTF), astatine the organisation’s bureau successful Seoul connected Tuesday (December 30, 2025), much than a twelvemonth aft earning the grade aft a promotion test.
The certificate was issued by six taekwondo grandmasters led by Jun Jee, the president of the GTTF, the highest assemblage of the Korean martial creation signifier successful its accepted style. The accepted signifier differs from the Olympic taekwondo by focusing much connected broad self-defence, manus techniques (punches and blocks), and debased stances.
Mr Singh earned the 5th Dan successful October 2024, but could not spell to the South Korean superior to person it owed to the taste struggle successful Manipur.
The Seoul-headquartered Sangrok World Taekwondo Academy, which functions nether the World Taekwondo Federation and has 70 branches crossed the globe, lauded Mr Singh for his dedication and publication to the martial creation form.
“He has played a pivotal relation successful spreading taekwondo successful assorted parts of India,” the academy’s method director, Grandmaster Chang Seong Dong, said.
Mr Singh, 62, started practising taekwondo erstwhile helium was 16 and founded the All Assam Taekwondo Association successful 1982. He was 1 of the pioneers successful the promotion of taekwondo successful Manipur.
He was besides recognised successful the aboriginal 1980s arsenic a cardinal fig successful popularising the martial creation arsenic a athletics and forming the Taekwondo Federation of India.
