Foundation. I guess not many visitors in the off season come to
Kukkiwon. The whole facility was vacant. We saw a couple cleaning ladies
leaving the building when we arrived. All the doors were open, so we
went in to see the gym. It was a bit smaller than I expected. If it were
not for Kukkiwon being painted on the wall behind the judges seats, I
would have thought this was just a local arena. There were 3 teen boys
that showed up at one point, looking around. As is usually the case when
we meet local Korean kids that know only a little english, they use the
one word they know well, "Hello" to which I reply "Anyong-ha-sayo". And
as usual they act surprised that I know Korean for hello. Then the same
boy says "Taekwondo!" with a thumbs up gesture. Then he demonstrated a
well executed head high front kick. I nodded approval and gave a thumbs
up. I was still a bit stiff from the long walk to demonstrate any moves
I know. We moved on.
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