PHOTO: Participating at the first iACT conference in 2015. From left: Master Je Gyoung Kim, 1992 Korean Olympic heavyweight gold medalist; Master Byeong Cheol Kim, 1992 Korean Olympic featherweight gold medalist; Master Patrick L. Thimangu; Grandmaster Yong Chin Pak, professor emeritus Iowa State University; and Grandmaster Alexander Choi, of Union...

It’s not a big secret: Taekwondo dojangs around the world have for years have been losing adult students and the bulk of taekwondo schools here in the United States and Korea now mainly cater to children, in some as young as three. Getting more children to learn taekwondo is a...