Referees having a rest-up in Rotorua after the Oceania Championships held in Auckland, New Zealand. The background is the “green lake” in the hot springs of Rotorua. The International Referees include from left Nick Jakovidis (Victoria), Masoud Emamy (USA), Dennis Ting (Malaysia), Kim Seng (WA, Mandurah) and Raffaele DiRenzo (WA, Morley).
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ATA-WA Head Instructors., Kim Seng and Raffaele DiRenzo at the 2006 Oceania Taekwondo Championships held in Auckland, New Zealand. Kim Seng (seated 1st left, Referee Director for the championships) and Raffaele (seated 1st right) are pictured with the other International Referees and officials of the Oceania Taekwondo Union. |
Aleisha Vincent at the 2006 Australian Poomsae Selections Trials for the 1st WTF World Poomsae Championships.
Her first competition event since gaining her black belt.
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The Kukkiwon. Raffaele DiRenzo visited the Kukkiwon, World Taekwondo Headquarters for the first time in January 1998 on the occasion of the international referee refresher course. The kukkiwon was built in 1971. Kim Seng also visited Kukkiwon for the same International Referee Refresher course and takes a picture with fellow International Referee, Darius Nowicki from Poland inside the Kukkiwon training hall, which is large enough to lay out 2 full sized sparring competition courts, with room to spare. |
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The Australian Taekwondo Academy in WA was founded by Mr Sok Pong Kim in 1975. Sadly he passed away in April 1999, but not without leaving a legacy for his students to continue after him. This article, reproduced from an article written by Kim Seng in 1992 and titled "The West's Taekwondo Pioneer" as a tribute to him.
Mr Sok Pong Kim, 7th dan Chief Instructor, is the first Korean to start Taekwondo in Perth Western Australia. He opened the Kim Australian Taekwondo Academy in 1975 with the one single gym and the Academy has now grown to more than 50 branch clubs in most parts of the Perth Metropolitan and country areas of Western Australia.
The Academy teaches the basic elements of Taekwondo as being martial art first and foremost, then, self defence, Olympic sport, fitness (physical as well as mental) and the cultivation of discipline. Mr Kim believes in imparting his learnings and experiences in his 40 years in the art and sport of Taekwondo to all Academy members. There have been well over 10,000 members in WA who have learned Taekwondo through Mr Kim and the network of the Academy Instructors. Mr Kim has graded more than 600 black belts in WA since 1975. Seven of Mr Sok Pong Kim's students, six to 4th dan and one to 5th dan in the last 5 years. Mr Kim was promoted to 7th dan in 1981. (footnote: Mr Kim was 8th Dan kukkiwon at the time of his death).
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