Kim Joon-tae (

Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ...

: 김준태) is a South Korean

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast kicking techniques. T ...

practitioner. In 2009, he finished in 1st place in the Korean trials for the World Championships and became a member of the South Korean national taekwondo team for the first time in his career. At the

2009 World Taekwondo Championships The 2009 World Taekwondo Championships are the 19th edition of the World Taekwondo Championships, and were held at Ballerup Super Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark from October 14 to October 18, 2009.Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

, Denmark, Kim won the gold medal in the lightweight division (-74 kg). In the semifinal match, he beat 2005 world champion

Mark López Mark López Mendieta is an American taekwondo practitioner. Mark represented the United States in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. He advanced to the men's -68 kg Gold Medal Match where he lost to Korea's Tae ...

7–5, landing three-point head kicks twice in Round 2.

References

Living people South Korean male taekwondo practitioners Year of birth missing (living people) World Taekwondo Championships medalists 21st-century South Korean people {{SouthKorea-taekwondo-bio-stub