Tong-Il: Breaking Boards, Bricks, and Borders

Synopsis:

A portrait of goodwill, TONG-IL: BREAKING BOARDS, BRICKS, AND BORDERS is a feature length documentary film about a man’s journey to unify his divided country of Korea and bring cultural understanding across battling political borders through the martial art of Taekwon-Do. With the international backdrop of the Six-Party Talks and in the wake of a nuclear stand-off between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the international community, particularly the United States of America and the Republic of Korea (South Korea), Grandmaster Jung Woo-Jin and a team of Taekwon-Do martial artists sponsor a delegation of eighteen North Koreans on a five-city thirteen-day performance tour of the United States. October 04, 2007, marked the first time in history that North Koreans had stepped foot into America for a cultural exchange that spanned this amount of time and distance. TONG-IL takes us through Grandmaster Jung’s life and on the incredible Goodwill Tour that awed spectators and warmed the hearts of those who were considered enemies.

 

Our Moral Armor: The Taekwon-Do Journey

Synopsis:

In OUR MORAL ARMOR: THE TAEWKON-DO JOURNEY we begin in South Korea, travel to North Korea, and traverse continents to uncover the much debated history of the world’s most popular martial art. From hundreds of hours of new footage, dozens of interviews with the most notable and important figures in TKD, logs of rare archival film, photos, and documents – no stone is left unturned.

 

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