New WTF Referee Uniforms
By WTF
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Now it's official: WTF International Referees will get a new uniform. Kyorugi Referees bid farewell to the century-old yellow pants and jackets. For Poomse Referees this new blue outfit is the first they will ever wear.
A WTF commission has decided about the new design a short time ago and this is how the new Referee uniforms will look:
The Executive Council of the WTF is scheduled to decide on the new uniforms for official approval on July 24, 2006 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on the occasion of the 6th WTF World Junior Taekwondo Championships.
It would mark the first change to the design of referee uniforms for gyeorugi competitions since the establishment of the WTF in 1973.
Pending the Executive Council’s approval, the new referee uniforms for gyeorugi competitions will be used as early as at the 1st WTF World Cup Team Teakwondo Championships scheduled for Sept. 14-17 in Bangkok, Thailand.
The newly designed costumes for international poomsae referees will be used for the first time at the 1st WTF World Poomsae Taekwondo Championships in Seoul on Sept. 4-6, 2006.
International referees of the WTF have long called for the change to the WTF’s decades-old yellow uniforms.
The referee uniform for gyeorugi competitions is composed of a jacket and a shirt of both sky-blue color, a matching blue tie and trousers of deep navy blue, while the uniform for poomsae competitions consists of a deep-navy-blue jacket, an ivory shirt, a purple tie and gray trousers.
Able Fashion, a Korean company in downtown Seoul, produced the new uniforms.
The WTF’s ad-hoc committee on referee uniforms made a final approval of the new designs of referee uniforms on June 7, 2006, at their meeting at the headquarters of the WTF.
Among the members were Mr. Eui-min Ko, chairman of the WTF Technical Committee; Mr. Hong-ki Kim, chairman of the WTF Refereeing Committee; and Mr. Manuel Colmenero Firvida, member of the Refereeing Committee.
For further information on the uniform manufacturer, you can contact Mrs. Sun-mi Lim of Able Fashion at 82-(0)16-703-2071 or soojung617@hanmail.net. The company's fax number is 82-2-771-3696.
