Taekwondo Cooperative (TKD Co-op) is an autonomous association of taekwondo athletes united voluntarily around the world to meet their common needs and aspirations of conducting and participating in more amateur taekwondo competitions both locally and globally. The world’s first TKD Co-op was established in Seoul, Korea (South) in 2018.

The Founders of TAC believe that the demands of the world’s amateur taekwondo athletes for interacting with a more diverse group of fellow athletes and participating in taekwondo sparring matches (‘겨루기 [kyorugi]’) beyond their own geographic vicinities have now grown to the point that they deserve to have the world’s first league of amateur
taekwondo athletes organized in the form of ‘cooperative’, which enables them to become a member of local and global pools of their fellow taekwondo athletes who share the same aspiration towards conducting and participating in periodic competitions to be organized by their regional Co-ops or the national / world union of Co-ops.