태권도, 온두라스 공립 초등학교 정규과목 채택…중남미 최초<br /><br />Honduras has become the first Latin American country to add taekwondo to its public elementary school curriculum.<br />According to the South Korean embassy there,… the martial art form has been adopted as a mandatory subject for students of that level.<br />The classes, taught by local masters rather than Koreans, will be held once or twice a week... for about 1-thousand-8-hundred students at 15 elementary schools,… including 12 in the capital..., Tegucigalpa. <br />Taekwondo has become an immensely popular sport in Honduras, second only to soccer.